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Global corporate landscape 2023: Mergers, closures, and leadership shifts

From acquisitions & mergers to resignations 2023 has been a year of significant milestones in the global corporate world. Here is a recap on all the major event that unfolded in 2023

The power of symbols

Mythic symbols, like the one invoked by Mick Jagger in the iconic Rolling Stones logo, carry powerful meanings that speak universally

Byron Allen submits $10 billion bid for ABC, other Disney networks

Allen is basing his offer on the assumption that the properties generated $1.25 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization over the past 12 months

National Geographic lays off last writers, will not be sold in US anymore

National Geographic layoffs: Job cuts by Disney, the publication's parent company, were the second over the past nine months

Indian American wins National Geographic's pictures of the year contest

An Indian American software developer turned-hobbyist photographer from Silicon valley has won National Geographic's first-ever Picture of the Year contest with his stunning image showing a trio of bald eagles battling for a spot on a branch in Alaska's Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. After a rigorous vetting process by a team of seasoned Nat Geo photo editors, Karthik Subramaniam's Dance of the Eagles photo was named grand-prize winner, according to an official announcement here. Every year in November, hundreds of bald eagles gather at Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve near Haines, Alaska, to feast on salmon. I visited there last two Novembers to photograph them, says Subramaniam. Studying their behaviour patterns helped me anticipate some of their actions. For example, when an eagle drags salmon to a dry spot, other eagles in the area would inevitably fly there to claim their share, and that leads to chaotic action, he said. They also seemed to have some favourite spots to hang out, and

World slips on deforestation, loses cover equal to Ireland's area in 2021

Global gross deforestation amounted to 6.8 million hectares in 2021 with 3.9 giga-tonnes of CO2 equivalent of associated GHG emissions

Diving deeper into the sea

Though water covers over 70 per cent of the Earth, the sea is as much of a mystery as the Moon

An award-winning journalist tracks humankind's migration out of Africa

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek is on an intercontinental journey of 24,000 miles, tracing humankind's movement out of Africa right down to South America

The cogs in the entertainment wheel

The boom in content has had a ripple effect across the ecosystem with hundreds of little firms finding global work and relevance

NatGeo's famed 'Afghan Girl' arrested in Pakistan over dual citizenship charges

Sharbat Bibi featured on the cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine when she was 12 years old