NFTs or non-fungible tokens first captured the public imagination when a digital collage by an artist named Beeple sold for US$69 million (£51 million) at Christie’s in March 2021. Since then, there has been an…
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Switzerland’s large companies must follow a set of climate-reporting parameters, the Swiss Federal Council ruled on August 18. The seven-member council is effectively the highest office of Switzerland’s federal government. The new reporting principles will…
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2/2 © Reuters. A satellite image shows Hurricane Ida in the Gulf of Mexico and approaching the coast of Louisiana, U.S., August 29, 2021. NOAA/Handout via REUTERS 2/2 By Liz Hampton and Marianna Parraga (Reuters)…
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Since the arrival of COVID-19, empty seats and eerie silences at sports and entertainment venues have highlighted how much fans contribute to live events. Everywhere from the Olympics to the Premier League and the London…
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Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet same-sex sexual behaviour is fairly common — around 2-10% of individuals in diverse human societies…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – To those who know Jerome Powell well, his kicking of the stimulus-taper can further down the road this week will come as no surprise. Anyone who bet otherwise,…
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The world’s central bankers won’t be riding into town to save the world this year. Their annual gathering in the US, at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is taking place online due to COVID-19. But with major…
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released earlier this month sounded a “code red for humanity”. At such a crucial time, we should draw on all possible solutions to combating global warming. About…
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A London-based international court has dismissed a case brought by a firm against Ghana’s central bank, which had argued that the claimant had acted corruptly. Ghana-based payment services firm Sibton Switch Systems bought the case…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – One week, it was bust, and the next, it’s boom. Crude prices finished the penultimate week of August with double-digit gains that overwrote the crash from a week…
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