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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
Tencent’s popularity may help it avoid trouble with Beijing. But its vast power could still squelch innovation in the world’s largest online market.
After a shift by the C.D.C., employers withdrew mask policies that workers felt were protecting them from unvaccinated customers.
Spanish officials say Morocco increasingly sees migrants as currency for financial and political gains after it let up to 12,000 flood into a Spanish enclave in North Africa over two days.
Oil and gas giants are selling off their most-polluting operations to small private companies. Most manage to escape public scrutiny.
To meet a jump in demand, the country’s bike-making industry is building new factories, hiring workers and dealing with parts shortages.
Meat processing plants operated by JBS, which handles a fifth of the cattle and hog slaughter in the U.S., were coming back online on Wednesday but were not all at full capacity, union officials said.
A proposal to construct barriers for storm surge protection has forced South Floridians to reckon with the many environmental challenges they face.
The British actor does most of the dramatic heavy lifting in the new season of Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series, most notably in a raw episode about fertility struggles.
It has been a tough year for Broadway. Now it’s time to get tough on the show that too often honors investors instead of achievers.
Often ignored in conversation about the booming resale industry is a long history of clothing thrifted by necessity, because of racism.
The Biden administration is trying to persuade other nations to approve a global minimum tax as it works to curb profit shifting and raise corporate taxes in the United States.
A former factory worker in Italy has become the fastest-growing content creator on TikTok.