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No more 9 to 5: Employees are coming to work late and leaving early, new data shows
The traditional 9-to-5 workday is shifting to a more flexible 10-to-4 routine, according to a recen…
Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected - it could now turn into the next global pandemic
Mpox's recent history is yet another reminder that an infectious disease in one corner of the world…
PTI
WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
The spread of mpox through certain African countries led the Africa Centres for Disease Control and…
PTI
More focused than any other govt: Bill Gates applauds India’s efforts to tackle malnutrition, awards it an 'A'
However, when discussing India’s education sector, he remarked, "I think it probably would rate its…
COVID-19 pandemic caused global life expectancy to fall back to 2012 levels, erasing a decade’s worth of progress: WHO
The far-reaching consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped humanity’s future in ways we a…
Urgent need to address $4 trillion financing gap to accelerate progress on SDGs, notes FM
Observing that the global South is affected by global uncertainties, she said one in four developin…
PTI
China is hosting African leaders in a lavish display of its global ambition
China influence in Africa's growing amid its intensifying global rivalry with the US.
Tom Porter
FLiRT-ing with pandemic! With a sharp rise in COVID cases, could Singapore be witnessing the start of a global wave?
COVID-19, the unwelcome guest that never quite leaves, may well be in the process of ushering in a …
India's corporate credit quality is getting stronger: S&P Global
S&P Global's analysis reveals that one in three ratings within India now have positive outlooks, ma…
ANI
Global electricity demand is forecast to grow by around 4% in 2024
The world's demand for electricity is rising at its fastest rate in years, driven by robust economi…
ANI
Bitcoin tumbles as risk assets plunge in global market rout
Bitcoin and ethereum dropped amid a global market rout on Monday, fueled by US economic worries fol…
Kelly Cloonan
Markets globally await Fed chair Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole Symposium address later today
The central bankers and markets around the globe will be eying the speech given by Federal Reserve …
ANI
Companies are going bankrupt at the fastest pace since the pandemic
Bankruptcy filings this year are at the highest level in 13 years for this time of year, S&P Global…
Filip De Mott
Cows are now spreading bird flu to each other — here's why that's problematic for humans
Avian influenza H5N1 has spread to US cattle, raising concerns about its potential to infect mammal…
Global markets are starting the week off on a sour note, and Japan is partly to blame
Investors have been borrowing the Japanese yen on the cheap to fund higher-yielding investors. But …
Huileng Tan
11.9 lakh excess deaths in 2020 during the pandemic, 8 times more than official estimates, notes a recent study
Looking at social groups, the researchers found that high caste Hindu groups experienced a life exp…
PTI
Global investments in Indian government bonds firm, attributable to JPMorgan index inclusion
Overseas investments into India's sovereign bonds (or G-Secs) were firm last week with an inflow of…
ANI
Cries are getting louder for emergency interest-rate cuts this week, something that's been reserved for pandemics or terrorist attacks
Friday's jobs report triggered a key recession indicator, prompting calls for an emergency interest…
Ayelet Sheffey
The world is the happiest it's been since the pandemic, according to a new report
The world may be happier than you'd think as people report pre-pandemic levels of positive experien…
Gabby Landsverk
Worldwide tourism and its contribution to global GDP to return to pre-COVID levels this year: WEF study
International tourist arrivals and the travel and tourism sector's contribution to global GDP are e…