Let us start with a stiff whisky and the bad news. The state of the planet on the eve of Cop30 in Brazil is abominable.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, down as much as 416 points midday, rallied to close 75 points higher on the day, up 0.2%.

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Marriages, which demographers use as a proxy for the country’s birth rate, rose 22.5% from a year earlier to 1.61 million in the third quarter of 2025, putting China on track to halt a downtrend in ...

Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of ...

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As financial markets have gained dominance across the globe, especially so in the last four decades, gold has retreated to ...