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Pfizer, Moderna vaccines may vanquish Covid today, cancer tomorrow

Ordinary vaccines tend to be inactivated or weakened viruses which, when injected into the body, stimulate an immune response that can later protect against the live pathogen

Friends of the US ought to help Joe Biden succeed: Bloomberg editors

US partners should coordinate new efforts to strengthen their joint military capabilities, much as Japan has been doing with Australia, India and key Southeast Asian nations

Zuckerberg should know a Facebook without hate makes business sense

Facebook already has the necessary tools to stop accentuating partisanship and to cut down on misinformation.

OPEC+ needed a Swat team for swift action, instead it mobilises an Army

Monday's virtual gathering of the 13 OPEC ministers broke up without agreement, the bigger OPEC+ meeting was delayed by two days and then by another two hours as the start time approached

Greece or Barbados? The fight to lure Covid's work-from-home nomads

Countries of a sunny disposition, from tax havens to tourist traps, are competing hard to attract this new workforce aristocracy

India, like the rest of the developing world, can't ease up on Covid now

It's important for the developing world to avoid a second wave: The only tool that worked to control Covid-19's spread may no longer be available

Bumper harvests, healthy stockpiles but coronavirus world is undernourished

Contained global food costs haven't stopped inflation spikes in India, Pakistan and elsewhere, as supply disruptions hit.

Don't ignore the good news from Asia in the fight against Covid-19

The differences between Asia and Europe look more rooted in recent, not ancient, history

Can Britain's BBC represent a 'broad church of opinions' like it claims to?

It is even-handedness that makes the BBC trusted around the world, even by enemies of the West

Crashing economy, bare cupboard: Costs of pandemic are piling up for India

India might still have managed the economic storm if its Covid-19 case total was not exploding as well

Why Indo-Pacific countries will miss 'Abe Model' more than Japan

This was a prime minister who, for better or worse, seemed to see himself first of all as a convener of and evangelizer to the democracies of a "free and open" Indo-Pacific

The world can live without Davos: Society needs to listen to new voices

It's questionable if the World Economic Forum is the right venue to draw the path of recovery for a world ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic

'Harvard Hyderabad': The future of US higher education could be in India

Universities that open significant branches in India could become among the very best in the world, argues Tyler Cowen.

Markets fixated about inflation but it is the wrong bogeyman to worry about

Voices crying about inflation and currency debasement should be treated with caution.

No more a tech firm: Softbank gives up pretending it isn't a hegde fund

Masayoshi Son used to run a tech company but he has not 'operated' anything for a while.

Always in the lead: Why Kamala Harris is Biden's best bet as VP pick

Take a moment to appreciate the fact that a woman with Black and Indian heritage can be considered a safe pick to be the US Vice President.

Why even herd immunity may not prove to be the best bet against Covid-19

Herd immunity, as a general concept, could mean a more dangerous virus for some areas and population subgroups

Goldman Sachs comes up with Tinder for mergers in a social-distanced world

After all, this weekend's flurry of deal activity shows that not even the coronavirus can stifle M&A demand for long

US TikTok ban: Why Facebook, Google should be worried by Trump's moves

The decision opens a Pandora's Box that digital platforms might one day wish had been kept closed

India isn't winning friends with its openly aggressive lurch to the right

The Indian government is behaving like Viktor Orban of Hungary or Donald Trump himself in its happy embrace of the global right.