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Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement—the commitment by almost every country to try to keep global warming wel...

The US International Development Finance Corporation has joined a push into Africa’s rapidly growing data storage market with a $300 million...

The first Covid-19 vaccine to gain emergency use authorization in the US could roll out within days, as Pfizer and BioNTech’s candidate was...

Adobe, the US software company behind Photoshop, says its products can now generate images better than traditional photos.“[Ben and Jerry’s]...

Now in its 16th day, thousands of Indian farmers are holding their ground at massive protests in Delhi.The farmers say these new laws, which...

There’s long been a push for African countries to open up their borders to visitors and many countries have done so to drive tourism and en...

As the Paris climate agreement celebrates its fifth anniversary, the pact’s member nations are taking stock of their progress toward limitin...

Demographic data are important for national development. They are useful in sectoral planning and should influence the direction of governme...

Doctors in India have become the latest group to protest against the Narendra Modi government’s policies.The Indian Medical Association (IMA...

An enduring moment from former US president Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya in 2015 was a quick chat with the founders of home solar power pro...

Walmart is trying to prove its loyalty to India.The Bentonville-based retail major yesterday (Dec. 10) said it will triple its exports from...

In a team atmosphere, conflict can be perfectly healthy—but handling it can be difficult if you don’t have the right norms in place.In our D...

The Paris agreement, the first plan to fight climate change with buy-in from nearly every nation on Earth, was finalized five years ago on S...

Of all the Covid-19 vaccine candidates making their way through the regulatory pipeline, the two from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna are some o...

The great paradox of the vaccines for Covid-19 is that they simultaneously demonstrate that vaccines are lifesaving and necessary, while op...

The US federal minimum wage is becoming increasingly obsolete. In 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia, which account for half of th...

Restoration Hardware’s sales are way up, but the company estimates supply chain issues are preventing millions in unfilled orders for its lu...

Congress may be close to a deal on another coronavirus bailout, but Senate Republican demands for liability protections for businesses remai...

The most important player in recent US space policy wasn’t at yesterday’s uneventful National Space Council meeting. The Federal Communicati...

The inoculation of a 90-year-old British woman on Tuesday marked the start of the UK’s first mass Covid-19 vaccine campaign, and will likely...

On Dec. 2, the US government announced it will seize cotton and cotton products from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) a...

The Covid-19 pandemic has seen many companies pivot to producing personal protective equipment, ventilators, and masks. Now the Indian bull...

Europe produces a lot of IPOs. The trouble is that some of the region’s biggest fish are slipping away to New York.Tech companies founded in...

A concrete Covid-19 vaccine distribution plan is finally taking shape in India.Once a vaccine is available in the country, the government pl...

With the Narendra Modi government hoping to start distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine across India in the coming weeks, airports across the...