The UAE plans to increase its oil production capacity to more than 5 million barrels per day by 2030, and is constructing a coal fired power plant. Nevertheless, its pitch to host COP28 seeks to elevate its efforts to make climate action a pillar of its domestic and foreign policy […]

The U.S. census has been conducted once every decade since 1790. The first results of the 2020 survey were released in April, and they show that the country’s population grew over the previous 10 years at the second-lowest pace in history, increasing by 7.4%, to 331,449,281 — about half the […]

U.S. stocks are turning in a mixed performance in early afternoon trades on Tuesday with investors largely making cautious moves as they look ahead to the release of the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s April monetary policy meeting for clues about monetary tightening. Activity is mostly stock specific with earnings […]

Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine likely works in teens, according to study results that the biotech plans to submit to regulators next month. The vaccine could become the second OK’d for people as young as 12. Teens in Moderna’s study had similar immune responses as adults who received the shot. See more […]

If a predicted Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) takeover of MGM occurs, the e-commerce and cloud giant will add a massive film and TV library to an already streaming, industry-leading content trove. It also will cement Amazon’s spot at the top of the streaming media industry, where it sits with Netflix […]

Combined m-cap of top five firms up 87% since March ‘20, against 6.2% net profit growth in FY21. India’s top IT companies have shown a hiatus between their performance on the bourses in the pandemic period and earnings growth. The combined market cap of the top five IT companies — […]

While the recent volatility in the secondary markets is a concern, experts believe the sentiment towards IPOs is still buoyant. It is going to be a busy season again for the initial public offering (IPO) market. At least four deals worth a cumulative Rs 4,000 crore is expected to hit […]

In the year since former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, law enforcement killed hundreds of people of color in the United States. While the guilty Chauvin verdict was a victory for the Floyd family, justice never came for other families of people killed by police. Those families, and other […]