Caroline Foster

Germany will prohibit supermarkets from handing out plastic bags to customers at the checkout from 2022. The German parliament, the Bundestag, agreed on Thursday. Lightweight plastic bags of the kind that customers usually collect…

Entertainment group Disney plans to lay off 32,000 employees in the first six months of next year. That is 4,000 more than the company announced in September. Most of the jobs will disappear at Disney's amusement park branch. Due…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pointed out on Tuesday that the State Department has begun preparations for the transfer of power to the upcoming Biden administration. The ministry started doing so after the head of the federal…

In Japan, where investors returned after a long weekend, the stock market closed sharply higher on Tuesday. The encouraging test results of a cheaper and easier-to-store vaccine from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca sparked hope…

Great Britain will approve the vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer on December 1. That writes the newspaper Daily Telegraph. It is the intention that soon after that, that month, the administration of the drug…

US President Donald Trump wants to enlist the help of local politicians from his Republican Party to maintain power. They must then intervene on his behalf in important states where he lost to the Democrat Joe Biden, and insiders…

One in nine diagnosed corona cases is under the age of 20, UNICEF writes in a report on the occasion of the International Day for the Rights of the Child. The corona crisis is having an increasing impact on children, the UN…

Unilever will do more in the coming years to increase sales of vegetable meat substitutes and dairy varieties. Unilever will announce a new strategy on healthier food and the environmental impact of the food chain, called "Future…

What compelled you to buy a Laguiole knife? Well, there isn't a single reason for everyone. Instead, countless reasons contribute to your willingness, and hence anyone across the globe can acknowledge how renowned these Laguiole knives are…

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of the Interior, says his Republican party members are increasingly pressuring him to question the integrity of the recent presidential election, The Washington Post reports. The minister, who…