World economy
The digital divide could exclude millions
21 Apr 2021
The digital divide could exclude millions of the UK's poorest people, academics warned at the first event of Imperial's new 'SDG of the month' series
US House passes bills to empower undocumented immigrants
26 Mar 2021
The bills once passed into law will help nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, including over 500,000 from India, to gain US citizenship
US to put breaks on new oil and gas exploration
28 Jan 2021
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris take charge of US administration
21 Jan 2021
The 78-year-old Joe Biden becomes the oldest to be sworn in as President of the United States, while Kamala Harris, 56, created history as the first woman to be sworn in as Vice President of the United States
Dubai claims a first with aluminium production using solar power
21 Jan 2021
UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium on Monday said the state-owned aluminium manufacturer was already producing ‘CelestiAL' metal using power supplied by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s 1,013 MW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park south of Dubai
EU, UK hammer out a Brexit deal, days ahead of the deadline
04 Jan 2021
The deal, struck after 11 months of painstaking negotiations, is still short of a trade deal and at best is only a blueprint for Britain’s co-existence with the European Union
White House transition to Joe Biden starts as President Trump relents
24 Nov 2020
Trump said in a tweet on Monday that he was directing his team to cooperate on the transition, allowing federal funds to start flowing to Biden so that he can carry out his transition duties before his 20 January inauguration as the 46th US president
G20 strikes historic debt pact to help Covid-hit poorer countries
20 Nov 2020
A meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on Friday endorsed a common framework for debt treatment beyond debt relief and agreed to continue to focus on supporting vulnerable countries in their fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
Seven dead, several seriously wounded as terror strikes Vienna
04 Nov 2020
The location of the initial shooting was close to Vienna’s Stadttempel synagogue, but the synagogue and office buildings were closed at the time of the attack