Category: WORLD

While the food prices are soaring because of the inflation, the price of tomatoes has stayed relatively steady. Since the start of the year, tomato prices in the US have dropped 2% from $1.93 per pound to $1.89 per pound in August. Meanwhile, the food prices index rose 7% in that same timeframe (though tomato…

The NASA agency in the United States has said that it has succeeded in the 1st attempt to destroy a rock (Asteroid) orbiting around the Earth., which has been talked about by the media lately, is feared to crash land to the Earth, which is a great fear for the scientists of the world. Although…

In recent years, the King of Saudi Arabia has been making changes that have been noticed around the world, and now he has started to change the royal family and the positions in the country. appointed the Prime Minister of the kingdom, while his second son Amir Khalid was appointed as the Minister of Defense,…

Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96, having served as head of state for the UK and numerous other countries in the Commonwealth for 70 years—the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Like her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria, she ruled during a period of tremendous social and political change. But Elizabeth presided over the end of…

Barry’s rose to fame as a high intensity interval training (HIIT) fitness craze that combines the treadmill with weight training. Now it’s stepping into a different lane with the launch of indoor cycling, even as Peloton, the bellwether for the format, struggles to find its post-pandemic peak footing. Barry’s new Ride classes are a 50-minute…

The death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8 has triggered changes in the royal family, most notably, Prince Charles is now King Charles III. But her passing has also resulted in modifications in the production of The Crown, the Emmy award-winning series from Netflix. “As a mark of respect, filming on The Crown was…

The costs that go into growing crops are expected to soar this year, according to recent estimates from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), signaling that higher food prices are here to stay. Production costs are estimated to reach $437 billion, up 11% from last year, with fertilizers, which are energy-intensive to manufacture, and pesticides…

The week after Labor Day was meant to be a firm deadline for the return-to-office push at a lot of Wall Street banks and other New York-based firms. But the most recent data from New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) shows that while daily ridership on the subway and trains is generally on an upward…

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Industries has filed a $1.7 billion arbitration case against Adani Transmission. The company informed the BSE yesterday (Sept. 11) that it has filed a 13,400 crore rupees ($1.7 billion) claim before the Mumbai Center for International Arbitration for alleged “breach of terms” of the agreement involving the sale of its power distribution…

The G7 countries are seeking India’s support to enforce the Russian oil price freeze. But Moscow seems to be a step forward. Russia is now ready to supply oil to India at an even lower rate than before, The Business Standard reported today. Marvel has unveiled its “In principle, the question is whether India should support…

The military of Ukraine said that in the past few hours they have recaptured 20 villages that they are fighting against Russia, while the war is going on in the northeast of the country. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, said that now they are concentrating on taking control of the front areas…

Europe’s unprecedented energy crisis will likely escalate as temperatures fall in the winter, so officials are scrambling to conserve as much natural gas as possible. They’re implementing or considering a host of emergency measures, including price caps on Russian gas imports, windfall taxes on energy companies, and mandatory consumption cuts for large industrial users. Some…

As more countries in Africa keep testing 5G networks, their citizens are upgrading from 4G smartphones to 5G-enabled ones, so they can be part of what Big Tech foresees will be the ignition point of the global digital economy. Despite the slow pace of 5G network infrastructure development in Africa, the enthusiasm to be part of…

India lost more than 155,000 lives in road crashes in 2021, the highest ever. There is unlikely to be a major reduction this year. The death of Cyrus Mistry, one of India’s best-known business leaders, yesterday (Sept. 04) made it amply clear that the distinction between the rich and poor is lost in this category of tragedies.…

Cyrus Mistry, the head of India’s Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a former chairman of Tata Sons, died today (Sept. 4) in a car accident near Mumbai. “The accident took place around 3.15 pm when Mistry was traveling to Mumbai from Ahmedabad. The accident took place on a bridge over the Surya river. It seems an…

Duolingo, the US ed-tech firm that specializes in teaching the world how to speak different languages, has now added South Africa’s Zulu language to its catalog. But rather than focusing on exam fees charges on e-learning sessions, it is partnering with local telco Vodacom which will enable its 45 million subscribers access the language training for…

As the popularity of African dishes rises around the world, most of the conversation has focused on their appearance, spiciness, and recipes, more intensely on ownership and appropriation, but barely on how they came about. African dishes have gone global first via the transatlantic slave trade and most recently through migration, social media, and viral…

Still, their ultimate purpose wavered: First the vehicles were part of the Constellation program to return to the Moon, then briefly assigned to visit an asteroid under the Obama administration, before becoming the vehicle of choice for Artemis, now the third and strongest attempt at sending people back to Earth’s nearest natural satellite. During the…

Not only is sexual harassment rampant in the service industry, new research found that workers in these jobs often have a hard time identifying such behavior, suggesting that sexual harassment may be so pervasive that it doesn’t even register as inappropriate. A study from researchers at Cornell University School of Industrial Relations, which is set to…

Aspen Pharmacare’s vaccine production line in South Africa has been idle for months. Last year, its South African subsidiary, Aspen SA Operations, signed a contract with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to produce its covid vaccine, but lack of demand for it has been dramatic. In the first two months, it did not receive a single order.…

The economic impacts of climate change are likely to be more than three times higher than what economists and US government officials have previously expected, according to a major analysis published Sept. 1 in the journal Nature. The “social cost of carbon” (SCC) is a metric used by the government to evaluate the costs and benefits of climate…

California-based Zipline is known for pioneering the delivery of blood and essential health products in Africa using automated drones in Rwanda, Ghana, and Nigeria just this year. Recently, the company began extending its assets to the distribution of items used in agriculture, such as semen for farm animals. In what could one day reshape the future…

The old yellow cabs that whizz around Senegal’s capital city of Dakar are hard to miss. Beckoning at oncoming traffic, passengers compete on street corners to secure themselves a ride. Unlike many other African countries, ride-hailing apps are not yet common in Senegal. Tech has been slow to take off in the former French colony—a…

When he first came into office, almost a year ago, Zambia’s new president was ridiculed by skeptics who called him, “the calculator boy,” for his strong focus on the economy and his background as an accountant. Looking back now, it’s evident that these were the exact skills that Zambia needed to pull it back from…

The US’s life expectancy continued its decline from 2020 to 2021, dropping sharply to 76.1 years. With the latest decline, US life expectancy is now at its lowest since 1996, according to new data (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for Health Statistics. It also means that the gap in longevity…

If Tesla employees want to wear pro-union t-shirts while they do their jobs, the company has no right to stop them. That’s the decision that the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) came to this week, overruling a Trump-era ruling that had given employers more leeway in restricting workers from wearing union apparel. The issue is about a lot…