Pandemic

The number of journalists registered to attend the annual climate negotiations in Bonn has declined this year, as climate reporters have been let go and media coverage of climate issues falls around the world. Data from UN Climate Change, which runs the two weeks of talks, shows that just 135…

The Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaizen Gaming has reflected on his journey with the company after it announced it has hit a valuation of $10bn.  Speaking at the Athens Tech Festival, George Daskalakis talked the audience through how the company has navigated headwinds from a Greek financial crisis…

Perfectionism among college students has become a public-health crisis, and the shape of our economy is likely to blame, according to new research. Rates of perfectionism have soared among college students in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom over the past 35 years, with especially debilitating forms of…

Freetown - The Ministry of Health (MoH) and the National Public Health Agency (NPHA) have received sixteen Honda motorbikes from the World Health Organization (WHO), with support from the Pandemic Fund, to strengthen public health emergency preparedness and response across Sierra Leone. The handover ceremony took place at the WHO…

The Trump administration’s deep cuts to federal health agencies have become a political liability after a deadly outbreak of hantavirus aboard a cruise ship and the spread of an even more fearsome disease, Ebola, in Africa. At least that’s the way many Democrats see it. They have seized on the…

Peter Murrell bought more than 100 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic-buying during the pandemic. The disgraced SNP chief executive splurged on the essentials as his now estranged wife urged Scots to 'apply common sense' when lockdown loomed in March 2020. Murrell…

With summer around the corner, soaring prices and other complications from the war with Iran are straining the tourism-dependent economies of countries in Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Vietnam. The region's peak tourist summer season is at risk as elevated jet fuel costs coupled with ceasefire uncertainties prompt flight cancellations…

1925 portrait of Maria Branyas. Credit: Wikimedia Commons A remarkable new study of the world’s oldest verified living person reveals a surprising picture of extreme longevity. Maria Branyas lived through two world wars, the 1918 flu pandemic, the Spanish Civil War, and COVID-19. When she died in 2024 at age…

Ben Stiller’s wife Christine Taylor credited the COVID 19 pandemic with rekindling her marriage to Ben Stiller, nearly a decade after the couple first split. Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of the McBride Rewind podcast, Taylor explained that lockdown brought the family back under one roof. “If there’s a silver lining…

For decades, the Fed stabilized the economy with one simple tool: interest rates. Raise them to cool inflation, and cut them to stimulate growth. But after years of massive government borrowing, post-pandemic inflation, and repeated stress inside the Treasury market, that system may no longer work the way Americans expect.…