A statue of a teenage girl symbolising former “comfort women” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, sits in Seoul. Photographer: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images. Japan reacted angrily after a South Korean government-backed panel said Wednesday that the nations'
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Some scientists think that humans can't handle the truth about the damage they are doing to the environment — that findings must be sugar-coated lest people lose the hope needed to act. They should listen to psychologists and stop holding back. Earlier this year, the journalist David Wallace-Wells
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The company's much-maligned new ad – – was dreamed up by Pepsi's in-house creative team, Creators League Studio, . The two-and-a-half minute commercial has sparked widespread criticism, with many accusing the company of trivializing actual protest …
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A pipeline blast in Libya and a bullish budget forecast in Saudi Arabia boosted crude prices to levels not seen since mid-2015. West Texas Intermediate crude settled within a whisker of $60 a barrel, settling Tuesday at $59.97 a barrel in New York, up …
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Peter Blumberg, a legal editor for Bloomberg News, discusses why a Federal judge in Seattle struck down parts of President Trump's eleven nation refugee ban. He speaks with Bloomberg's Peter Barnes and Nathan Hager on Bloomberg Radio's Politics, Policy, Power and Law. This is a Bloomberg
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