Bloomberg Construction work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea will resume this week, despite US sanctions designed to end the pipeline that will bring Russian gas to Germany. Pipelaying on the 9.5 billion-euro ($11.2 billion) link will restart on December 5 after being halted for a year because of the sanctions, Nord Stream 2 company ...

Having spent the past four years with the political equivalent of heavy metal music blasting outside their psychic windows late into the night, millions of Americans are hoping that the Biden administration will usher in a new era of calm. They are likely to be disappointed. To a limited extent, such wishes will be granted. Under President Joe Biden, the ...

A Covid-19 vaccine is getting closer, and governments are scrambling to meet the financial and logistical challenge of immunising their populations in a short space of time. Hopes for a pickup in global economic growth next year depend on it. But the bigger challenge may end up being psychological: How to convince people to actually take the shot. Achieving herd ...