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Ghanaian musician Amaarae trends on Instagram with her white crop top and baggy jeans
2 UMaT lecturers bag PhD in Chemical Engineering from KNUST, netizens praise them: "Thank God"
Two hardworking lecturers at the University of Mines and Technology's GNPC School of Petroleum Studies have earned PhDs in Chemical Engineering from KNUST.
UBS shareholders to weigh in on Credit Suisse mega-merger
UBS shareholders get their first chance to grill the bank's bosses Wednesday over its shotgun marriage to Credit Suisse, done in double-quick time behind their backs.
Soaring prices dampen UK Ramadan celebrations
Despite the enticing produce in their windows, Muslim-owned retailers on east London's Brick Lane are unusually quiet as a cost-of-living crisis bites into Ramadan earnings. That makes the cost-of-living crisis particularly painful for communities such as those around Brick Lane, one of the poorest parts of London.
Cypriots priced out as Russians, Israelis eye coastal city
In Cyprus's southern coastal city of Limassol, Russian and Ukrainian firms fleeing wartime conditions, and Israeli investors betting on real estate, have driven prices up and local residents out. Behind such big-money projects are often foreign investors, "notably Israelis", he said.
India's 'brown beauty' make-up influencers go global
Under the glow of a ring light in the spare bedroom of a Mumbai high-rise apartment, Indian make-up maven Debasree Banerjee has found fans across the world with a simple philosophy: brown is beautiful. Banerjee, 34, began experimenting with make-up videos in her spare time a decade ago, after graduating from university and moving to Mumbai to work in sales.
Asian markets mixed as soft US data raises recession fears
Asian stocks drifted Wednesday after a retreat on Wall Street as data showing a softening in the US jobs market pointed to a slowing economy and fuelled fresh fears of a recession. But New York traders ran out of energy Tuesday and turned sellers after data showed February job openings at US companies fell to their lowest level since May 2021 and below forecasts.
Johnson & Johnson proposes $8.9 bn settlement of talc cancer claims
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday proposed an $8.9 billion settlement to resolve years-old lawsuits claiming that its talcum powder products caused cancer. J&J has been facing thousands of lawsuits over talcum powder containing traces of asbestos blamed for causing ovarian cancer.
Brazil favela chefs say poor should eat well, too
Brazilian chef Ana Lucia Costa is putting the finishing touches on an exquisite dish of marinated pork loin with lime and ginger, preparing to serve around 100 diners. Da Silva got up at 3:00 am to cook a dish of rice with saffron and black sesame seeds, served with roasted vegetables.
Indigenous Colombians in standoff over wind farms
In Colombia's far north, wind farm expansion is unsettling the Indigenous Wayuu inhabitants of a semi-desert region earmarked as an El Dorado of renewable energy. As part of a vast energy transition plan, in which solar and wind energy would represent eight percent of national supply, two wind farms have recently been built on this Caribbean peninsula.
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