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The number of new cases per week has nearly doubled over the past two months, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

The U.S. should go ahead with President Biden’s plan to raise the federal minimum wage as a way to recover faster from the Covid crisis, the OECD said.

Ryanair’s CEO O’Leary used to be “one of the original skeptics” but says the airline is now focusing on greener initiatives.

British police say they have charged a London man who was spotted carrying an ax near Buckingham Palace

The price of oil could plunge to as little as $10 a barrel by 2050 if the world succeeds in meeting Paris Agreement goals, a consultancy said on Thursday. 

German online bank N26 is launching insurance policies in partnership with local start-up Simplesurance.

It comes after a dataset of 533 million Facebook users worldwide was made available on the internet.

The International Monetary Fund expects Europe’s economy to return to pre-crisis levels in 2022, assuming that Covid vaccines soon become widely available.

Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman has warned that the pandemic has pushed back sustainable development goals 20-30 years, in terms of exacerbating inequality. 

Perhaps the most keenly-missed social hotspot — pubs — are able to welcome customers to their gardens on Monday.

Cameron, who led the U.K. from 2010 to 2016, reportedly sent text messages about Greensill to ministers including Finance Minister Rishi Sunak.

“It needs one lockdown to break the current wave,” Jens Spahn, German health minister, said at a press conference Friday.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has said she will not attend the high-profile United Nations climate change summit if current vaccination trends continue. 

Economist William Jackson said the IMF plan “won’t prevent the need for debt restructuring in countries where debt trajectories are on unsustainable paths.”

The IMF is praising the U.S. for extraordinary stimulus but is warning that these measures can cause longer-term damage to worldwide economies.

Bankers who have spoken to CNBC feel the industry has continually been neglected throughout Brexit talks.

The International Monetary Fund’s projections suggest the U.S. will experience a solid economic recovery in 2021, in contrast to many other countries.

“China is really an impressive example of an outlier in the positive sense,” the IMF’s Tobias Adrian told CNBC Tuesday.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson also confirmed that shops, hairdressers, gyms and outdoor hospitality venues like pubs could open from April 12 as planned.

Amateur investors explain how they feel after Deliveroo’s disastrous IPO on the London Stock Exchange.