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At this point in the Covid-19 pandemic, three vaccine research and development groups—BioNTech and Pfizer; Moderna; and AstraZeneca and th...

Italy is fighting its second wave of Covid-19, and it’s worse than the first. There are more than 35,000 new daily cases, with outbreaks all...

Amid the foreign policy wreckage president Donald Trump will leave for his successor are a pair of scrapped aircraft that underpinned a trea...

This Thanksgiving will see fewer Americans loosening new belts to make room for all the turkey they’ve eaten.That’s because belt sales have...

For nationals of 15 African countries, applying for a US visa is about to become up to 50 times more expensive.A new rule by the outgoing Tr...

‘Tis the season to be jolly—or is it? End of year holidays including Christmas, and in the US, Thanksgiving, are usually a chance to gather...

As a manager who has usually taken over teams that have been struggling in some way, there is something that I’ve consistently had to do: fi...

This month BBC’s Hausa language service which covers northern Nigeria reported a remarkable story of 12 Nigerian police officers being kidna...

After a cash crunch grounded it about 20 months ago, India’s oldest private airline is now all set to take to the skies again. But with new...

Earlier this year, when most Indian businesses were struggling to cope with the slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s largest ed...

The US oil and gas industry has received more than $10 billion from the federal government to cushion losses during the pandemic, according...

There have been growing concerns the very low-temperature requirements for the promising Covid-19 vaccine candidates developed by Pfizer and...

In the global race to eliminate the world’s greenhouse gas footprint, some sources of emissions are easier to fix than others. One of the lo...

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford are still in the race to bring the first Covid-19 vaccine to market.The UK-based drug company ann...

Even as the Black Friday shopping phenomenon has spread around the world, vexing retailers with its proliferating promotions, the day itself...

Whether or not you should travel this Thanksgiving, or even gather at all, comes down to a risk assessment. The truth is, however, that most...

Symptoms of depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no surp...

Since the first case of Covid-19 was identified one year ago, scientists have come a long way in understanding how the virus passes from per...

When much of the US shut down in mid-March due to Covid-19, New York City public schools kept performing one of their most critical function...

When the coronavirus pandemic shuttered offices and prompted millions worldwide to work from home—grudgingly, gleefully, temporarily, or per...

Almost a year ago, the landline phone that Amish Gupta (name changed) had installed at home in 2005 stopped working. It was a recurring prob...

The Narendra Modi government is solving one problem by creating another.At a time when the Indian government’s revenues are low and it needs...

When Lizeth Morales took over her mother’s restaurant eight years ago, she didn’t worry much about its pick-up and delivery business. When i...

Starting in 2017, a group of economists at MIT and other universities set out to study the impact of universal basic income. In rural Kenya,...

No matter what your life looked like before Covid-19, your meals have adapted.Perhaps you’re at home with the family, doing two loads in the...