The West African country of Togo has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Wednesday.
Chinese stocks ended lower on Wednesday after a private-sector survey showed the country's services activity expanded at the slowest pace in five months in June, while escalating Sino-U.S. tensions also dented investor sentiment.
Dramatic swings between extreme heat and intense rainfall are testing China's ability to cope with increasingly wild weather, as high temperatures challenge power grids and water security while floods ruin crops and threaten urban populations.
Adidas said on Wednesday that its HR chief Amanda Rajkumar would leave the company this month after less than three years in the role, becoming the third board member to do so since Bjorn Gulden took over as CEO.
South African food producers, among the biggest on the continent, are spending hundreds of millions of rand mitigating prolonged rolling power blackouts, water supply issues and crumbling infrastructure.
People across much of the Netherlands were told to stay indoors as a rare summer storm hit the Dutch coast early on Wednesday, packing winds of up to 145 kilometres (90 miles) per hour and severely disrupting air and rail traffic.
Australia's weather bureau said the threshold to declare El Nino has not yet been crossed, despite the World Meteorological Organization announcing the weather pattern had emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years.
China's manufacturing sector contracted for the third straight month in June. The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) came in at
49.0, a slight improvement on May but still below the 50-point mark that separates expansion from contraction.
Mexico corn production is estimated at 28.5 million metric tons this year, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday, as the Latin American country defends its plan to limit the use of genetically-modified corn.
Soft wheat exports from the European Union in the 2022/23 season that ended on June 30 reached 31.1 million metric tons, up 12% from the previous year, European Commission data showed on Tuesday.
Airbus is stepping up testing of radical new wing technology as the planemaker lays the foundation for a future successor to its best-selling A320 series, but faces a battle to bring down costs.