If you own or operate a business, partnering with Bank of America could be your smartest move. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Haseena is the world's longest-serving female head of state. Spanish language music is having a moment - not just in the Spanish-speaking world, but everywhere.
Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive growth and reforms in a notoriously corrupt country—but that same firm hand may now be limiting Bangladesh’s progress. Our correspondent visits the frontier of a potentially transformative technology for reducing atmospheric carbon: direct air capture. And a listen to the astonishing boom in Spanish-language music.
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