(Beirut) – Hundreds of migrant workers employed in Saudi Arabia by the manufacturing and supply company Sendan International did not receive their salaries for up to eight months, Human Rights Watch said today. They include workers employed
Economist William Nordhaus once calculated that our ancestors spent approximately 58 hours of labour to generate the same amount of light that’s now produced by a modern lightbulb in an instant. By the 1700s, oil lamps cut that figure to fi
In May, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their covid-19 vaccines to include a heightened risk of heart inflammation, specifically myocarditis and pericarditis, in males aged 16 t
A large cohort study in Italy found a 36% increased incidence of hospitalisation for all cancers among those who received at least one covid vaccination compared to the unvaccinated. The study found statistically significant increased incid
AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace. The AI boom is becoming the largest wealth creation spree in recent history, according to CNBC. Last month, CNBC said that “AI is creating personal wealth on a scale that makes the past two