| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Tuesday, May 4, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Bill and Melinda Gates split, millennials take a shine to lab-made diamonds, and an expletive-laced war of words over the South China Sea | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Rescuers work at a site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it at Olivos station in Mexico City, May 3, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Cortes WORLD At least 23 people were killed and 65 were hospitalized when a railway overpass and train collapsed onto a busy road in Mexico City, crushing cars under fallen carriages and rubble.
India halted its most popular sports tournament and the country’s opposition chief called for a nationwide lockdown as the number of coronavirus infections climbed past 20 million, a dismal milestone crossed only by the United States.
China urged the Philippines to observe "basic etiquette" and eschew megaphone diplomacy after the southeast Asian nation's foreign minister used an expletive-laced Twitter message to demand that China's vessels leave disputed waters.
Diplomatic dance or standoff? While North Korea's barrage of complaints about Biden's policies over the weekend might appear to be ratcheting up tensions, some signs suggest Pyongyang hasn't ruled out diplomacy with the new team in Washington.
| BUSINESS Pfizer has forecast $26 billion in sales of the COVID-19 vaccine this year, an increase of more than 70% from its last projection. The vaccine, which it co-developed with Germany's BioNTech, generated $3.5 billion in revenue in the first quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $3.28 billion.
The Biden administration has approved a major solar energy project in the California desert that will be capable of powering nearly 90,000 homes. Biden has vowed to expand development of renewable energy projects on public lands as part of a broader agenda to fight climate change and create jobs.
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders can accept Chairman Warren Buffett's hostility to bitcoin, blank-check acquisition firms and wild bets on trading app Robinhood. But when it comes to environmental, social and corporate governance standards, many are drawing a line.
Pandora, the jewellery maker best know for its silver charm bracelets, is to stop selling mined diamonds and focus on more affordable, sustainable, lab-grown gems. The move comes amid a growing acceptance of man-made diamonds by millennials attracted to cheaper stones guaranteed not to have come from conflict zones.
| | | | | | | | | Video of the day  Italy unveils new hi-tech floor design for Colosseum The flexible floor will give tourists a clearer idea of how the arena would have looked when gladiators fought to the death there. | | | | And finally… Mounted archers take aim in Gaza  "I want to revive this sport and to encourage youth to practise it because it helps release bad energy," says Mohammad Abu Musaed, who is training the first team of horseback archers in the Gaza Strip. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
