August 6, 2021

At an optical business in New York City, it took months of coaxing, a cash bonus and a weekly testing mandate to persuade 90 percent of the staff to get a coronavirus vaccine.

A push to increase sales of electric vehicles favors companies that already have all-electric cars on the market and could penalize those that don’t.

Relentless waves of the virus, combined with crises caused by conflict and climate change, have left tens of millions of people around the world on the brink of famine.

The small Gulf country, most of whose residents are foreign workers, has looked beyond its borders for athletes, too.

The gain of 943,000 was the best showing in nearly a year, and unemployment was 5.4 percent, the lowest since the pandemic began.