For Ola Williams, Microsoft Country Manager for Nigeria and Ghana, empowering women through tech training is furthering digital infrastructure development across the continent.Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 05:56PM

Farmers in Ukraine are storing away their grain as ports remain closed to shipping. The farmers foresee staffing shortages and slower grain production next year amid the uncertainty. CNN’s Nic Robertson reports. Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 08:04PM

The Washington Post’s tech columnist Taylor Lorenz tells “Nightcap’s” Jon Sarlin why TikTok is a threat to Instagram and why viewing more videos on Instagram is inevitable. To get the day’s business headlines sent directly to your inbox, sign up for the Nightcap newsletter.Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 12:40AM

Amazon appears to still be going strong even as other Big Tech companies stumble amid pressure from inflation and an economic downturn.Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 10:20PM

There’s one thing that the two candidates locked in a bad-tempered battle to be Britain’s next prime minister agree on: Brexit is nothing to do with any of the woes facing the UK right now. Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 11:24AM

The German city of Hanover has banned hot water in public buildings and has introduced measures to reduce heating and energy usage as Europe faces a potential natural gas crisis this winter. Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 12:00PM

When dozens of towns across Italy started selling crumbling buildings for the cost of an espresso, people from all over the world were prompted to grab a slice of the action — and for many different reasons.Story Published at: July 29, 2022 at 11:47AM

When bombshell “Baywatch”-era one-pieces and teeny bikinis reigned in the 1990s, relief for many women came in the form of the tankini — a tank-top silhouette that offered more coverage than most two-pieces, but could still be modest, sporty or sexy. It was one of the few innovations at a time when women’s swim styles only catered to few body […]

It was a project always destined to go up in a puff of smoke, at least part of it. And now British artist Damien Hirst has announced he will burn thousands of his paintings at his London gallery as part of his year-long NFT project, baldly titled “The Currency.”Story Published at: July 27, 2022 at 11:29AM

President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping held a lengthy and candid discussion about Taiwan on Thursday as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing, despite Biden’s onetime hope of stabilizing the world’s most important country-to-country relationship.Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 06:50PM