Two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse will keep us busy in 2022 as they did in 2021. One is plague — in our case the Sars-CoV-2 virus that keeps mutating. As predicted in March, people are in for a seemingly permanent struggle between us (science) and nature (evolution). People keep coming up with new and better vaccines, but ...

  As if the pandemic and rising inflation weren’t enough, Europeans face another source of wintry discontent: an energy crisis. A supply crunch has caused the price of power to hit record highs, just in time for the coldest season. It also risks exacerbating a worrying situation in Ukraine. With Russia massing forces on the border, Europe’s dependence on Russian ...

  Bloomberg The billionaire dynasty behind Selfridges & Co has sold the British department store operator to a Thai-Austrian joint venture for about 4 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) in one of the biggest UK retail deals in years. The Weston family said Central Group, which is owned by the Chirathivats, one of Asia’s wealthiest families, and Signa Holding of Austria, ...