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Making multinationals pay
Will President Biden's push for a minimum global corporate tax rate succeed?
Will Covid decimate India's middle class?
Millions of Indians risk being thrown back into poverty by the latest coronavirus upsurge
Electric vehicles hit the big time
The car industry is preparing to go fully electric sooner than you might imagine
Life after Jack Ma
What next for China's giant tech companies?
Who owns colour?
The ongoing battles between scientists, artists and engineers for the rights to colour
Could an Epic battle take a bite out of Apple?
Can flying go green?
Paying extra to plant trees or stop deforestation may not cut your carbon footprint
The battle for football
Why plans for a European Super League won't go away
The dirty business of old car batteries
Recycling lead acid batteries poses a growing health hazard in many developing countries
What is the real death toll in India?
The chief scientist for the WHO acknowledges the frailty of the official numbers
Who should control the vaccines?
Calls are rising for a waiver of patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines
Hackers in the pipeline
What happened to driverless cars?
Why hasn't the autonomous car revolution happened yet?
Pandemic preparedness
Michael Lewis on how America鈥檚 health system got the Covid pandemic all wrong
Syria: Failed state or narco-state?
How ten years of conflict have destroyed the country's economy
The new inflation threat
Faster price rises are coming, but how bad will it be?
Lifting the burden of malaria
A new vaccine could help eliminate the disease. What would it mean for African economies?
End new fossil fuel development, says IEA
The fight for San Francisco's Chinatown
Amid anti-Asian attacks and Covid lockdowns, it's been a brutal year
Sexual harassment in the workplace
Does it pay for vicitms to complain?
Dogecoin or bust
Will the craze for the cryptocurrency started as a joke end in tears?
Gender and ethnicity: Barriers to business success?
Starting a business is tough, but is it even tougher if you are a minority ethnic woman?
How to be mediocre
Not everyone can be special, so should we embrace our mediocrity?
Goodbye to Malaria?
Family tree DNA data crack cold cases
But booming forensic genealogy industry raises privacy concerns
Are dating apps disastrous for women?
Does gender affect the overall experience of dating apps?
The death of the petrol station
Why electric vehicles mean we will barely need to stop at service stations at all
Lebanon sinks further into crisis
The World Bank declared it one of the worst economic crises since the mid-19th century
A Chinese immigrant living the American Dream
What can Mei Xu's story tell us about the American and Chinese economies?
A baby boom for China?