The abandonment of seafarers is a growing problem around the world and it is being exacerbated by the Covid-10 pandemic. Abandonment can occur for a number of reasons such as when the shipowner fails to cover the cost of a seafarer’s repatriation, fail…
While the number of weekly jobless claims has been stalling for the past couple of months, hovering around 800,000 since late summer, the U.S. job market has continued its gradual recovery over said period. The number of job openings, a measure of labo…
Even though the technology behind autonomous vehicles has progressed hugely in recent years, it’s still by no means perfect. A long list of companies are still testing their electric vehicles in California to improve software capabilities and safety. D…
GDP figures by the OECD for the fourth quarter of 2020 show the ongoing impact the coronavirus is having on economies around the world. China was the first (and only) economy that bounced back from its coronavirus losses, recording a year-over-year gro…
First estimates of the UK’s GDP in 2020 reveal that the country’s economy contracted by 9.9 percent in comparison to 2019. That marks the largest drop on record and as this infographic shows, by some margin. As stated by the Office for National Statist…
As millions of people around the world are trying to find a last-minute (virtual) date for Valentine’s Day, Tinder’s servers are probably running hot these days. The market-leading dating app has not only revolutionized the dating game since its launch…
Democratic impeachment managers continued to make their case in proving former President Donald Trump’s role in gathering and inciting a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Much of the evidence surround’s Trump’s months-long misinformation…
One year ago, on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization found the name for what has been shaping our lives ever since: COVID-19. “Under agreed guidelines between WHO, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organ…
While it doesn’t grab as many headlines as other social media companies, Pinterest has been doing remarkably well in recent years. So well in fact that it caught the eye of one of the industry’s heavyweights. According to the Financial Times, Microsoft…
More and more people are looking for (and finding) a partner with the help of dating apps and platforms. According to Statista’s Digital Market Outlook, online dating services are expected to have reached 370 million active users worldwide by the end o…
