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Records are made to be broken
A multitude of records have been shattered on and off the field. For the first time Germany were knocked out in the group stage and USA failed to win at least a bronze, losing in the last 16.
10 things we have learned from the Women’s…
Open this photo in gallery: The Barbie Dream Suite at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal will launch on Aug 24 as part of the The Barbie Dream Experiences collaboration by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and Mattel.Handout
This week’s style news, buys and curiosities.
Style news: A Barbie hotel room in Montreal,…
Open this photo in gallery: Fishing trawlers in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, India on July 31, 2015.Shailesh Andrade/Reuters
The world is undergoing a paradigm shift, both politically and economically. This article is the third in a four-part series that examines several changes, including the opportunity afforded by the…
While there’s still a few weeks left of the summer holidays, as we get closer to September thoughts inevitably turn to the new school term.
Kids these days will be returning to schools that have fully embraced the digital era, but back in the ’90s things seemed a lot…simpler.
22 'must haves'…
I was recently at my foundation’s summer camp where educators train children in exercise, nutrition and personality development. I noticed that the guests regularly looked excitedly at their mobile phones. They wanted to know what the score was. That morning, Germany were playing against South Korea and everyone felt something is at stake…
Mountain treelines are rising in response to the climate crisis, a study has found.
Scientists from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, used remote sensing to map the highest points of patches of tree coverage on mountains.
Mountain treelines are rising due to climate crisis, study finds comes via…
August 19, 2023
A few days after hosting the second Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg at the end of July, Russian President Vladimir Putin called a cabinet meeting.
At that meeting, he said that Russia and four North African countries — Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia — were working on a free trade area that…
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Companies Revenue declines for fourth straight quarter
Lenovo sees PC demand recovering in late-2023
Shares fall as much as 6%
HONG KONG, Aug 17 (Reuters) – China’s Lenovo Group (0992.HK) on Thursday posted a worse-than-expected 24% fall in revenue for the April-June quarter, hit by a prolonged slump in global demand for personal computers.
The Covid-19 pandemic marked the finest hour for India’s pharmaceutical industry, which worked round-the-clock for an unprecedented production of drugs and vaccines, ensuring their supply across the globe which in turn helped India burnish its reputation as the ‘pharmacy of the world’.
India’s Pharmaceutical Sector: From an Import-Dependent Sector to a…
Raising concerns regarding the financial crisis triggered by the downturn in China’s real estate market, Chinese investment firm Zhongrong Trust, which managed USD 87 billion worth of funds for corporate clients and wealthy individuals as of the end of 2022, had failed to pay the interest and principal on several investment products,…
