Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI
Apr 25, 2024 06:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Australias inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and its now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% in the December quarter of 2022 and is now just 3.6%, in...
Apr 25, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports
When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later without sanction, many people ...
The 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Apr 25, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo, the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had ruled the country...
Extraordinary Vietnam fraud case exposes the inherent vulnerabilities of banks
Apr 25, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy
The financial crisis of 2008 showed just how much the world depends on banks being well run. Since then, regulators have been given new powers to keep some of the biggest institutions on a much shorter leash to stamp out...
Apr 25, 2024 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Todays NHS faces severe time constraints, with the risk of short consultations and concerns about the risk of misdiagnosis or delayed care. These challenges are compounded by limited resources and overstretched staff that...
Rishi Sunak wants to cut the cost of ‘sicknote’ Britain
Apr 25, 2024 06:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on sickness and disability benefits in order to end a sicknote culture and over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life, in part because he claims that...
Apr 25, 2024 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
When former President Donald Trumps attorneys argue before the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, they will claim he is immune from criminal prosecution for official actions taken during his time in the Oval Office. The...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects