World in 2020: Stories to read

Fashion industry cancels millions of orders worldwide

26/03/2020

Like Primark, the fashion industry's leading giants, from Inditex to New Look, have begun to halt their purchases in order to contain stock in the face of the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic. Employers in emerging countries around the world, on which the global fashion industry bases its supply, are beginning to ask the large groups not to undo...

Art in Europe bets on culture through digital platforms

16/03/2020

With the campaign #StayAtHome for the COVID-19 health contingency, museums, concert halls, and other cultural activities in Spain and other European countries have opted for virtual reality to disseminate their programming, and motivate people to stay in quarantine.

Disney launches Disney+ together with Telefonica

10/03/2020

The Walt Disney Company Iberia and Telefónica announced that Movistar will be the strategic ally for the distribution of Disney+ at its launch in Spain. Although the OTT has not yet been launched in Latin America, Telefónica has integrated Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in countries in the region, and is expected to offer its customers access to...

Doctors of the World highlights the role of teachers in the fight against female genital mutilation

06/02/2020

Doctors of the World has defended the role of teachers in preventing and fighting against female genital mutilation, as well as "interdisciplinary" work with schools, health centres and families to prevent anyone from amputating girls' right to be women.

100 years after the birth of Isaac Asimov, the titan of science fiction

31/01/2020

The year 2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Isaac Asimov, considered one of the three great writers of world science fiction, along with Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein, and one of the most prodigious minds of the 20th century.

Current food production is insufficient to feed the world

29/01/2020

The current production systems only guarantee food for 6.7 billion people, some one billion less than the world's population. With the current formulas of sustainable production, the situation would worsen: only 45.3% would receive adequate food (2,355 calories per day).

The bloody decade without alcohol

20/01/2020

The ban on alcoholic beverages in the United States marked 100 years since it went into effect, opening one of the most infamous chapters in U.S. history, that of the gangsters.

The first and largest fleet of hydrogen taxis in the world emerges

19/01/2020

To address the pollution and traffic problems in Paris, Mathieu Gardies decided to launch an electric taxi company in 2009, but by 2015 he had failed, so he decided to go for hydrogen-powered cars and founded Hype, the first 100 percent hydrogen taxi fleet.

One Christian in eight is discriminated against in the world

18/01/2020

One in eight Christians in the world suffers persecution because of their faith, 260 million people. This is the figure that emerges from the Global Watch List 2020 of the NGO Open Doors, presented on January 15 at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Minority investors like their dividend yield

16/01/2020

Spanish minority investors like dividends. The Spanish stock market was the third-largest in the world in terms of dividend yield in 2019 among the 33 largest stock market indices that make up the index provider MSCI. The dividend yield of the Continuous Market reached 4.5%, only behind the Russian and British stock markets and tied with the figure...