After banning Twitter in June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has officially lifted all restrictions placed on the microblogging service at midnight, January 13. With his decision, the number of countries currently blocking the social media s…
Despite the unprecedented surge in Covid-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant, U.S. airports have been staying relatively busy. While the number of TSA safety checks performed at U.S. airports over the past week trails January 2019, i.e. pre-pan…
According to data by the Department of Health and Human Services, 19 U.S. states currently have free ICU hospital bed capacities diminished to 15 percent or less. In five states – Texas, Alabama, Rhode Island, New Mexico and Missouri – the average free…
For most people nowadays, their smartphone is within arm’s reach 24 hours a day. It’s in their pocket while they’re at work, it’s in their hand on the train ride home and it’s on their bedside table as they go to sleep. With this level of proximity and…
The Johnson government has had an uncanny ability to weather political storms since taking power back in 2019. The number of scandals and controversies the prime minister and his party have experienced which would have brought most other leaders tumbli…
While the importance of advertising for the revenue streams of journalistic outlets has decreased, digital and native ads are still seen as two of the three most relevant sources of income for media houses. According to data from a survey conducted by …
Goldman Sachs this week predicted that the Eurozone would grow at a faster pace than the U.S. in 2022, projecting a growth rate of 4.4 percent for EU and only 3.5 percent for U.S. GDP. The latest World Bank forecast, also from January, still sees the U…
India was the latest country this week to start giving out booster shots of the coronavirus vaccine to its citizens, starting with priority groups including health care workers and those over the age of 60.While many European countries have pivoted to …
As 2021 turned out to be another year shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s largest and most valuable tech companies continued to show remarkable resiliency against the global crisis. After big tech stocks outperformed the overall market by a hu…
The number of children treated in hospital with Covid-19 in the United States has been rising in the current Omicron wave as parents and teachers are criticizing school openings despite the extremely contagious nature of the latest coronavirus variant….