The UK economic slump because of Covid-19 will be less severe than expected, but its recovery will also take longer, the Bank of England has said. Forrás: BBC.com

The government has urged pharmaceutical firms to have six weeks' worth of drugs stockpiled, in readiness for the end of the Brexit transition period. Forrás: BBC.com

Europe's Rosetta probe has ended its mission to Comet 67P by crash-landing on to the icy object's surface. Forrás: BBC.com

My dad, a former Wall Street trader always advised me “cash is king” and to “hold on to it” when the economy gets tough. Forras. BBC.com

Imagine seeing your child suffering from malaria, one of the biggest killers of children across the world. Symptoms include high fever, sweating, vomiting and convulsions. Forrás: BBC.com

A young woman politician who attacked sexism in Germany's governing Christian Democrat (CDU) party has won praise from many fellow politicians but some have also questioned her motives. Forrás: BBC.com

Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato and 64 other bankers have gone on trial in Madrid over an alleged credit card racket at Spain's troubled Bankia bank. Forrás: BBC.com

Four Cuban baseball stars who defected to work in the United States have been reunited with their relatives on a return trip to Havana. Forrás: BBC.com

It’s before dawn and Josh Manheimer is already at work and deep in thought. Today he’s imagining the perfect sentence that will make people tear open an envelope as soon as it hits their doormat. Forrás: BBC.com

For more than a century we have been broadcasting our presence to the cosmos. This year, the faintest signals from the world’s first major televised event – the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics – will have passed several potentially habitable planets. The first season of Game of Thrones has already…