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While US president Donald Trump refuses to concede that former vice president Joe Biden won the US election, the CEO of Walmart, America’s l...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to step in to stop the unraveling of a 93-year-old small private bank that could have destabilis...

In February, data showed that, for the fifth year in a row, more Nigerians emigrated to Canada in 2019 than the year before.Another marker o...

Rubber prices are bouncing upwards. Higher rubber demand due to the need for rubber gloves worldwide and rising car sales during the Covid-1...

A massive force is reshaping the fashion industry: secondhand clothing. According to a new report, the US secondhand clothing market is proj...

Just two months ago, a host of global economic experts shared an extremely pessimistic outlook for the future prospects of the Indian econom...

In April, the police stopped a vehicle in Odisha’s Boudh district for violating lockdown norms. Inside it was a 16-year-old girl along with...

As Airbnb plans to make its stock market debut, the effects of the pandemic on its business are coming into focus.In its S-1 regulatory fili...

Over the last decade there has been growing concern that so much of the way health systems are structured across Africa is set up to handle...

The four astronauts now on their way to the International Space Station are marking several firsts—the SpaceX Dragon’s first flight after be...

The right-wing cable TV network Newsmax is enjoying a surge in popularity this month as Donald Trump urges his followers to watch it as an a...

At a time when the US tax base is under stress, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman said there’s one group of workers who shouldn’t have to pa...

On the morning of Nov. 16, American pharma company Moderna released results of a key study for its experimental coronavirus vaccine. The re...

One morning in the fall of 2019, Zach Techner stepped into a heavily woven white beekeeper’s suit, pulled on rubber boots and thick orange g...

The world’s biggest trading bloc is taking concrete shape in Asia and it doesn’t include the US—pointing to a significant challenge ahead fo...

The coronavirus pandemic has shown what public health experts have known for a while: The World Health Organization (WHO), the public health...

The Covid-19 outbreak and the ensuing lockdowns brought the Indian economy to a halt earlier this year. In June, the country’s economy—which...

Africa is on course to add $180 billion or 5.2% of aggregate GDP by 2025 thanks to the rapid growth of its internet economy, says a report f...

The Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California’s Mojave desert has had its ups and downs through the years.Once the world’s largest produc...

On New Year’s Eve, 1962, a 13-year-old named Valery Saifudinov took the stage with his band at a party in Latvia’s capital city Riga, then s...

Last week, voters in San Francisco passed a bevy of new taxes aimed at the top of America’s income brackets. The most striking is Propositio...

For more than two decades, Joel Dinerstein, a cultural historian and professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, ha...

“Cool” is one of those words so liberally used its definition has become fuzzy around the edges. We know shoppers chase it and companies try...

When Nike created the Air Jordan after signing then-rookie Chicago Bulls player Michael Jordan in 1984, it designed the shoe in red and blac...

The day after Diwali brings with it a lull after weeks-long festive rush. And it brings bad air.Indians, already reeling under bad air days,...