Global News
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Six automakers and 31 countries say they'll phase out gasoline car sales
Electric vehicles continue to set new global sales records each year and major car companies have recently begun investing tens of billions of dollars to retool their factories and churn out new battery-powered cars and light trucks
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India scripted a spectacular Covid-19 vaccination drive. Is it losing steam now?
India's progress represents a significant step toward ending the crisis globally and stands as an important political win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose government came under heavy criticism for failing to prepare for a devastating second wave that struck earlier this year
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US travel ban ends, easing personal frustrations and diplomatic tension
The lifting of the travel ban will allow couples and families to reunite after 18 months and also end a diplomatic tussle between the US and the European Union, where thousands had turned to social media to press governments to end the ban
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How the global chip shortage is creating new power players
Many lesser-known chip makers are increasingly able to choose which customers get how many of their scarce chips
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Americans are flush with cash and jobs. They also think the economy is awful
Workers have seized the upper hand in the labour market, attaining the largest raises in decades and quitting their jobs at record rates
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For long, India held a high moral ground in a region in strife. Is it eroding now?
The shift could open opportunities for China, which has used the promise of investment and access to its hard-charging economy to cultivate stronger relations with its rival's neighbours
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Can carbon capture really save the world?
It is a permanent solution, unlike the planting of forests which can release their carbon by rotting, being cut down or burning in a warming planet
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What to do about Facebook, and what not to do
The company is among the largest collectors of humanity's most private information, one of the planet's most-trafficked sources of news, and it seems to possess the ability, in some degree, to alter public discourse
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Uber is losing big money, as China cracks down on Didi
Since Didi, China's largest ride-hailing company, went public in July, it has faced increasing pressure from Beijing on data security, privacy and worker protections
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Can climate pledges lead to rising prices?
Banks, asset managers and insurers in recent days pledged to use trillions of dollars to achieve net-zero emissions targets as pension funds and other big investors move to divest trillions more from the fossil fuel industry
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Facebook is shutting down facial recognition system after a decade
Facebook plans to shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of more than 1 billion users and effectively eliminating a feature that has fuelled privacy concerns, government investigations, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes