When it comes to a comfortable retirement, women in the US have the cards stacked against them. New efforts to start changing this are laudable, and yet they’re still missing the mark because they’re being shaped by decades of misperceptions. The inequities a woman faces throughout her working life — from earning less to shouldering the lion’s share of ...

  Italian politics bears a striking resemblance to South American telenovelas: filled with episodes of unrequited love, bizarre couplings and multiple breakups. Narrative lines reach a fever pitch of crisis before an unexpected turn of events makes everything right — the deus-ex-machina moment. That’s the climax in ancient dramas when a god is swung on stage by a machine to ...

  Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd signalled a stronger second-half outlook even as Chief Executive Officer Augustus Tang told staff Hong Kong’s status has been hammered by Covid travel restrictions that continue to shackle the city. While Hong Kong’s main airline said its first-half net loss narrowed to HK$5.3 billion ($675 million) from HK$7.9 billion a year earlier, Tang said ...