Monthly Archives: January 2017

Rising sea levels mean that Lennox Island has lost more than 400 acres in just a few generations. Now its First Nations community wonders if it has a future His hands tucked tightly in the pockets of his jeans, Gilbert Sark nodded at the ice-covered bay stretched out before him. Decades ago, his grandfather at […]

The Long Read: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over and putting democracy in peril In theory, statistics should help settle arguments. They ought to provide stable reference points that everyone no matter what their […]

In conservative upstate New York an alternative inauguration party will hail the fact that 3 million more people voted for Clinton as defiance spreads nationwide On the evening of 20 January, just a few hours after the former host of Celebrity Apprentice has taken the oath of office to become the 45th president of the […]

BEIJING There have been mounting concerns among China watchers about a debt bubblegrowing and possibly bursting.As China has the second largest economy in the world, a Chinese financial crisis would significantly affect a globalized world economy. Beijing argues the problem is manageable but newdatashows a dangerous increase in the number of new loans issued in […]

(CNN)Gambia’s outgoing President Yahya Jammeh should have spent his last day in office Wednesday but he has refused to accept defeat in last month’s election and hand over power to victor Adama Barrow, whose inauguration is due Thursday. Jammeh’s rejection of the results of the December 1 election has thrown the small West African nation […]

Though recreation on public lands creates $646bn in economic stimulus and 6.1m jobs, Republicans are setting in motion a giveaway of Americans birthright In the midst of highly publicized steps to defund womens healthcare facilities, Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation to give away Americans birthright: 640m acres of national land. In a single […]

This gives British dealers or museums a chance to match the price. But a total of 41 national treasures worth 278m were granted export licences between 2011 and 2016. These include: Veronese, The Triumph of Venice (15.4m) Marble statue of Aphrodite from Syon House (9.6m) Rembrandt van Rijn, Rembrandt Laughing (16.5m) Christian van Vianen, Dutch […]

(CNN)Will the linens be up to snuff? Were the espresso beans sourced locally? Launched in November 2016, Singapore-based Afini refers to itself as a “bespoke luxury travel destination club that crafts customized journeys for its members at exclusively managed residences and iconic hotels across the world.” Membership costs $8,888 while the annual renewal fee is […]

(CNN)[Editor’s note: A prior version of this story called Alejandro Garca Padilla the governor of Puerto Rico. He is a former governor.] President Barack Obama’s commutation of the sentence of Oscar Lpez Rivera, who was convicted for his role in a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked to bombings in US cities, ends a decades-long fight […]

Campaigners say pensioners in countries such as Spain will have to go back to UK if they can no longer get free healthcare Hundreds of thousands of elderly Britons living in Europe may be forced to return to the UK unless the government guarantees that their healthcare will continue to be reimbursed by the NHS, […]