A Chinese-born alleged drug kingpin accused of presiding over a multi-billion dollar narcotics operation has been arrested by Dutch authorities.

Experts from the UK and Bangladesh give insights on clean energy development in both countries.

On 14 January 2020, the California Supreme Court held that its earlier landmark decision setting forth the definitive rule for independent contractor classification, Dynamex Ops. W. Inc. v. Superior Court, 416 P.3d 1 (2018), applies retroactively. In Vasquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc., S258191 (2021), the Court explained that Dynamex’s […]

Wood is one of the most versatile and useful materials on earth. The trouble, of course, is that our insatiable need for wood is driving deforestation and once a tree is cut another could take decades to grow up in its place. But what if we could grow wooden products […]

Country: World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees An estimated 1.44 million refugees are in urgent need of resettlement globally, but only 22,770 were resettled through UNHCR – the lowest numbers the agency has witnessed in almost two decades.

Country: Mozambique Source: United Nations Population Fund The cyclone threatens to worsen an already dire situation in the region, one of the areas that suffered from the impacts of Cyclone Idai in March 2019, which affected an estimated 1.85 million people.

It’s true that tourism and global travel have been painfully curtailed by the unabated COVID-19 pandemic, and that means fewer photos of “adventurous” humans showing off selfies taken with monkeys and other primates – animals that may be highly at-risk for contracting the coronavirus too. But other concerns over how […]