Encrypted messaging app Signal hit by late Sunday outage

• Internet outage monitor DownDetector said users began reporting network problems late Sunday.
• Signal saw a surge in downloads earlier this year after WhatsApp tweaked its terms of service and sparked privacy concerns.

UN needs another $100trn for SDGs

• The 17 SDGs are goals that the UN set forward in 2015, which would be accepted by all its members states, to build a better planet
• They include, but are not limited to goals like No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well Being, Quality Education, and Gender Equality

SpaceX tourist crew whiz around Earth

• Inspiration4 is the first orbital spaceflight with only private citizens aboard
• The mission also brings the total number of humans currently in space to 14

Price tag on the planet? Helping business value nature

• Experts are divided on how to measure "natural capital", and some argue that it should not be done at all.
• As the IUCN World Conservation Congress kicks off in France on Friday, conservation of nature will remain an urgent question.

Developing countries to get $275bn of IMF reserves

• The IMF's last SDR distribution came in 2009 when member countries received $250 billion in SDR reserves to help ease the global financial crisis.
• The possibility of a new trust is being explored, which could use channeled SDRs to help the most vulnerable countries with structural transformation.

No survivors in Turkey fire-fighting plane crash

• The air tragedy came just as Turkey was gaining control over hundreds of wildfires that killed eight people and destroyed swathes of forest along the scenic southern coast
• Scientists believe such natural disasters are becoming more intense and frequent because of global warming caused by polluting emissions

MENA connectedness ranking rising: Survey

• Ranks third among the world’s seven regions and is well above the global average.
• UAE is the highest ranked in the region, and the fourth country globally, in terms of overall global connectedness.

Covid returns to China’s Wuhan: Global Delta variant woes mount

Covid-19 has disrupted breastfeeding support services: WHO

Over 700 migrants saved from Mediterranean this weekend