- Welcome to the New Casablancas: The World Cities That Stayed Open (WSJ)

- Everyone is worried the economy is 'overheating'. But what does that actually mean? (CNN)

- North Korea accuses Joe Biden of pursuing hostile policy over its nuclear programme (BBC)

- Private equity is targeting sports. Now fans and players are pushing back (CNN)

- Colonial Pipeline hack: What we know about the ransomware cyberattack (WSJ)

- Why Latin America’s economy has been so badly hurt by covid-19 (The Economist)

- America has locked up supplies of COVID vaccines that it does not need (The Economist)

- Apple's major privacy change is here. What you need to know (CNN)

- The Biden administration is considering whether to require tobacco companies to reduce the nicotine levels of all cigarettes sold in the U.S. to levels at which they are no longer addictive (WSJ)

- Jeff Bezos endorsed higher corporate tax rates. But it won't cost him much (CNN)

- Ant Group, the financial-technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, will apply to become a financial holding company (WSJ)

- Another species harmed by climate change: Japanese poets (The Economist)

- Bhutan vaccinated almost all its adults against covid-19 in a week (The Economist)

- Beijing’s building boom inspires awe in even the staunchest U.S. critics but emulating it is a different story (WSJ)

- Supreme Court hands Google a victory in a multibillion-dollar case against Oracle (CNN)

- Tokyo Olympics: North Korea to skip Games over Covid-19 fears (BBC)

- How Will China Vaccinate 560 Million People? Start With Free Ice Cream (The New York Times)

- The industry is rerouting ships and forecasting delays and congestion at ports in the longer term (WSJ)

- The container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days has been freed, opening the critical waterway, as hopes grow that global supply delays will begin to ease (WSJ)

- $300 a day for a Kia Rio. Why rental cars prices have gone insane (CNN)

- Will countries boycott China’s Olympics in 2022? (The Economist)

- Wondering how much your surgery costs? Some hospitals used embedded code to hide pricing data in search results (WSJ)

- NYPD investigating attacks on Asian Americans as potential hate or bias crimes (CNN)

- America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more (Economist)

- Stimulus payments will start going out this weekend (CNN)

- Here's what's in the Covid relief package (CNN)

- Big down payments, tight credit restrictions, low supply: The housing boom Covid launched is the opposite of the one that melted the economy a decade ago (WSJ)

- Sarah Everard vigil: Hundreds at central London event despite Priti Patel plea (BBC)

- Pakistan: How poverty and exploitation drive child marriages (DW)

- China’s Plan for Digital Yuan Imperils Bitcoin’s Biggest Markets (Bloomberg) 

- US and EU agree to suspend tariffs linked to long-running Boeing-Airbus dispute (CNN)

- Auto executives and investors buzz about EVs, but many dealers say battery-powered cars, and even hybrid models, remain a tough sell to mainstream car shoppers (WSJ)

- Trying to read body language through a screen has become another exhausting part of the workday. But there are ways to decode the nonverbal cues.

- Two of the most powerful economic voices in America disagree on a tax for the uber-rich

- China charged ahead with a national digital currency