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Climate activists are calling out Shell for partnering with popular video gamers and online youth influencers to promote fossil fuels to a younger generation.
The oil giant, which in July reported quarterly profits of more than $5bn (£3.9bn), worked with Fortnite creators and paid popular gamers on multiple platforms to showcase its “ultimate…
Spanning most of the last century, the Chilean writer Benjamin Labatut’s stunningly propulsive new novel, The MANIAC, presents as a triptych about three (real) scientific prodigies whose gifts lead them down the path to madness, and our world to a newly perilous place.
With The MANIAC, author Benjamin Labatut dives into…
Open this photo in gallery: The Nio booth at the Auto Shanghai 2023, on April 19.QILAI SHEN/The New York Times News Service
Nio, a Chinese electric car company that competes with Tesla, employs 11,000 people in research and development, but sells a mere 8,000 cars per month.
China’s EV threat: A car…
Hong Kong photographer Billy H.C. Kwok was eight years old when the United Kingdom handed over control of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Growing up, Kwok witnessed British influence wane and China’s control grow. He has also watched the freedoms promised to Hong Kong under the principle of “One Country, Two Systems” ground down before his eyes, “at first slowly and now all at once,” as he…
A picture showing two female Chinese athletes which makes an unintentional reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre appears to have been censored on social media in China.
Gold medal winner Lin Yuwei was being embraced by Wu Yanni after the 100m hurdles final at the Asian Games when their race numbers formed ’64’.
Daily roundup of research and analysis from The Globe and Mail’s market strategist Scott Barlow
BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic detailed the effects of rising rates on the domestic housing market,
“We argued after the latest Bank of Canada pause that it wasn’t going to have the same positive impact on the housing market as…
Russia plans to ban VPN services from all app stores across the country in 2024, a Russian Senator has confirmed.
Short for Virtual Private Network, VPNs are security software that both encrypt internet connections and spoof users’ IP addresses to grant them access to geo-restricted content.
Russia VPN services to be banned in…
Didi Tang, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the world, China’s Xinjiang region is notorious, a place where ethnic Uyghurs face forced labor and arbitrary detention. But a group of visiting foreign journalists was left with a decidedly different impression.
The U.S. warns of a Chinese global disinformation campaign…
Open this photo in gallery: China’s Yuwei Lin reacts after winning the women’s 100m hurdles final with second placed China’s Yanni Wu.DYLAN MARTINEZ/Reuters
Seconds after she surged to victory in the 100m women’s hurdles at the Asian Games this week, Chinese runner Lin Yuwei embraced her teammate Wu Yanni, to roars of delight…
A bullet mark is seen on a glass at the luxury Siam Paragon shopping mall after Thai police arrested a teenage gunman who is suspected of killing foreigners and wounding other people in a shooting, in Bangkok, Thailand, October 4, 2023.
Thai teenager faces murder charge over mall shooting spree…
