Iran produced over 28.8 million tons of iron ore concentrate during the first seven months of the current Iranian year (March 20-October 21), according to statistics released by Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO).

Canada’s federal government will spend C$100b ($77b) to kick-start the country’s post-pandemic economy.

The obesity rate among youth aged 10 to 17 in New York stood at 10.7% last year, the fifth lowest percentage among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to new data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Why do some people age faster than others? One potential answer, a new study led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) indicates, is that a mother’s stress prior to giving birth may accelerate her child’s biological aging.

Naela Abu Jibba, 39, a mother of five, is among hundreds of women in Gaza who could not find jobs in an economy on the brink of collapse.

General Motors will not be taking a stake in the electric vehicle company Nikola, and the company said that it was scuttling one of its marquee vehicles, an electric and hydrogen-powered pickup, after GM pulled technological support from the project. Shares of Nikola plunged 24%.

Authorities on Spain’s Canary Islands expect a partial recovery of the archipelago’s tourism industry in 2021 as vaccines and testing allow for travel restrictions to be lifted, but the business will still be far below pre-pandemic levels.

US-based companies Facebook and YouTube are allowing themselves to become tools of Vietnam’s “industrial-scale” attempt to censor information and harass government critics, in an “alarming sign” of how technology giants increasingly operate in repressive countries, Amnesty International said.

Global carbon capture and storage (CCS) capacity grew by a third in the past year, but it was far too slow to meet global climate targets, the Global CCS Institute said.

US President-elect Joe Biden was urged to reject the influence of Big Tech companies on his administration, by 32 antitrust, consumer advocacy, labor and related groups in a letter sent on Monday.