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Coronavirus lockdowns over the last year have had an outsized impact on some of the world’s eating habits, including a desire to eat more he...

When chanting slogans counts as sedition, tweeting counts as foreign collusion, placing ads in foreign publications counts as secession, and...

The year 2020 brought the global economy to a screeching halt, but it proved to be an astonishingly good year for India’s richest billionair...

Wonder Woman 1984 catapulted the entertainment industry into an era in which big-budget Hollywood films can debut on streaming platforms. Bu...

Every year, nearly 4 million women give birth in the US. Of those, only about 17% can take paid time away from work to recover and care for...

China’s youngest e-commerce giant is at the center of a firestorm.Pinduoduo, a US-listed company known for its low-priced products, is facin...

What does community mean for remote workers? Although it took a pandemic to shift remote work from an abstract idea to a common practice, re...

India’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine became more attractive to the government’s expert committee in just one day.Covaxin, jointly developed by...

India’s constant internet blackouts have taken a huge toll on its economy. National shutdowns left Indian businesses without hundreds of hou...

India’s stock markets went through extreme volatility in 2020.In March, when the markets witnessed their worst-ever sell-off, very few could...

“Is a new debt crisis mounting in Africa?” “Africa’s debt crisis hampers its fight against Covid-19” and  “African nations sitting on debt v...

A group of about 250 workers at Google parent company Alphabet have formed a union open to all workers, even contractors.Unions typically do...

Air travel in the US, which took its biggest dive since World War Two at the beginning of the pandemic, is gathering steam.The number of pas...

To mitigate health inequities and promote social justice, coronavirus vaccines need to get to underserved populations and hard-to-reach comm...

Prosecutors chasing drug dealers, human traffickers, and money launderers of all stripes find their trail runs cold in the same places: Dela...

On the morning of Dec. 27, in a suburban hospital north east of Paris, 78-year-old Mauricette (links in French) became the first person in F...

Senior officials at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum say the government is set to rescind an agreement with a US-based self-descri...

On the first work day of 2021, the New York Times broke the startling news that more than 200 Google engineers had unionized with the Commun...

US stock market investors are an optimistic bunch right now, betting that vaccines and government spending will inoculate the economy from t...

India’s thousands of protesting farmers have finally grabbed the attention of the country’s richest billionaire. On Monday (Jan. 4), Mukesh...

H-1B aspirants have a to-do list for president-elect Joe Biden when he takes office in January, and it can be summed up in four words: Undo...

India’s drugs regulator has finally granted approvals to two Covid-19 vaccines, nearly a month after the drug makers filed an application.At...

Starting a new job remotely is tough in normal times, let alone during a pandemic. I know—I experienced it firsthand.When I joined Quartz in...

After a historic, deeply unusual year, a lot remains uncertain about 2021 and what it will bring for major economies around the world. Here...

Lunar New Year is usually a popular time for dining out as families spread out all over China get together to celebrate. But on the eve of t...