India’s youth are confident that they’re ready take on the automation trend. According to a new survey of more than 1,000 young professionals, most millennials…

This week, business leaders convened in Philadelphia for the annual Conscious Capitalism conference, built around the idea that it’s possible to serve shareholders and do…

After a 93-day blackout, internet service has been restored to English-speaking regions in Cameroon. President Paul Biya ordered the restoration of internet services in the…

Marvel found its directors for its first female-driven superhero movie, Captain Marvel. After meeting with several prospects, many of them women, the Disney-owned studio reportedly…

Blood from umbilical cords may be medicine’s fountain of youth—at least for mice. The blood from the cord that connects fetuses to their mothers during…

In 2015, Russia began requiring internet companies to store Russian users’ personal data inside Russia itself—or else be blocked. The measure, part of a broad…

Rastafarianism is a religion, an idea, a sociopolitical movement, and an international pop culture phenomenon. For adherents, it’s a black-power Abrahamic faith with a reverence…

The White House has called for an investigation into whether the US is in peril due to an over-dependence on foreign steel. The move could…

“Climate change is no longer a matter of science,” a coal company executive recently told me. “It is a political and social reality.” Even though…

Legal pot businesses are still something of an oxymoron in the US. They exist, and are authorized in states where marijuana has been legalized medicinally…

Software may be eating the world, but some industries have been off the menu. Now, international shipping’s time has come. The UN estimates at least…

Fifteen-year-old students in the Dominican Republic are more likely to say that they’re very satisfied with their lives than in any other country. This finding…

For a long time, investors have considered the biggest risk to the status quo in France’s presidential election to be far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.…

Eddie Liu, a 47-year-old engineer in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guanghzou, began teaching his son English before he could even speak. Now 13 years…

Donald Trump’s message to bring jobs back to America has been loud and clear, but by no means is it new. With the rise of…

Standard operating procedure in the apparel industry goes like this: Make clothes, and then sell them. It can take weeks, if not months, to manufacture…

A rare, perfectly preserved, modernist home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is for sale in Minnesota. Listed by the original owners, retired radiologist Paul Olfelt…

It’s great to talk straight. But life is complex, and logical articulations can often be inadequate, failing to express existence’s vastness, mysteries, and possibilities. In…

In Iran, homosexuality is a crime, punishable with death for men and lashings for women. But Iran is also the only Muslim country in the…

British prime minster Theresa May is fed up with a bickering parliament. To put her opponents in their place, today she announced a surprise snap…

For years, China has groomed landlocked Yunnan province in its southwest to be the country’s strategic bridgehead into Southeast Asia, building highways and rail lines…

The deadline for filing 2016 tax returns in the US looms today. And it’s closely followed by Tax Freedom Day: April 24 will mark 31%…

Cayenne, French Guiana The Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana—a tiny territory wedged into the peak of South America between Suriname and Brazil—hosted unexpected…

Dan Rooney, who died yesterday at age 84, was the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team and former US ambassador to Ireland. His most…

In the last two years, 135 coal power plants in the US have shut down. Dozens more are due to be decommissioned. To Curtis VanWalleghem,…

The semi-autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia signed a 30-year concession agreement with the Dubai-owned P&O Ports firm in early April, to develop and…

“Your shell belongs to them. Your ghost is yours.” Those are the last words from cyberterrorist Kuze to Major in the Hollywood blockbuster Ghost in…

Since late last year, northern Nigeria has been subject to an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis, with nearly 3,000 cases recorded—including 366 deaths. Zamfara, the worst-hit…

Kingsley Azieh Che, from Cameroon, is known around Guangzhou as the “King of suits.” He owns a mens suit factory as well as a paper…

A few decades ago Wang Wei was personally lugging suitcases and backpacks across China’s southern border, trying to make his fledgling Hong Kong-based courier business…