The U.S. economy and millions of people struggling because of the pandemic are about to get a US$1.9 trillion jolt of stimulating relief. On March 10, the House of Representatives approved a version of President…
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A recent nationally representative survey has shown Australians are willing and able to pull the plug on social media. But it turns out the generation you were born in, as well as your level of…
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2/2 © Reuters. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud attends a meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Riyadh 2/2 DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will take action to deter…
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The longest upswing in the South African economy in the last three decades was when it grew at an average rate of 4% per annum between 1998 and 2008. The 2008 global recession ended this…
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© Reuters. Views of Total Grandpuits oil refinery By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil ticked higher on Wednesday, after falling for two straight sessions, with investors looking ahead to U.S. inventories data due later…
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The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were rescinding their statewide mask mandates and allowing restaurants and other businesses to return to 100% capacity in early March. The moves come while new infection…
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Some 260 million to 265 million years ago, a huge creature called Anteosaurus roamed what is today the African continent. This period was known as the middle Permian – and Anteosaurus was one of its…
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3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Corn is loaded into a truck to be transported for ethanol production in Kelley, Iowa 2/3 By Stephanie Kelly and Hallie Gu NEW YORK (Reuters) – Three ships carrying ethanol…
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CC BY-ND President Joe Biden’s executive order calling for a review of supply chains for critical products put a spotlight on the decades-long decline in U.S. semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Semiconductors are the logic and memory…
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Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women and UNESCO data shows that only about 30% of all female students choose science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at a tertiary level. Four African women…
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