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How Dolly Parton became the world’s best-loved celebrity bbc.com How did Dolly Parton become one of the world’s most-loved celebrities? Dorian Lynskey explores the singer’s appeal.

UN appeals for $35 billion to help world’s ‘most vulnerable and fragile’ in 2021 news.un.org A record 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection next year, a near- 40 per cent increase on 2020 which is “almost entirely from CO...

Ranked: The Biggest Companies in the World in 2021 visualcapitalist.com The 100 biggest companies in the world were worth a record-breaking $31.7 trillion as of the end of Q1, up 48% year-over-year.

2020 was a terrible year. But the world's in better shape than you might think edition.cnn.com In 2020, a devastating virus officially disappeared from the continent it had once ravaged -- a remarkable public health achievement that followed decades of wo...

Canva: Australian online design platform valued at $40bn bbc.com The online design platform has become one of the most valuable private firms in the world.

Apple’s Strategy Bends the World nytimes.com How Apple’s business tactics, partly driven by fear, affect the rest of us.