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- business
Analysis: The Economics of the AI Build-Out Are Being Tested
Data centre capital spending has grown faster than the revenue it is meant to support. Our markets editor examines what the numbers can and cannot tell us.
Robert Keane · 24 July 2026
- editorial
Editorial: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Reporters continue to face detention and harassment in too many countries. Global News restates a simple principle.
Helena Marsh · 19 July 2026
- science
Explainer: The Orbital Traffic Problem Nobody Owns
Satellite launches have outpaced the rules governing what happens when they stop working.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 17 July 2026
- opinion
Opinion: Africa's Debt Debate Needs Better Arithmetic, Not Louder Slogans
Refinancing risk, not the headline stock of debt, is what constrains budgets across the continent.
Daniel Mbeki · 16 July 2026
- world
Analysis: Middle Powers Are Setting More of the Agenda
As the largest states deadlock, coalitions of medium-sized countries are doing the drafting.
Helena Marsh · 15 July 2026
- south america
Analysis: The Lithium Boom Has Reached Its Awkward Phase
Prices have fallen, projects have slowed, and producing countries are rewriting the terms.
Tomás Oliveira · 13 July 2026
- nigeria
Analysis: Nigeria's Tax Reforms Face a Collection Problem
Rates are easier to change than compliance, and the gap between the two defines the outcome.
Emeka Nwosu · 10 July 2026
- sports
Feature: The Sporting Calendar Has Run Out of Room
Expanded competitions have collided with player workload, and the medical evidence is no longer ambiguous.
James Whitfield · 6 July 2026
- climate
Explainer: Why Water Security Is Becoming a Budget Line
Governments that once treated water as an environmental issue are now writing it into finance ministry planning.
Sarah Benali · 2 July 2026
- africa
African Free Trade Area Records First Sustained Rise in Intra-Continental Commerce
Officials point to progress on rules of origin and payments, though non-tariff barriers persist.
Daniel Mbeki · 16 September 2025
- world
Pope Francis Dies at 88
The first Latin American pontiff led the Catholic Church for twelve years.
Clara Hoffmann · 21 April 2025
- world
Assad Government Falls as Opposition Forces Enter Damascus
A rapid offensive ended more than five decades of Assad family rule in Syria.
Sarah Benali · 8 December 2024
- nigeria
Nigeria Removes Its Petrol Subsidy
President Bola Tinubu's inauguration-day announcement produced an immediate tripling of pump prices.
Emeka Nwosu · 29 May 2023
- world
Russia Launches a Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
Missile strikes hit cities across the country as columns crossed the border from the north, east and south.
Clara Hoffmann · 24 February 2022
- world
Taliban Enter Kabul as the Afghan Government Collapses
Twenty years of Western military engagement ended with a chaotic airlift from the capital's airport.
Helena Marsh · 15 August 2021
- nigeria
Nigeria's EndSARS Protests Culminate at Lekki Toll Gate
Weeks of youth-led demonstrations against police brutality ended in violence in Lagos.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 20 October 2020
- health
World Health Organization Declares Covid-19 a Pandemic
The agency said the new coronavirus had spread to more than 110 countries and urged governments to act urgently.
Helena Marsh · 11 March 2020
- climate
Surge in Amazon Fires Draws International Alarm
Brazilian satellite data recorded a sharp rise in burning, prompting diplomatic friction at the G7 summit.
Tomás Oliveira · 23 August 2019
- africa
Sudan's Military and Protest Leaders Agree a Transitional Government
The deal followed months of demonstrations that ended thirty years of rule by Omar al-Bashir.
Daniel Mbeki · 17 August 2019
- world
Europe Confronts Its Largest Refugee Movement Since the Second World War
More than a million people crossed the Mediterranean and the Balkan route, testing the European Union's asylum system.
Clara Hoffmann · 4 September 2015
- nigeria
More Than 200 Schoolgirls Abducted From Chibok
Armed men took students from a government secondary school in Borno State, prompting a global campaign for their release.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 15 April 2014
- technology
Documents Reveal Scale of United States Surveillance Programmes
Files provided by a former contractor described bulk collection of telephone records and access to data held by major technology companies.
Priya Raman · 6 June 2013
- world
Tunisia's President Flees as Protests Topple a 23-Year Government
Weeks of demonstrations that began with the self-immolation of a street vendor forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power.
Sarah Benali · 14 January 2011
- world
Catastrophic Earthquake Devastates Haiti
A magnitude 7.0 tremor struck near Port-au-Prince, flattening government buildings, hospitals and homes across the capital.
Tomás Oliveira · 12 January 2010
- world
Barack Obama Elected First Black President of the United States
The Illinois senator defeated John McCain to win the White House, drawing record turnout and enormous crowds to his victory rally in Chicago.
James Whitfield · 5 November 2008
- sports
Beijing Opens the 2008 Olympic Games With a Spectacle of Scale
China staged an opening ceremony of extraordinary ambition, presenting its economic rise to a global television audience of more than a billion people.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 8 August 2008