Global News
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Back from the dead, VHS tapes trigger a new collecting frenzy
At a sale by Heritage Auctions in June, a "Back to the Future" videocassette went for $75,000, while "The Goonies" and "Jaws" copies were sold for $50,000 and $32,500, respectively
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, dead at 67
Abe was a sprightly 52 when he first became prime minister in 2006, the youngest person to occupy the job in the postwar era. He was seen as a symbol of change and youth, but also brought the pedigree of a third-generation politician groomed from birth by an elite, conservative family
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Global effort to police 'greenwashing' begins to take shape
One in three of the world's 2,000 largest public corporations have now set goals to become carbon neutral or emissions-free by mid-century or sooner. But with such self-set deadlines and varying definitions of what going "net-zero" actually means for a company, greenwashing is on the rise
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US abortion ruling threatens access to arthritis drug
An unforeseen consequence of overturning Roe v Wade is thwarting access to methotrexate, a drug which tempers inflammation and is commonly used against autoimmune conditions including inflammatory arthritis, psoriasis and lupus. It can also sometimes, thought not frequently, be used in medical abortions
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Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe shot
Local media including national broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency said the former prime minister appeared to be in "cardiorespiratory arrest", a term often used in Japan before a feared death can be officially confirmed by a coroner
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The jumbled dream of US chips
A global shortage of computer chips had stalled the manufacturing of cars, computers and even dog-washing machines. But there are now signs the shortage of chips—the teeny parts that function like the brain or memory in everything electronic—is ending
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How TikTok became a bestseller machine
Now one of the commanding forces in adult fiction, #BookTok has helped authors sell 20 million printed books in 2021, and is not dominated by the usual power players in the book world such as authors and publishers but by regular readers, many of them young, who share recommendations and videos of themselves talking about the books they love, sometimes weeping or screaming or tossing a copy across the room
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SpiceJet pulled up, may face legal action after run of air safety incidents
More than half a dozen air safety incidents were reported in the airline in the past two months, and SpiceJet, which holds nearly 10 percent of India's domestic market, has "failed to establish a safe, efficient and reliable" service, the DGCA said
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How melting glaciers are threatening Pakistan's north
Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles. Rising global temperatures linked to climate change are causing the glaciers to rapidly melt, creating thousands of glacial lakes
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Food, energy price spikes since March push 71 million into poverty: UN
The rise in the developing world's poverty rates over the past three months "is drastically faster than the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic," UNDP said, blaming the price surges in part on the war in Ukraine
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Ben & Jerry's sues parent Unilever to block distribution in Israeli settlements
The ice cream company, known for its political activism, took the unusual step seeking an injunction, saying that the legal action was "essential to ... protect the brand and social integrity Ben & Jerry's has spent decades building"