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Thirty-seven-year-old Pradeep Singh offered a meticulous breakdown of the amount of money he spends to grow rice on one acre of his farm in...

Facebook doesn’t make much money from WhatsApp. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that forcing the company to sell the messaging app—as US pr...

When Blessing Amidu, a Lagos-based geologist, first had the idea for a feature-length animated movie in 2016, she paid a prolific Nollywood...

The early buzz on Apple’s first-ever wireless over-ear headphones, AirPods Max, has largely centered on the eye-popping price tag. At $549,...

DoorDash soared in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange, opening at $182—and handily summarizing a year’s worth of business and finance...

Zimbabwe has become the latest African country to make a move to curb hazardous emissions from old vehicles imported from Japan and to make...

Pantone announced today that 2021 will be all about “Ultimate Gray” and “Illuminating” yellow. This is the second time that the New Jersey b...

Most big companies have at least one woman on their board of directors these days. But research has shown that there needs to be a critical...

Even by 2020 standards, Snowflake’s initial public offering was bonkers—the cloud-computing company’s shares more than doubled in price duri...

???? The Big IdeaThe return of sports has become a benchmark for the return to normal life. Here’s the TLDR to our guide on the great sports...

After a tumultuous few years, the fortunes of India’s pharma companies reversed this year as the Covid-19 pandemic led people to buy more me...

Gene editing has emerged as another treatment option for genetically inherited human diseases including sickle cell disease.Scientists publi...

The pandemic will perhaps be remembered as one of the most complex, near-operatic times in modern history. And true to an opera, young heart...

TikTok’s loss in India hasn’t fully translated into Indian short-video apps gain.Four months after the Indian government banned the Chinese...

The first Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech are being distributed in the UK this week, marking a turning point in the pandemic. As...

A plague is upon us. Businesses are shuttered and layoffs are rampant. The US government is deadlocked over plans to provide economic relief...

For the last 100 years, water in the American west has rarely been priced on the open market. Water rights were bought and sold through priv...

Much faster than most thought possible, Covid-19 vaccines are here. The UK delivered its first shots today, administering the first dose of...

With holiday shopping comes the inevitable returns of gifts and other purchases. Last year, UPS predicted it would handle nearly 2 million r...

Capitalism has been condemned for many of the world’s evils, from massive income inequality, human rights atrocities, to climate change. But...

When Saidgul was around 6 months old this past March, his parents decided to take him to Herat, a city about 80 miles from their hometown in...

Since fast-food workers in New York walked off the job in 2012 to demand higher wages, the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour...

About 18 months ago, Starbucks four-year long foray into South Africa looked like it might have been a step too far. Taste Holdings, the fra...

The UK became the first country today (Dec. 8) to use Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine to inoculate people against Covid-19.Britain first appro...

Ever since The Harvard Business Review declared data science to be “the sexiest job of the 21st century” in 2012, I feel like I have been pr...