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10 maps that explain the world
From countries that have had female leaders to the most population-dense regions, here's a compilation of unusual maps that help us understand how the world works
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Investing (Five levels to become the master investor; Buy-and-hold myth; Green investing has shortcomings), Business (Coronavirus rips a hole in newspapers' business models; Meet the 13-year-old entrepreneurs), Lifestyle (Why so many smart people aren't happy) and Geopolitics (Art of war and Sino-Indian business).
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What will happen with weddings?
How people marry will evolve, and many of the adjustments that we have seen over the last few months are here to stay—sanitiser stations, more room for standing and several smaller celebrations instead of one big bash, for instance
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The team that Liverpool forgot
Liverpool's men have added a Premier League crown to their European and world titles, while the club's underpowered, overlooked women's team has just been relegated
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'Hamilton' is coming to the small screen. This is how it got there
The public will now finally get a chance to see a live-capture of the stage show. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Disney, which last year outbid competing studios for the rights to the film, announced that it would forgo a planned theatrical release and instead stream it on Disney Plus starting July 3
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Lightning and violent rainstorms kill scores in India
The victims included many farmers working in their fields and children playing outside. At least 83 were reported killed by lightning in Bihar alone
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Tracing the multi-billion dollar fairness cream market in India
In the past few weeks, HUL dropped 'fair' from Fair & Lovely, and Shaadi.com shut down its 'skin tone' filter. But through Bollywood, matrimonial ads and other forms of media, colorism pre-dates colonialism in South Asia, reinforcing systemic differences in caste and class
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HUL drops 'Fair' from 'Fair & Lovely' cream name
HUL's decision to change the name of the 45-year-old brand comes as several global peers have shuttered brands with racist names
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45 years since the Emergency. What led to it?
A timeline of major events related to the Emergency, imposed on June 25, 1975
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It's time to end racism in the fashion industry. But how?
Everyone thinks the industry needs to change. They don't yet agree on how
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IMF predicts deeper global downturn even as economies reopen
The IMF cautioned that its forecast was more uncertain than usual because the trajectory of the pandemic remained hard to predict. Even in countries where infection rates are declining, major obstacles such as the hindrance to travel, mobility and consumption persist