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Two more African countries—Egypt and Ethiopia—have been invited to join BRICS, the world economic bloc that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

There’s a lot of racing to be done yet

26th January 2021 Armel Le Cleach winning the 2016-2017 Vendee Globe in January 2017, and setting a new 74-day record that now stands for another four years Credit: VG While most of us may think the actual winner of the current Vendee Globe will emerge in the next day or two from among the ranks of Charlie Dalin, Boris Herrmann, Louis Burton, Thomas Ruyant, and Yannick Bestaven as they fine-tune their downwind progress in the Bay of Biscay towards the finish at Les Sables-dOlonne, its arguable...