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On March 16, eight people were massacred at three different spas in the Atlanta area, six of them older Asian women. The murders highlighted...

The US, home to more oil refineries than any other country, lost its title to China as the world’s largest refiner of raw crude oil in 2020...

LeBron James has already amassed one of, if not the most, impressive on-court careers of any great basketball player. James, a 16-time all-s...

As the Communist Party’s crackdown on Hong Kong merges with its crackdown on Jack Ma’s tech empire, it’s sparking intense worry about the fu...

Shares in gas-guzzling car makers from Volkswagen to General Motors are soaring as they talk up their plans for electric vehicles. While the...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US is sending AstraZeneca doses to Canada and Mexico. The vaccine is not author...

The global economy needs to go electric. Most economists agree that the quickest, lowest-cost way to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions is t...

Even before the disruptive and damaging events of 2020 and early 2021—a global pandemic, a racial reckoning, economic uncertainty, and the m...

The Zulu dynasty has almost been felled numerous times by trials, trysts and tragedies, but has stood steady through the centuries. The larg...

In April 2016, when American electric carmaker Tesla first opened pre-bookings for its Model 3 sedan for Indians, a bunch of prominent tech...

Nike is straining to get its shoes and clothes into the US from the overseas factories that produce them, dragging down sales in its largest...

When I received a text from England’s National Health Service (NHS) informing me that I could sign up to get a Covid-19 vaccine, clicked on...

Kanye West rose to fame as a rapper, but it’s his sneaker and clothing brand, Yeezy, that makes up the bulk of his wealth today. Investment...

The pandemic has hit ride-hailing companies hard, but ride-sharing appears to be healing.Lyft says its ridesharing business last week was at...

More than a decade before today’s surge of space SPACs, one satellite company proved that a merger with a blank check company can indeed suc...

Eighteen founders and CEOs released a letter today calling for an international end to the death penalty, and asked fellow business leaders...

When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly inter...

A global economic slowdown has shrunk the world’s middle-class population and impoverished millions.In 2020, an estimated 131 million people...

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Lumber is in such short supply in the US that its prices have skyrocketed to an all-time high—so much so that the expense of building the av...

On Wednesday (March 17), Tanzania’s vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, announced the death of the president John Pombe Magufuli at age 61....

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowTwo Canadians detained in China get their day in court. Michael Spavor and Michael...

In China, an e-commerce David is gradually overtaking the country’s Goliath.Yesterday (March 17), Alibaba’s e-commerce rival Pinduoduo annou...

India has administered 36.4 million shots of the Covid-19 vaccine to its people. But healthcare experts now worry that these numbers are inc...

Up till September 2020, when Covid-19 cases were at their peak in Maharashtra, Prakash Khambe was particular about staying indoors and follo...