Global News
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We're drowning in celebrity beauty brands
The global beauty market, which last year generated nearly $500 billion in sales, is teeming with celebrities, inundating social media feeds with lip gloss, face lotion and, most recently, vibrators, with the promise of plump lips, glowing skin and a better sex life
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Green-Energy race draws an American underdog to Bolivia's lithium
With a quarter of the world's known lithium, Bolivia finds itself among the newly anointed winners in the global hunt for the raw materials needed to move the world away from oil, natural gas and coal in the fight against climate change
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The Nobel Peace Prize that paved the way for war
New evidence shows that Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, had been planning a military campaign in the northern Tigray region for months before war erupted one year ago, setting off a cascade of destruction and ethnic violence that has engulfed Ethiopia, Africa's second-most-populous country
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Many Turks can't afford bread, and bakers can't afford to make it
Food prices have soared worldwide during the pandemic, driven by supply chain disruptions, higher fuel costs, global shortages of fertiliser and other factors
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Pfizer's Covid-19 pill works
The pharmaceutical giant which made the Covid-19 vaccine last year claims that its pill was able to stave off severe disease in a clinical trial and may be effective against the new omicron variant of the coronavirus
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SpaceX ignored sexual harassment, former interns say
Three women who interned at the Elon Musk-led space tech company claim they were harassed by other interns and men in senior positions
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From Cardi B to Prince Harry: When did every celebrity become a creative director?
A corporate title once reserved for the heads of fashion houses or the artistic leads at advertising firms is being tacked onto the resumes of actors, singers and models
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Across the world, Covid anxiety and depression take hold—again
Uncertainty bedevils plans. Panic spreads in an instant even if, as with the omicron variant, the extent of the threat is not yet known. Vaccines look like deliverance until they seem a little less than that
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One in 100 older Americans have died in the coronavirus pandemic
Seventy-five percent of people who have died of the virus in the United States — or about 600,000 of the nearly 800,000 who have perished so far — have been 65 or older. For people younger than 65, that ratio is closer to 1 in 1,400
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China conflict: Why the US needs Indonesia
The Biden administration has spent much of its first year in office shoring up support among allies and partners who share Washington's concerns about Beijing but were bruised by four years of Donald Trump
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Kimi Raikkonen's last race
After what will be his 349th start in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, Raikkonen will bow out of Formula 1. This time maybe for good