Global News
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Summer heatwave bleaches 91% of Great Barrier Reef: report
It was the first time on record the reef had suffered bleaching during a La Nina weather cycle, when cooler temperatures would normally be expected
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Ukraine's war's geographic reality: Russia has seized much of the East
The prospect that Russia could soon gain complete control over the Donbas region has strengthened, compared with one-third of it before the February 24 invasion
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Renewable energy to grow to new record in 2022: IEA
The record growth would be led by China and Europe, the International Energy Agency said, but may taper in 2023
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Elon Musk says he would lift Twitter ban on Trump
Musk contended that kicking the former US president off the platform "alienated a large part of the country"
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The Pulitzer winner that emerged out of a time of quietness
Inspired by the silence of days spent in lockdown, Raven Chacon, member of the Navajo Nation, began writing "Voiceless Mass," a 16-minute work for ensemble and pipe organ. It won the Pulitzer in Music
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Oil giants are selling dirty wells to buyers with looser climate goals: study
The world's largest energy companies are expected to sell off more than $100 billion of oil fields and other polluting assets to cut their emissions and make progress toward their corporate climate goals. However, they frequently sell to buyers that disclose little about their operations, have made few or no pledges to combat climate change, and are committed to ramping up fossil fuel production
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Social network Grindr going public at $2.1 bn value
Los Angeles-based Grindr expected to raise $384 million when it combines with Tiga Acquisition Corp and becomes Grindr Inc
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Tinder parent takes Google app store war to court in US
The litigation comes as part of an ongoing battle by Match, Epic Games and others to force Google-parent Alphabet and iPhone maker Apple to loosen their grips on their respective app stores
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Russia shells Ukraine's Odessa as US pledges fresh arms for Kyiv
The southern city was hit by a series of missiles Monday, destroying buildings, setting ablaze a shopping centre and killing one person, its city council said, just hours after a visit by European Council President Charles Michel
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All that glitters: How the money-spinning IPL turned cricket into gold
The world's most valuable cricket tournament, now in its 15th iteration, was a pioneer in Twenty20 league cricket. Its success and popularity has spawned copycat competitions in other countries and generated a fortune for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
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Three decades after Pablo Escobar's death, drugs ravage Medellin
Junkies frequent hundreds of sales points dotted around Colombia's second city, which has become the epicenter of the domestic drug trade