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Prakhar Kapoor adopted his first dog back in June, when India began to ease its three-month nationwide lockdown. He named it Marcus,⁠ after...

“He clearly has the makings of a very good dog,” the vet told me, as he wrangled our growling, shivering, Jack Russell-Chihuahua mix on his...

As more African countries record the second wave of coronavirus infections, and some record novel and more infectious variants, African gove...

China’s transformation into the world’s manufacturing powerhouse has been remarkable. When it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2...

Americans are continuing to pamper themselves and their loved ones during the pandemic.Growing interest in skincare and self-care—along with...

Kafue National Park in the heart of Zambia is one of the largest protected areas in Africa. Rivers meander through woodlands, teak forests,...

Chances are you haven’t noticed all the times you used Shopify to buy stuff online. That’s quite a feat for a company now estimated to be th...

When the UK’s Brexit transition agreement with the EU expired this week, some €6 billion ($7 billion) of daily trading in EU stocks left Lon...

Twitter announced on Jan. 8 that it is permanently suspending the personal Twitter account of Donald Trump after concluding that the US pres...

As Fox News fends off challengers Newsmax and OANN in the battle to curry favor with Donald Trump and his supporters, many are wondering if...

It’s easy to think the mayhem of the US election will end with the departure of Donald Trump, who has been condemned by both sides of the ai...

Author, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka has long been forthright about African democracy, especially in his home country Nigeria. He has s...

The world’s buzziest electric car company is now worth more than Facebook.Tesla’s share price has skyrocketed over the past year, as the com...

The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologis...

After the initial excitement following the authorization of the first Covid-19 vaccines, a harsh reality set in. People who want a vaccine...

As the US reels from the shock of watching a violent mob ransack its Capitol, determined to overturn the results of a fair presidential elec...

In an article yesterday, China Daily, Beijing’s state-owned English-language propaganda newspaper, shared what it thought were praiseworthy...

The US set a new daily record for Covid-19 deaths on Jan. 6, reporting the loss of 3,963 lives. So where are the vaccines?Thus far, the roll...

As the dust settled on Georgia’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff races, and it became clear that Democrats would soon control the White House and both...

Without a uniform, enforceable Covid-19 strategy in the US, many workplaces—including the US Capitol—have been left to their own devices to...

Back in 2018, Elon Musk negotiated a controversial pay package (pdf). The Tesla CEO agreed to receive no salary or bonuses in exchange for a...

Epic Games, the American video game and software development company behind the popular video game Fortnite, announced this week it was buy...

It’s official: There will never be another Facebook post from US president Donald Trump.On Jan. 7, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced th...

What is the cost of propaganda, misinformation, and conspiracy theories? Democracy and public safety, to name just two things. The US has re...

Many in the rabid mob who stormed the US Capitol yesterday came armed with a portable and potent weapon: a flag. There were large election b...