![Lego makes almost 100,000 tonnes of plastic bricks a year and is trying to make a product using plant-based material [File: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/369292583.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Plastic waste and new technology to produce alternatives to plastic are focus areas for the family’s investment fund.
Business and Economy
![Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that Beijing will continue its anti-COVID-19 cooperation with the World Health Organization and other countries and do more to help developing countries defeat the virus [Kevin Yao/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-20T022423Z_220920735_RC2EZM9QEEY5_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-BOAO.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Chinese leader says global affairs cannot be decided by just a few countries as rivalry with US intensifies.
![Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland watches Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she delivers the budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa [Blair Gable/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-19T203952Z_2034701177_RC28ZM9Q58IY_RTRMADP_3_CANADA-BUDGET.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Amid surging third wave, Trudeau government unveils first budget in two years with focus on COVID-19 recovery measures.
![Facing sanctions by the West, embattled Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko met Russia Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Minsk on April 16 [Alexander Astafyev/ Sputnik via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-16T102855Z_1585256928_RC2YWM98V6LQ_RTRMADP_3_BELARUS-RUSSIA.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
New US sanctions are aimed at state-owned enterprises that support the government of Belarus President Lukashenko.
![Social media app Parler was removed from Apple's App Store in January after it was one of the online platforms used to incite violence at the United States Capitol [File: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/366852267.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Apple, which faces an anti-trust hearing on Capitol Hill this week, said Monday it will reinstate Parler to App Store.
![Shares of Elon Musk’s automaker fell as much as 6.5 percent in New York trading on Monday following a fatal crash of a Model S over the weekend and deepening concerns that electric vehicle startups could lose their competitive edge to mass-market rivals [File: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2017-07-06T080750Z_44755053_RC175A99E030_RTRMADP_3_SOUTHKOREA-AUTOS-USA.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Crash of a Tesla Model S over the weekend heaped even more pessimism on to electric vehicle stocks.
![Scarves of the English Premier League clubs who are part of a proposed European Super League [Alastair Grant/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP_21109385893529.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
UEFA threatens to ban clubs and players joining a breakaway Super League that has plunged European football into crisis.
![George Sherman's move to step down as CEO comes as Ryan Cohen, co-founder and former CEO of online pet food company Chewy Inc, tightens his grip on GameStop after taking over as chairman earlier this month [File: Charlie Neibergall/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AP_21028639254382.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Embraced by Reddit-fuelled day traders, GameStop said its CEO will step down by July 31 and is searching for successor.
![The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak took to Twitter on Monday to describe a possible new UK digital currency as 'Britcoin' [File: Tolga Akmen/Pool via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-03-07T000000Z_1081785391_RC2C6M9YQ5Z9_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LABOUR.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
United Kingdom authorities are thinking of creating a new digital currency to be issued by the central bank.
![A group of the world's richest football clubs including, Liverpool Football Club, have signed a binding agreement to commit to remaining part of of the Super League, sources tell Bloomberg [Carl Recine/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-19T124147Z_1077125057_RC20ZM9HM6V9_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-EUROPE-BREAKAWAY.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
JPMorgan Chase is bankrolling the biggest disruption of European football since the 1950s, sources tell Bloomberg.
![A Lebanese woman stands next to her empty refrigerator in her apartment in the port city of Tripoli north of Beirut [File: Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_1TN9ME.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Aid groups are struggling to feed thousands of vulnerable families in Lebanon amid highest food inflation in the world.
Food prices across Lebanon are soaring as the country goes through its worst economic crisis in decades.
![Investors, analysts and Cuban citizens will all be watching this weekend's congress closely — and seeing how many more of the country's so-called 'historic generation' actually depart, as Raul Castro (centre) has. That, experts say, will be crucial to knowing whether economic change is actually in the cards or whether business will continue as usual [File: Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/AP19355685980477.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
EDITOR'S ANALYSIS
As Cuba turns page on Castro era, economic reform gains urgency
Cuba is now confronting new and dire economic challenges along with historic ones.
Brazil’s former leader discusses issue of him returning to power and the ‘political persecution’ against him.
