Bill Gates, the philanthropist and Microsoft chairman, has signalled renewed support for the worlds leading multilateral health funding agency with an unusually-structured $750m donation to accelerate programmes to tackle lethal infectious diseases among the poor. The Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria will receive the money within five years, but with the option...
British Airways faces a bill of nearly $75m, the highest of any airline, when carriers around the world are brought into the European Union’s carbon emissions trading scheme next year, a new study estimates.
China’s rapidly expanding satellite programme could alter power dynamics in Asia and reduce the US military’s scope for operations in the region, according to new research.Chinese reconnaissance satellites can now monitor targets for up to six hours a day, the World Security Institute, a Washington think-tank, has concluded in a new report. The People’s...