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Coinbase wows in Nasdaq debut amid cryptocurrency frenzy
AFP, Published on 15/04/2021
» NEW YORK: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made a dramatic stock market debut Wednesday amid frenzied interest in bitcoin and other virtual currencies despite concerns about a bubble.
One year on from historic sub-zero plunge oil prices recover
AFP, Published on 21/04/2021
» LONDON: One year ago, crude oil prices plunged into the abyss, wiped out by the global coronavirus pandemic and disagreement within OPEC.
China's imports pick up further, exports strong in March
AFP, Published on 13/04/2021
» BEIJING: China's imports and exports boomed again in March, data showed Tuesday, reaffirming the recovery in the world's number-two economy continues apace and demand picks up in key overseas markets as they emerge from last year's virus crisis.
Europe's heat and drought crop losses tripled in 50 years
AFP, Published on 02/04/2021
» PARIS: The severity of crop losses driven by heat waves and drought have tripled in the last fifty years in Europe, according to a study that highlights the vulnerability of food systems to climate change.
Scammers prey on desperate in Covid-plagued Mexico
AFP, Published on 29/01/2021
» MEXICO CITY - Fake vaccines, dubious coronavirus tests, non-existent oxygen tanks -- scammers are preying on desperate Mexican coronavirus patients and their relatives as the pandemic stretches the country's health system to the limit.
Breakfast, freezers, Lego: on the vaccine trail in Germany
AFP, Published on 26/12/2020
» BERLIN - It was over breakfast on the wintry morning of January 24 that Ozlem Tureci and her husband Ugur Sahin decided, "we need to fire the starting gun on this".
Debt and Covid are a double whammy for Zambia
AFP, Published on 30/12/2020
» LUSAKA - For days on end, Mildred Mwenya hasn't seen so much as the shadow of a customer in her pharmacy in the Zambian capital Lusaka.
Pfizer Covid vaccine will reach hospitals across US on Monday
AFP, Published on 13/12/2020
» WASHINGTON - The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will reach hospitals and other sites across the United States by Monday morning, a top official said Saturday, ready to be injected into the arms of millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
Uncertain recovery to follow coronavirus shock
AFP, Published on 02/12/2020
» PARIS - The coronavirus pandemic triggered a historic global economic shock that required determined government initiative to confront it, while reinforcing China and big US tech companies.
Red wine to Bluetooth: Connectivity becomes precious commodity in sports science
AFP, Published on 06/11/2020
» PARIS - When the Greek runner Spiros Louis lit the flame under the Olympic ideal by winning the first marathon in the 1896 Olympics, he did it fuelled on a traditional Mediterranean diet.