Officials are warning residents along Florida’s gulf coast to prepare for a possibly “life-threatening hurricane”, which is due to strike later this week.

STOCKHOLM – Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, pioneers in adapting the western economic growth model to focus on environmental issues and sharing the benefits of technology, won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday.

A co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is calling for the world to do more to fight genocide and sexual violence.

UN report says limiting global warming to nearly a single degree or so could mean the difference between life and death for many people and ecosystems in the coming decades.

Central bank slashes the reserve requirements for banks, freeing extra cash for infrastructure and businesses

Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote has said he needs 38 visas to travel within the continent on his Nigerian passport. Many European nationals, meanwhile, waltz into most Africans countries visa-free.

African nations were supposed to scrap visa requirements for all African citizens by 2018.

MILAN/BERLIN – Germany on Sunday denied an Italian newspaper report that it planned to fly migrants back to Italy, after the allegation drew a threat from Italy’s Interior Minister to refuse landing permission to unauthorised planes carrying asylum seekers.

LONDON – Citigroup is setting up a new British bank, headquartered in London, to house its UK consumer business after Brexit, according to a note to customers reviewed by Reuters on Friday.

Chefs at Ichigo Ichie in Cork city, Mews in Baltimore and Chestnut in Ballydehob recognised

According to the national registry, about 18% of the nation’s 37,435 missing are minors, a problem largely unrecognized