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WEF

One of the world’s most elite gatherings says it will be open to all in 2021

One of the last major elite gatherings to take place this year before the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to everything was the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in January. And despite concerns that even global elites will give the shindig a miss, it plans to forge ahead in 2021,…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Polestar 2

Geely’s Polestar to open 20 showrooms in China to compete with Tesla

People look at a Polestar 2 electric sedan displayed in a shopping mall in Shanghai, China May 5, 2020. Picture taken May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yilei SunBEIJING (Reuters) - Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China’s Geely, plans to open 20 showrooms in the mainland, as it prepares for…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Polestar 2

Geely’s Polestar to open 20 showrooms in China to compete with Tesla

People look at a Polestar 2 electric sedan displayed in a shopping mall in Shanghai, China May 5, 2020. Picture taken May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yilei SunBEIJING (Reuters) - Polestar, the premium electric vehicle maker owned by China’s Geely, plans to open 20 showrooms in the mainland, as it prepares for…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

Love the parasite you’re with

Bloodsucker, leech, tick – few things have a reputation worse than parasites. But these biological hangers-on also have a comic cultural history. In biology, a parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food (or other benefits) from (or at the expense of)…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Meritocracy

Broncos stop football to talk about race relations, Floyd

Instead of X's and O's, the Denver Broncos spent Tuesday talking about racial injustice, police brutality and healing a nation rocked by demonstrations over George Floyd's death in Minneapolis on top of the coronavirus outbreak and its economic devastation.Team president Joe Ellis addressed the offense and defense in separate Zoom…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

NASDAQ

Civil unrest pushes US gun stocks to outpace tech’s biggest companies

Big tech might be thriving thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, but the firearms industry is experiencing even faster growth as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests grip the US. Shares in weapons giants Smith & Wessen, and Sturm Ruger & Co have surged since the first BLM rallies on May 30,…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Catalonia

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola still harbours ‘dream’ of coaching a national side

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola still harbours 'dream' of coaching a national side, according to his brother Pep Guardiola has a 'dream' to coach a national side according to his brotherThe ex-Barcelona boss has previously said he would be unlikely to coach Spain The 49-year-old is currently under contract at Manchester City…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Robert Mugabe

Romcom ‘Cook Off’ Delights On Netflix Debut

A romantic comedy about a cooking contest shot in Harare in the last days under Robert Mugabe has been released on Netflix, and Zimbabweans are basking in a rare flash of good news. University of Cape Town graduate Tendaiishe Chitima gives a luminous performance as Anesu in Cook Off. Anesu…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Spanish Flu

How did the Spanish flu pandemic end and what lessons can we learn from a century ago?

A pandemic swept through the US and Europe in 1918 killing, by some estimates, more than 50 million people.It began between January and February in the United States when a flurry of people died after presenting symptoms of headaches, respiratory difficulties, cough and high fever.A few months later, patients in…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

Antibiotics

Data revealing disturbing rates of antimicrobial resistance

(MENAFN - Caribbean News Global) GENEVA, Switzerland — A record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance - marking a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance. But the data they provide reveals that a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant…

bubmagJune 3, 2020

One of the world’s most elite gatherings says it will be open to all in 2021

Geely’s Polestar to open 20 showrooms in China to compete with Tesla

Geely’s Polestar to open 20 showrooms in China to compete with Tesla

Love the parasite you’re with

Broncos stop football to talk about race relations, Floyd

Civil unrest pushes US gun stocks to outpace tech’s biggest companies

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola still harbours ‘dream’ of coaching a national side

Romcom ‘Cook Off’ Delights On Netflix Debut

How did the Spanish flu pandemic end and what lessons can we learn from a century ago?

Data revealing disturbing rates of antimicrobial resistance

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