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Airbus to start sales drive for larger A220 jet, sources say
Business, Tim Hepher & Padraic Halpin, Published on 31/01/2026
» Airbus is poised to start offering airlines and leasing firms a larger version of its A220 regional jet with a view to launching development later this year, industry sources said.
Is there a case for IMF gold sales?
News, Tim Hirschel-Burns & Marina Zucker-Marques, Published on 14/10/2025
» With developing countries facing intense financial pressure and developed countries slashing foreign aid, it can be tempting to dream of stumbling across a pot of gold. Dream no longer: The International Monetary Fund is currently sitting on 90.5 million ounces of the metal.
Millions at risk as US funds for water projects dry up
By Ammu Kannampilly and Andy Sullivan, Reuters, Published on 19/07/2025
» TAVETA, Kenya - The Trump administration’s decision to slash nearly all US foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found.
Tit-for-tat tariffs as Trump escalates trade war
News, Kate Sullivan & Josh Wingrove, Published on 08/03/2025
» US President Donald Trump delivered on his threat to hit Canada and Mexico with sweeping import levies and doubled an existing charge on China, spurring swift reprisals that plunged the world economy into a deepening trade war. Yesterday, Mr Trump backtracked and postponed Canada and Mexico tariffs for a month.
Chokepoints could cripple trade
News, Tim Culpan, Published on 16/01/2024
» When traffic through the Suez Canal ground to a halt in 2021, the extraordinary cost and disruptions to global commerce seemed overwhelming. But 8,000 kilometres from the canals of Suez and Panama lie even more important shipping lanes, chokepoints that could cripple global trade should any disaster befall them.
Fragile supply chains will rebuild
News, Tim Culpan, Published on 27/12/2023
» Pick a single item from an array of shocks and you can see just how fragile global supply chains truly are. But combine climate change, decoupling from China, unprecedented technological development, wars, rising costs and labour shortages, and we now have an amalgam of catalysts that will change global trade for the better.
You too, may one day have your own satellite
News, Tim Culpan, Published on 20/12/2023
» The Space Race, launched more than 60 years ago, kickstarted an unprecedented boom in travel and communications beyond our planet. But it was a realm only available to national governments with multibillion-dollar budgets. Private industry has now taken over the sector, making personal satellite ownership a fast-approaching reality for consumers.
The internet is not the enemy
Oped, Andrew Sullivan, Published on 09/12/2021
» We live in an age of wonder in which half the world now has access to a technology -- the internet -- that supports people's health and education, can be a lifeline in a time of disaster or disease, and was designed to be open to everyone but owned by no one. And the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted both its importance and its potential by forcing the world to connect remotely, contact-free, and in real time.
Apple's Move to Block User Tracking Spawns New Digital Ad Strategies
Business, Patience Haggin & Tim Higgins, Published on 29/03/2021
» As Apple Inc. moves ahead with long-promised plans to make it harder to target certain iPhone users with ads, advertising companies and software developers are preparing for major disruptions to the $400 billion digital advertising industry.
The vaccine revolution comes inside tiny bubbles of fat
Tim Loh of Bloomberg News, Published on 04/03/2021
» NEW YORK: If messenger-RNA vaccines are the breakout medicine of the pandemic, then the tiny lipid spheres that bring them into people’s cells are the unsung heroes.