Seven-year-old coder Sergey gets job offer from Russian IT firm

A Russian software company has invited a seven-year-old coding prodigy to join its management team, as soon as he is old enough to take up paid employment. Sergey from the Russian city of St Petersburg has built a name for himself, uploading videos that explain how to write software since he was five. On the strength of those videos, the information security firm Pro32 sent him a written job offer,

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World’s most indebted oil firm is headache for new Mexico leader

Getty Images Former President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador celebrates with successor Claudia Sheinbaum After handing the reins of power to Claudia Sheinbaum on 1 October, Mexico’s outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, hoisted her arm aloft in a joint show of victory. López Obrador – a hugely popular but controversial figure in Mexico – bequeathed more than just the presidential sash to his political protégé. She inherits a nation, and

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