Hong Kong’s stock market has had its worst day in nearly five years after China said it would vote on a controversial national security law bill that could ban people in the Asian financial hub from inciting and participating in protests. The city’s Hang Seng index slid nearly six per cent today in its poorest one-day performance … Read more
Leaked: Some of the City’s best known grandees set to attend controversial Davos in the desert Conference was boycotted last year following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi Bosses from HSBC, Standard Chartered and the LSE are expected to attend Sir Martin Sorrell and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert also By William Turvill For The … Read more
Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor despite official figures saying the figure is 57,300 Moscow mayor says the infection rate is far higher than officials have recorded If he’s right, 2 per cent of Moscow’s population would be infected with Covid-10 Before the mayor’s revelation Russia had reported … Read more
Moscow’s real coronavirus infection toll is more than 250,000 says the city’s mayor despite official figures saying the figure is 57,300 Moscow mayor says the infection rate is far higher than officials have recorded If he’s right, 2 per cent of Moscow’s population would be infected with Covid-10 Before the mayor’s revelation Russia had reported … Read more
A spike in heart attacks in mid-February could have been an early sign that the coronavirus was starting to spread in New York City before it became the epicenter for the illness in mid-March. Data from New York shows that there was an uptick in 911 calls for cardiac arrest in Brooklyn and Queens in … Read more
Coronavirus dead across New York could be temporarily buried on the city’s famous Hart Island, where unclaimed and unidentified bodies are buried by prison inmates in mass graves, as morgues across the city continue to overflow and the death toll ticks up. Hart Island is ordinarily used to bury unidentified or unclaimed bodies. It was … Read more
New York City’s streets continue to be an eerie and disturbing sight, empty of tourists and residents as locals shutter themselves indoors to avoid the coronavirus outbreak. The Big Apple’s subway system that usually shuttles millions of commuters a day is now desolate, with the few passengers who brave the journey wearing protective face masks … Read more
Growing fruit and vegetables on roadside verges and in urban parks could feed thousands of city dwellers and help to reduce the UK’s reliance on foreign exports Growing fruit and veg on unused green land could help improve UK food security Green urban spaces could give 15 per cent of a city’s population with ‘five … Read more