Yahoo has ceased doing business in China rather than obey China's strict state surveillance laws.

When it is impossible for a US company to operate justly in another country, it should do as Yahoo just did, and cease operating there.

* UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars.* They plan to make many technologies cheaper and make them available to the whole world, starting with clean electricity, electric vehicles, green steel, elecrolytic hydrogen and sustainable farming.

This won't make the global heating problem fix itself — we will still need to end deforestation, and fund quick adoption of these new solutions. That will require a lot of investment in poor countries.

Afghanistan's improbable history, from progressive king to Communist civil war to religious fanatics.

In Sudan, bankers are on strike to protest the military government. This has brought much of the economy to a standstill, and is causing hardship for people who don't have cash to buy food.

Is it correct to think of bankers as part of the people? Is it a good thing that bankers can bring the country to its knees by striking, or does it show they are dangerously powerful?

*Mercenaries, the army and Bashir-era business interests have seized control and will sell the country’s resources to the highest bidder.*

Bosnian Serbs are reportedly planning to break away from Bosnia again.