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A single West African currency

One currency for 15 nations - what difference would it make?

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Supermarket archaeology

What can soap boxes, sweet wrappers and tin cans tell us about our shopping history?

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Coronavirus: Fake news goes viral

Misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak is undermining efforts to contain it

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Firestone and Liberia

River pollution and labour rights violations on the world's biggest rubber plantation

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Trump's immigration crackdown

How fewer Latin Americans crossing the US border is affecting the economy

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Moving Uighur workers in China

New evidence of the mass-transportation of forced labour to Chinese factories

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Do stock-pickers have a future?

Research suggests they underperform robot traders, and most can't even beat the market

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Coronavirus: Global recession?

Could the disruption caused by the pandemic push the world into technical recession?

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The great face hack

Facial recognition firm Clearview scraped billions of people's photos off social media

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The superforecasters

How to predict the future and beat the wisdom of the crowds

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The psychology of panic buying

How the spread of coronavirus is changing consumer behaviour

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How to stop coronavirus crashing your economy

As much of Italy quarantines itself, what can authorities do to keep businesses afloat?

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The great North Korean crypto hack

Crypto-currency and cybercrime have helped continue fund the DPRK's nuclear programme

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Wet markets and the coronavirus

Where the coronavirus came from and why these diseases aren't a one-off

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Coronavirus: Can the risk be contained?

The US has slashed interest rates, and public life is halting across the Western world

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Can airlines survive coronavirus?

Airlines are cancelling flights and temporarily cutting staff

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Can the private sector help struggling hospitals?

Private firms are stepping in to fill the gaps in the world's coronavirus strategies

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Coronavirus: Where's the joined-up thinking?

What can be learned from East Asia's response to Covid-19, and from Ebola in West Africa?

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Life under lockdown

Some of the world鈥檚 poorest areas are suffering under tough measures to combat Covid-19

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Do we have the right data on coronavirus?

Why a cruise ship may provide some of the answers we desperately need.

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The working from home challenge

Snapshots of working from home across the world

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Are there exit strategies for coronavirus?

China is beginning to ease restrictions as they claim cases of coronavirus have fallen

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The cost of lockdown in the developing world

The region's poorest say they 'fear hunger may kill us before coronavirus'

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Giving care in crisis

The mental health of workers on the frontline of the coronavirus epidemic

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Coronavirus: Preppers and the Pandemic

Survival equipment and bunkers are in high demand during the coronavirus outbreak

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Coronavirus in confinement

How much social distancing is possible when you're locked up?

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Coronavirus: The race to find a treatment

Researchers rush to identify drugs that might cut the number of deaths from Covid-19

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Will there be a vaccine?

A vaccine would end the coronavirus pandemic, but how many months will it take?

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Coronavirus pushes Europe to the edge

As the deaths continue to rise, Italians are asking why the EU is doing so little to help

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Who will foot the coronavirus bill?

Governments are spending trillions of dollars to rescue their economies from the pandemic

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