© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Turkish-flagged bulker TQ Samsun, carrying grain under UN’s Black Sea Grain Initiative, is pictured in the Black Sea, north of Bosphorus Strait, off Istanbul, Turkey July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik/File Photo…
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The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates once again to 5.25%, mirroring similar moves by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank. The fact that the UK is still suffering from high…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The OPEC logo pictured ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria, September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina//File Photo LONDON (Reuters)…
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Throughout the world, governments impose excise taxes on products like alcohol and tobacco to reduce their demand. The South African government has implemented a tax on vaping products for the same reason. Reducing demand is…
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Asteroids are chunks of rock left over from the formation of our Solar System. Approximately half a billion asteroids with sizes greater than four metres in diameter orbit the Sun, travelling through our Solar System…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Students walk on a crowded sidewalk due to scarcity of local transport following shortage of petroleum products in Abuja, Nigeria February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters)…
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The European Union will soon require thousands of large companies to actively look for and reduce human rights abuses and environmental damage in their supply chains. And although it’s an EU law, it will also…
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I am a poor navigator. This is not an easy thing for a field geologist to admit. We need to be able to find our planned area of interest in good time and make our…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Capricorn Sun tanker is moored at Germany’s port of Rostock, Germany, August 5, 2022,. REUTERS/Andreas Rinke/File Photo By Andrea Shalal (Reuters) – The United States remains confident that the Group…
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A provocative Channel 4 satirical programme, The British Miracle Meat, has led to hundreds of complaints to media regulator Ofcom. The mockumentary depicts ordinary Britons facing the cost of living crisis selling thin slices of…
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