Drug companies’ settlement avoids first federal opioid trial
Four large drug companies reached a last-minute, $260 million legal settlement over their role in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic, averting the first federal trial...
Turkey’s murder rate for women has doubled
Last year 440 women in Turkey were murdered by men, unofficial data show, more than doubling from 2012 when Ankara passed a law on preventing...
Israel’s Netanyahu gives up effort to form new government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he was giving up his effort to form a new government after failing to secure a majority...
Breakingviews TV: IMF checked
Global growth forecasts are down again, and central bankers and even finance ministers are up against the limits of what they can do. Trade wars...
Johnson faces perilous Brexit ratification after deal vote blocked
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a potentially perilous ratification of his Brexit divorce deal in the British parliament after the speaker refused to allow a...
Russian accounts targeted U.S. voters on Instagram ahead of 2020 election: Facebook
A network of Instagram accounts operated from Russia has targeted Americans with divisive political messages ahead of next year’s presidential election and posed as local...
Fidelity drops Ken Fisher’s investment firm over comments
A Fidelity Investments spokesman said on Monday it has dropped Fisher Investments as a money manager over allegedly sexist comments the firm’s leader Kenneth Fisher...
Nigerian unicycling school reinvents the wheel
29 year-old Nigerian Olalekan Kuyoro runs an after-school club, where children are taught to ride and perform tricks on unicycles – created to keep the...
Painting for a living, when you have no arms or legs
Adama Traore, who was born without arms and legs, says painting helps to heal and boost morale. He sells his work in the Ivorian capital....
Nigerian unicycle coach seeks to reinvent the wheel
Olalekan Kuyoro runs an after-school club at his home in Lagos, where children are taught to ride and perform tricks on unicycles. Nneka Chile reports....