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Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund lost 11%, or $164.7 billion, in the three months ended March, it said in Tokyo on Friday.The results come just months after the fund revamped top management and revised its asset allocation to focus more on overseas debt.Overseas bonds were the only major asset to generate a positive quarterly return.The…
French churches, Italian soccer stadiums and Austrian ski bars. A cruise ship, the Diamond Princess, would become a deadly harbinger of symptomless spreading.ImageLondon’s Columbia Road flower market was packed as usual in March.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York TimesImageOfficers in protective gear boarded the the Diamond Princess in February to move a person with the…
A health worker takes samples from a man to test him for Covid-19 coronavirus. The World Health Organisation says the world is in a "new and dangerous" phase of the coronavirus pandemicMore than 150 000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported to WHO on Thursday The virus has killed at least 454 000 people and infected more…
By Adam Vaughan Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, BrazilBRUNO KELLY/Reuters/PA Images “I think when you’re sitting in Europe, you feel like you just had the epidemic and everyone’s coming out of it. It feels like it’s over with. But it’s actually just at the start in every country in some ways,” says Azra Ghani at…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…