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In the 1980s, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings launched heritage tourism as a means to economic development in Ghana. Under his initiat...

Across Africa, as the impact of climate change is increasingly felt by the small scale farmers who dominate the region’s agriculture sector,...

Short selling is a trading strategy based on speculation that a company’s stock will drop in price. If shares rise instead, the investors ar...

Four years ago, two actions US president Donald Trump took soon after taking office effectively cut reproductive health funding for developi...

In some corners of social media, the epic short squeeze on GameStop, the beleaguered video game company, is a David and Goliath battle betwe...

Covid-19 has been a paradox for US hospitals. They have been both overstretched in some departments, and rendered idle in others, and althou...

Video game usage is surging to record highs, enriching game developers and console makers, and boosting sales for e-commerce platforms. Just...

As traders on Reddit’s WallStreetBets channel extol each other to send GameStop shares into the stratosphere, questions are growing about wh...

It’s no surprise that the world of meme-driven stock speculation and the “new space” business have significant overlap.Market watchers have...

The year 2020 was good to Apple. In the last three months alone, covering Apple’s fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 26, the company recorded m...

Levi’s, the global leader in denim, sees a bright future in sweatpants.For years, the company has been adding more stretch to its jeans so t...

Joe Biden has started delivering on his campaign promises to immigrants on the coveted H-1B visa.On Jan. 25, the newly appointed American pr...

In mid–November, Fage138 bought shares of GameStop, a staple mall tenant that sells electronics and gaming merchandise. The shares cost $13...

Conventional wisdom holds that cleaning up a company’s environmental record is more expensive than paying fines, settling with plaintiffs, o...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the dynamics of many industries around the world. While some businesses are struggling to stay relevant, o...

Despite prime minister Narendra Modi’s lofty ambitions about electric vehicle adoption (EV) in India, the union budget for 2020 did not do m...

Earlier this month, China published seven pages of draft legislation aimed at stepping up regulation of the country’s rare earths industry.I...

Seven months after it was suddenly banned in the country, TikTok appears to have run out of doors to knock on in India.The Bytedance-owned c...

Almost 10 months to the day after the UK first imposed a national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, British prime minister Boris J...

Last March, US senators Dick Durbin, a Democrat representing Illinois, and Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, introduced a bill call...

US president Joe Biden signed a stack of climate-related executive orders on Jan. 27, rewriting federal policies on everything from national...

The decision of big brands and banks to pull money from Republican politicians who agitated against the outcome of the US presidential elect...

Five African countries: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Sudan, and Niger, are among the world’s top 10 nations to be the worst affected...

The pandemic means we have fewer places to go, but that’s not stopping people from getting glammed up. Described as “surprisingly resilient”...

The American division of L’Occitane International SA, a French maker of beauty products, has filed for bankruptcy due to $15 million in unpa...