The world this week-Business 本周经济要闻 The European Union opened up a new front in its antitrust battle with Google by accusing the company of using the dominant position of its Android operating system in the smartphone market to limit comp...
Small wonder Africa grew poorer between 1980 and 2000. 难怪在1980至2000年期间,非洲变得更穷了。 Now inflation has largely been tamed, most central banks are islands of excellence and many ministers boast of cutting red tape. 现在,通...
Leaders Business in Africa Making Africa work 社论精粹 非洲商业 让非洲发展起来 The continent's future depends on people, not commodities 非洲的前途依赖人,而非大宗商品 IS ANYONE here actually hoping to make any money, or...
The explanation that many academics and think-tanks favour is that guards are less tolerant towards women. A 1994 study of Texan prisons found that wardens in female prisons demanded total compliance but those in male prisons did not. Ellie Butt at t...
Britain-Women in prison 英国 牢房中的女性 Breaking worse 让女性走出牢房 Female prisoners are more badly behaved than male ones 女性囚犯比男性囚犯表现更差 Bad behaviour behind bars 牢房之内,女性更坏? AS A rule,...
Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, once again ruled out putting himself forward as a candidate for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. 美国众议院议长保罗瑞恩(Paul Ryan)再次拒绝参加共和党总统提名选举。 Some...
Politics this week 本周政治要闻 Ukraine's prime minister, Arseniy Yatseniuk, said he will resign as soon as the parliament finds a candidate to replace him. President Petro Poroshenko has nominated Volodymyr Groisman, the speaker of parliament,...
Don Blankenship, arguably America's most powerful coal-industry executive when he was boss of Massey Energy, was sentenced to a year in jail for conspiring to violate safety rules in relation to an explosion at a mine in West Virginia in 2010 that ki...
Business this week 本周经济要闻 Pfizer called off its $160 billion merger with Allergan after the US Treasury proposed new rules that would severely curtail the benefits of inversion takeovers (where an American company buys a foreign one in or...
Girls and sex 女孩与性 Two steps forward, one back 向前两步,后退一步 For girls, growing up is a perilous journey 对女孩来说,成长是一场艰险的旅行 FOR tips on taking a selfie, talk to teenage girls. Many know that your go...