Bloomberg Sweden, known for its long dark winters with barely any daylight, is seeing a solar power boom. Harnessing whatever sunshine the country gets is emerging as the quickest solution to fill part of the void left by two closed nuclear reactors in southern Sweden, where the biggest cities and industries are located. With shortages piling up in the ...

Sri Lanka has a habit of selling off its assets when times are tough. And it doesn’t get much tougher than this. The tiny island nation is in default and in desperate need of $4 billion to pay for food, fuel and fertiliser to stave off a deeper crisis. The newly appointed prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe — his sixth time ...

At first glance, the acute shortage of baby formula seems like an advertisement for breast-feeding. If only women did what came naturally, the thinking might go, maybe there wouldn’t be a problem at all. This argument would draw on evidence that multinational corporations like Nestle did much to persuade women to give up breast-feeding in favour of formula. Their 20th-century ...