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Nov 11, 2019

Single’s Day: $1 billion in sales in one minute 8 seconds

China’s Alibaba rakes in tens of billions on the world’s biggest online shopping day. Australia’s worst wildfires in a decade head towards Sydney. Africa’s first commercial gene bank launches in Nigeria.

A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute 36 seconds of Singles Day sales, as it reaches about 1,429,510,821 USD in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on November 11, 2019.
A screen shows the gross merchandise volume, a measure of sales, after 1 minute 36 seconds of Singles Day sales, as it reaches about 1,429,510,821 USD in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province early on November 11, 2019.
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