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The UN’s food agency has accused Houthi rebels of stealing food “from the mouths” of hungry Yemenis, hours after an investigation by the Associated Press news agency found that both sides in the conflict had stolen aid meant for the country’s most vulnerable. David Beasley, the Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP), said on Monday that his agency had collected evidence showing the Houthis had diverted shipments of food sent to help alleviate “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. “At a time when children are dying in Yemen because they haven’t enough food to eat, that is an outrage,” Beasley said. “This criminal behaviour must stop immediately”. Yemen’s four-year war and ensuing economic collapse has unleashed the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis with more than 22 million people needing some kind of aid to survive. Food prices have increased by an average of 68 percent, and the price of commodities such as petrol, diesel and cooking gas has increased by at l...

Revellers around the globe are bidding a weary farewell on Monday to an unsettling year filled with challenges to many of the world’s most basic institutions, including politics, trade, alliances and religion. Here’s a look at how people are ushering in the new year across Asia , Europe , Africa and the Americas as the clock ticks past midnight. Kiribati The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first in the world to welcome the new year, greeting 2019 with muted celebrations after spending 2018 on the front line of the battle against climate change. Kiribati is made up of low-lying atolls along the equator which intersect three time zones. Kirbati sacana, tecnicamente seria um dos últimos países à entrar no ano novo, mas decidiram mudar a “linha internacional de data” por questões de turismo. E “monetárias”, afinal o 1º é o 1º. Mas eu ainda quero dar uma volta lá. Feliz 2019 #FelizAnoNovoTrajaza #voubuscarem2019 pic.twitter.com/QXHl2HwgBq — Alexandre Callegaro (@guedxan...

Nomura In the life of a decade-long credit cycle, the global economy’s current condition shows it’s firmly heading toward a downturn, according to a new analysis from Nomura. A single cycle is historically a decade long. The beginning is marked by the end of a crisis/a cyclical bottom, and ends when credit contracts and the economy enters into a recession. The global economy today is within what Nomura calls the “credit expansion/last stage,” heading toward a plateau and then a downturn. One Wall Street strategist warns the end of the global economy’s current cycle is near.  In fact, the path to a downturn is “irreversible,” according to Naka Matsuzawa, chief Japan rates strategist at Nomura. “The global economy is already on an irreversible path to an economic downturn,” he wrote, in a sweeping report, translated to English from Japanese, about his macro investment strategies for 2019. “However, we do not expect the economy to fall suddenly into a downturn, but to recov...

Kinshasa, DRC – Vote counting has started in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘s long-delayed election as the opposition claimed it will not accept a ruling party victory. “I cannot see how Mr Shadary (the ruling party’s candidate) can win. I doubt anyone will have the courage to proclaim Shadary as the winner. It will be a provocation,” Martin Fayulu, leader of the opposition Lamuka coalition, told Al Jazeera on Monday. Sunday’s vote, which has been repeatedly postponed since 2016, was marked by long delays with many polling stations not opening and voters not finding their names on the poll register. The electoral commission (CENI) on Wednesday said at least 20 percent of the polling stations in the capital, Kinshasa, would not open because of a lack of voting machines. More than 46 million Congolese registered to take part in the election to pick a successor to President Joseph Kabila , who has ruled the mineral-rich country for 17 years.  As many as 21 candidates contest...

Under the five-year reign of CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has made major strides in reforming its once-cutthroat corporate culture — an effort that’s even seeped into how it interviews software developers. John Montgomery, partner director of program management at Microsoft, tells Business Insider that the core of cultural change is about making sure that teams are working with each other, all over the company, solving real problems for real customers. And so, Microsoft began rethinking its interview process to match that goal. Traditionally, interviews at Microsoft and elsewhere can be highly technical — like, “reverse a linked list” — and include math games, like asking candidates to figure out how many ping pong balls would fill a 747. Both these types of questions really have little to do with what employees would actually do day-to-day at work — but even Google decided to discontinue its infamous brainteasers, because they didn’t actually test for anything worthwhile . To that...