What David Cameron once called “the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money”, has been in the public eye thanks to his own lobbying on behalf of former billionaire Lex Greensill’s influential finance company.…
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Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning satellites. Large satellite constellations such as…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels 2/2 By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will next week lay out conditions that transport, industry…
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Ghana is among the top two gold producers in Africa. What has caught little attention, however, is the fact that more than 35% of total gold output in Ghana comes from artisanal and small-scale miners.…
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In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of…
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© Reuters. Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles attends a graduation ceremony for The Order of Rio Branco at the Itamaraty Palace, in Brasilia By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s environment minister, Ricardo Salles, told…
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During the lockdown in Lagos, Nigeria, I joined a humanitarian team to distribute food to poor people in the urban slums. The project was launched because food was not available and accessible to millions of…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Crude oil prices fell on Friday but stayed comfortably above $60 a barrel, the market apparently settling into a new range on the back of strong economic numbers from…
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Not all of the migrants hoping to claim asylum in the United States are fleeing Central America’s violence-torn “Northern Triangle” of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, contrary to popular perception. Of the 71,021 asylum-seekers waiting…
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China’s state-run anti-monopoly bureau has tightened its regulations on big tech players, as shown by its recent move against the country’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group. Alibaba was hit with a record antitrust fine of…
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