United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that international “cooperation is eroding” in the world, during a media briefing where he took aim at one – maybe two – powerful countries ...

Guterres warns against erosion of international law and cooperation Multilateralism under assault, secretary-general says, amid global conflicts, US funding cuts Guterres prioritizes AI governance to ...

This paper investigates the one-dimensional cutting stock problem considering two conflicting objective functions: minimization of both the number of objects and the number of different cutting ...

You finish a drink at the bar, friends arrive and a table opens. You grab your glass, head to the dining room and ask a simple question: "Can you transfer my tab?" For bartenders, that routine request ...

The G-20 presidency of South Africa ended last November with the release of a report on global inequality. It was authored by a G-20 committee of independent experts chaired by Nobel Prize winner ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The annual World Economic Forum confab known as Davos has always had an optics ...

Rio Tinto chief Simon Trott inherited a bunch of long-standing problems when he took charge of the miner last year, but a deal with Glencore could solve all of them if structured in the right way. Rio ...

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to There is one political problem from which all others ...

Scientists may have just made a breakthrough in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF)—one that could sidestep a well-known pitfall for some women who undergo the procedure. In a preliminary study ...

Allan Sun is a software and systems engineer at Apple, where he works on real-time system software and infrastructure for Apple’s in-house 5G modem silicon platforms (C1X), one of the company’s most ...