American stocks began the year as the envy of the world. Their prices rose by 26% in 2023 and 23% in 2024, compared with 14% ...

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DAKAR, Senegal -- Voters in Guinea will head to the polls on Sunday for the West African nation's first presidential election since the military took power in a 2021 coup, with analysts predicting a ...

Singlehood is on the rise. The impacts of technology in the forms of social media, dating apps, and the availability of AI ...

There’s a record 1.4 billion barrels of crude currently on the world’s oceans, pushing down benchmark prices and sending ...

Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

Food insecurity reaches catastrophic levels: South Sudan enters 2026 with a hunger crisis—28,000 people face catastrophic ...

The US jobless rate picked up again in November, hovering at its highest level in four years, official data showed Tuesday in ...

Health care employers added more than 46,000 jobs in November, accounting for more than two-thirds of the 69,000 private sector jobs created last month. Construction companies added 28,000 jobs.

This is the introduction to Essential India, a newsletter on a vast and complicated country that will increasingly shape the ...