Africa’s largest economy has slumped into a recession in the third quarter as oil production dropped to a four-year low.

By Phillip Inman

Tucked against glacier-capped mountains, the Begich Towers loom over Whittier, Alaska. More than 80 percent of the small town’s residents live in the Cold War-era barracks in this former secret military port, whose harbor teems every summer with traffic: Barnacle-encrusted fishing boats, sightseeing ships, sailboats, superyachts and cruiseliner monstrosities. This summer, coronavirus travel restrictions put a damper on tourism in the usually buzzing port. Then came warnings of a potentially devastating tsunami.

Group of 20 major economies should work to provide trillions of dollars in trade financing for developing countries to ensure the recovery of the global economy from the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official with the World Trade Organization said on Saturday.

China’s Ant Group may have been dealt a setback with the shelving of its IPO (Initial public offering) but European banks remain wary that Chinese tech giants may soon be their main competitors.

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.

When he wasn’t chasing stories, Elyas Dayee loved tending to his flowers, cooking with his wife and playing with his toddler daughter, the only survivor of triplets, now bereft that her father has stopped coming home, and too young to understand why.

By Jonathan O’Callaghan

The second deadliest cancer in the world is liver cancer. It is particularly fatal when it affects the bile ducts. It has been studied extensively, with a focus on malignant cells, and there is virtually no effective cure.

A motorist crashed into a house before driving off with the property’s front door lodged in the vehicle.