Think of a dangerous cargo, and toxic waste or explosives might come to mind.

But granular cargoes such as crushed ore and mineral sands are responsible for the loss of numerous ships every year. On average, 10 ‘solid bulk cargo’ carriers have been lost at sea each year for the last decade.

Read more at BBC News.

The US ambassador to the UN has urged Iran to "look in the mirror" for the causes of an attack on a military parade that killed 25 on Saturday.

Nikki Haley said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had "oppressed his people for a long time".

She was responding to Mr Rouhani's fierce criticism of the US, in which he blamed it for enabling the attack.

Read more at BBC News.

Seeing the word “yin” tends to conjure its counterpart: yang. Visually, these two represent the complementary aspects of opposing sides of a circle, but in yoga, it’s totally possible to find the two polarities under the same roof, or, er, studio.

Here’s how they differ: Yang-style practices encompass fast-moving flows like the ones taught in sweaty, vinyasa classes. And as you’d expect, yin is, well… so not that. “There are only 26 total yin postures, and while they look similar to yang poses one would take in a vinyasa class, they have slightly different names and intentions,” explains Lindsay Pirozzi, a New York City-based yoga instructor at Y7 Studio. “Since the emotional and energetic layers of the body are the main focus, [yin] practitioners experience a dramatic reduction of emotional imbalances, such as less anxiety, stress, frustration, and depression.”

Read more at Well And Good.

Last year, Apple did something out of character: it introduced the usual update to the iPhone, the iPhone 8, while simultaneously introducing the iPhone X with a flurry of hype. The iPhone X was a total rethinking of the iPhone, with a new gesture system, Face ID unlocking, and an edge-to-edge screen that prompted a wave of app redesigns.

The iPhone X was meant to usher in the future of phones, and it succeeded; its influence (and its notch) are all over the industry now. Apple has gone from being an iPhone company to being an iPhone X company. This year, the iPhone X comes in one of two flavors: the updated, high-end iPhone XS and the midrange iPhone XR, which won’t arrive until next month.

Read more at The Verge.

Have you ever been on a hot streak at work? You're not imagining it, and you're not alone. Researchers have discovered that career hot streaks do indeed happen, and looking at them reveals a few universal patterns.

For the study "Hot streaks in artistic, cultural and scientific careers," published by Nature in July, a team of researchers examined the work of almost 30,000 scientists, artists and film directors to find streaks, or a "specific period during which an individual's performance is substantially better than his or her typical performance." High-impact work was determined by looking at output such as a scientist's most-cited papers, auction prices for artwork and IMDB.com movie ratings.

Read more at CNBC.

Americans may not be so spendthrift after all. According to government revisions released on Friday, U.S. households have been socking away a lot more money in recent years than previously thought. The average saving rate over 2016 and 2017 increased to 6.7 percent from a previously reported 4.2 percent. But there’s a catch: Most of the change came about because small-business owners and other proprietors made more money to salt away, not because workers got bigger wage increases.

Read more at Bloomberg.

Dividend yields can be high for a lot of reasons, and sometimes those reasons make investing in high-yield stocks risky. For instance, dividend yields can swell if share prices fall because a company's on shaky financial ground.

Although there's no way to completely protect yourself from the risk that a company falls on tough times, focusing on companies with catalysts that support dividend payments may improve the odds of picking winners instead of losers.

Read more at The Motley Fool.