Memes, Tweets, Snark Are the FDA’s New Public Health Weapons
When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a National Football League game in January, dozens of Twitter trolls quickly blamed it on Covid-19 shots.
When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during a National Football League game in January, dozens of Twitter trolls quickly blamed it on Covid-19 shots.
Heathrow Airport’s security, engineering and firefighting staff represented by the Unite Union will next week begin balloting for strikes, adding pressure to UK’s transport network which has been hit by a wave of industrial action.
It’s been nearly a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, but shoppers in Moscow can still get ahold of Activia yogurt and Oral-B electric toothbrushes and L’Oréal serums. Some products are left over from the days before President Vladimir Putin sent troops across the border, but many goods continue to be supplied by American and European companies with outposts in the pariah state.
After the pandemic brought the health service to its knees, a host of doctors and scientists and politicians are trying to make it fit for the future.
UK wage and inflation data this week are likely to support arguments from Bank of England policy makers who want to keep raising interest rates, adding to the quickest surge in borrowing costs in three decades.
Nigeria’s move to outlaw high-value notes is the best thing that’s happened to mobile-money operators in Africa’s biggest economy.
The UK government wants landlords to plug energy-wasting leaks from their properties by 2025 in the drive toward conservation, yet the mandate raises the potential for a £19 billion tab that would inject more volatility into the real estate market.
New Zealand is stepping up preparations for a powerful cyclone that is forecast to drag across its North Island over the next few days, two weeks after the country’s largest city of Auckland was pummeled by a summer storm.
Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party is expected to suffer a setback in Sunday’s election in Berlin in what would be a blow to the chancellor and SPD Mayor Franziska Giffey.
This week could bring more insight on how the embattled Adani Group plans to reorganize its debt as well as welcome signs that some central banks in the region are getting on top of inflation. And earnings from miners and tech companies may help clear the picture on how China’s reopening is doing.