Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Belarus for a rally by the president’s election rival, despite an escalating crackdown on the opposition. More than 60,000 people demonstrated in the capital, Minsk, according to one human rights group, Viasna. The rally was organised by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who is standing […]
The US space agency’s Perseverance robot has left Earth on a mission to try to detect life on Mars. The one-tonne, six-wheeled rover was launched out of Florida by an Atlas rocket on a path to intercept the Red Planet in February next year. When it lands, the Nasa robot […]
Prosecutors in the US city of St Louis have said they will not bring charges against a former police officer who shot dead a black teenager in 2014. The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson triggered weeks of protests. It also led to the founding of the Black Lives Matter […]
A US appeals court has agreed to re-hear arguments over efforts to drop charges against ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, one of several Trump associates convicted of lying. Flynn, a former three-star US general, was the highest ranking official snared by the special counsel inquiry into Russian meddling in the […]
The coronavirus pandemic is poised to set off trillions of dollars of bank losses, a large chunk of which are forecast to implode at Chinese lenders. Losses at global banks are projected to soar by $926 billion to $2.1 trillion through 2021, according to Standard & Poor’s. Almost $400 billion of […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION Global Economic Disruptions Globalization, automation, and inequality. More than 30 coronavirus vaccines are being tested on humans worldwide, and North Korea just joined the race. On Saturday (Jul. 18), the country’s State Commission of Science and Technology announced government scientists had started on the first stage of […]
American video-sharing app Triller wanted to formally launch in India with a “splash” by the end of this year. But months before the planned launch, the company has already tasted unprecedented success in the world’s second-largest internet market. After the Indian government banned the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok on June 29 over data […]
Indian parents want their kids to have more screen time than they already do. With no clear timeline on when schools would reopen for physical classes in India, parents feel their kids are being given the short shrift with online classes. Nearly 70% of them said their children need to […]
ROM OUR OBSESSION Future of Work Preparing for a labor force that doesn’t yet exist. The coronavirus pandemic has given a certain nudge to the idea of freelance work. This has largely been possible because work-from-home became the rule rather than the exception the world over. Some gig economy workers, […]
FROM OUR OBSESSION Future of Work Preparing for a labor force that doesn’t yet exist. Teleworking is widening income inequality all over the world, according to a new study from the International Monetary Fund. The ability to work remotely has become a make-or-break factor for many workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Unless […]