Jump in non-Covid-19 deaths hit insurers
Life insurance firms have seen a surge in death claims as people delayed getting medical care in the pandemic until it was too late.
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Estée Lauder suspends executive after racial slurs on Instagram
The cosmetic giant has suspended a senior employee without pay after a social media post contained racial slurs and jokes about Covid-19.
Is Russia invading Ukraine and what does Putin want?
Ukraine is now the focus of global attention as Russia sends troops into two breakaway regions in country’s east. Why? And why now?
Kaboom! Putin puts his apologists into a tricky bind
Vladimir Putin claims Ukraine is entirely Russian, torpedoing the arguments of left and right populists who blame NATO for the crisis.
Attack kicks off new superpower struggle
Russia’s audacious military assault on Ukraine is the first major clash marking a new order in international politics.
A new Cold War arrives with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The mistake the West has made for more than a decade is to think Putin can be a reasonable geopolitical partner. He doesn’t want to be part of the global order. He wants to blow it up.
Expat exodus as Covid-hit HK shuts schools
Hong Kong is to close all schools and turn them into Covid testing centres, with the announcement sparking an exodus by expats.
Cleaner a Brazil chess champ
Brazilian Cibele Florencio was 24 when she became a chess champion, no mean feat given she was spending 12 hours a day cleaning houses.
Meta’s Facebook ramps up TikTok rivalry
The social-media giant, facing a number of business challenges, rolls out a raft of new features for advertisers.
Oil prices hit 7-year high on Ukraine
Escalating crisis in Ukraine threatens to disrupt flows of natural resources from Eastern Europe to world markets.
How Putin is outfoxing the West
Russia’s president is in the driver’s seat, and it is his decisions, not ours, that will shape the next stage of this confrontation.
Germany puts Russian gas pipeline on hold
Germany puts a major natural-gas pipeline on hold and traders grow concerned Moscow will withhold gas in retaliation.
Race to save burning Bentley-laden ship
The intensity of the fire has weakened, local authorities and the salvage company say, but the ship is still burning and is too hot to board.
How the US and Europe lost the post-Cold War
Victory bred complacency, neglect of fellow citizens, and a failure to preserve our civilisational values. Now, the crisis over Ukraine has become a pivot in history.
Batman’s new home … Glasgow
The Scottish city is hoping the caped crusader will do for it what Lord of the Rings has done for New Zealand.
UK lifts all Covid restrictions
The government to end free testing on April 1 and remove restrictions this week, including self-isolation for those infected.
Frackers return to abandoned fields as oil spikes
US shale companies are moving drilling rigs back into oil fields that were given up for dead a few years ago, as higher commodity prices make operations profitable again.
Bond funds exodus limits sharemarket losses
As investors yank billions of dollars from bonds amid the prospect for higher interest rates, they have got no where else to go but to put that money into stocks.
‘Pretext for war’: UN condemns Putin
UN Security Council denounces Putin’s recognition of rebel-held areas in Ukraine and his deployment of troops as a gross violation of international law.
Putin’s endgame: unravel post-Cold War deals
Vladimir Putin is determined to redraw the map of eastern Europe, returning it to the Soviet empire of the Cold War years to create a buffer zone around his country.
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