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Late last year, the US-based owners of Manchester United, a soccer team in the United Kingdom’s Premier League, decided to sell the team. Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the son of Qatar’s former prime minister, is try
A new investigation shows that the European Union (EU) dumps 37 million items of junk, plastic clothing in Kenya every year.
A new report says that the world is producing a record amount of single-use plastic.
Netflix announced that it will stop people from sharing their Netflix passwords.
On Monday, Rio Tinto Ltd apologized for losing a small, radioactive capsule. The company thinks that the capsule fell out of a truck in the desert of Western Australia.
Nigeria has recently opened a new deep seaport in its largest city, Lagos. The billion-dollar seaport is expected to reduce traffic at the country’s other ports. Nigeria also hopes that the port will help the country bec
Millions of gamers in China who play World of Warcraft (WoW) must say goodbye to the popular game. World of Warcraft will go offline in China because of a disagreement between the US video game developer Blizzard and the
Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify have started paying for a new service. The service removes carbon dioxide (CO2) gasses from the air and puts it underground. This process is then checked by a third party to make sure it wa
Over the last two years, the wealthiest people in the world have been getting a lot richer, a lot faster than other people.
For a long time, consumers have been asking companies for the option to fix things like phones, computers and machines at home.
LKAB, a government-controlled mining company in Sweden, said that it discovered a large amount of rare earth elements.
It has been reported that Microsoft is testing OpenAI’s language AI technology in Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Amazon, the giant e-commerce company, has 1.5 million employees around the world. It recently announced that it will cut 18,000 jobs but did not say in which countries.
Sneaker-lovers know that the sporty shoes can be expensive. Reselling sneakers has become a popular business and is growing quickly.
On Wednesday, the first metro train launched in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Officials and commuters hope that it will help traffic problems in one of the most densely populated cities in the world.
Robots at a new McDonald’s restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas are now serving Big Macs.
The movie “Avatar: The Way of Water” earned one-hundred thirty-four million dollars at the US box office in its first weekend. This is the first time a movie directed by James Cameron has had a one-hundred million dollar
New Zealand introduced a new law that will make smoking illegal for the next generation.
Gurunavi Research Institute, a company with a popular website to help people find restaurants, annually chooses the “dish of the year” in Japan. This year, the company announced that ‘frozen food’ was the winner.
Japan, Britain and Italy are partnering to make a new fighter jet. It will be Japan’s first industrial military project with a country other than the US since World War Two.
