Warren Buffett Gary Miller | CNBC They say 90 is the new 70, and that may be true in the case of Vern Run Buffett. The chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway announced today on his 90th birthday that his company has acquired a slightly more than 5% stake in …
Read More »New bill for WHO vaccine plan if governments go it alone
LONDON / BRUSSELS / GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization will receive a flood of promises of support for its COVID-19 vaccine plan for all next week. FILE PHOTO: An employee is seen in the Reference Center for Special Immunobiologists (CRIE) of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) …
Read More »Japan’s ‘flying car’ comes from the ground, with one person on board
TOKYO (AP) – The decades-old dream of running in the sky as fast as driving on highways can be less illusory. Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has performed a successful, albeit modest test flight with one person on board. In a video …
Read More »Japan, in the run-up to the Olympics, produces half a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is taking an aggressive step to seize enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate its population four times, a pressure that the government hopes to instill confidence that it can host a delayed Olympic Games next year. FILE PHOTO: People in traditional costume kimonos, wearing protective masks as …
Read More »Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign over deteriorating health
Tokyo – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will step down from his role leading the country due to declining health, he said Friday. The bombshell announcement will bring a match for the premier class in the world’s third-largest economy as it wrestles with the coronavirus pandemic, the looming threat from …
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