The shutdown of the biggest US fuel pipeline by a ransomware attack highlights a systemic vulnerability: Pipeline operators have no requirement to implement cyber defences.

In its ongoing case against Apple, “Fortnite” creator Epic Games is counting on this week’s testimony from its star expert witness David Evans, chairman of Global Economics Group, to make its case that Apple is an anti-competitive monopolist over app developers.

The shutdown of the biggest US fuel pipeline by a ransomware attack highlights a systemic vulnerability: Pipeline operators have no requirement to implement cyber defences.

As special envoys on Covid-19 for the director-general of the World Health Organisation, we have witnessed firsthand the intensity of the suffering caused by the pandemic, especially in poorer communities. This profound tragedy has been evolving before our eyes and still is nowhere near its end.

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Fiercely critical of Abraham Lincoln and at times racist, the newspaper’s leader columns did not always get it right

The insidious virus is still raging across the world with all its ferocity. For a perspective, global cases are nearing 160mn with deaths exceeding 3.3mn. More than 1.31bn doses of vaccines have been given so far.

Postponed last year because of the pandemic, Euro 2020 finally kicks off in a month’s time when Italy face Turkey in Rome but the health crisis continues to cast a shadow over a tournament being held for the first time at venues all across the continent.

The underlying political deal is similar on both sides of the Atlantic: decarbonise the power sector first while sheltering industry from higher costs

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If the gaps between haves and have-nots aren’t narrowed soon the entire pandemic response will be compromised

If the officially reported global Covid-19 death number is 3.24mn, a new study which claims that the actual figure is more than double, nearing 7mn, has come as a rude jolt.