NEW DELHI: Huge swarms of desert locusts are destroying crops across western and central India, prompting authorities on Tuesday (May 26) to step up their response to the country's worst plague in nearly three decades. Drones, tractors and cars have been sent out to track the voracious pests and...
The Cannes film festival was canceled and the September jamborees in Venice and Toronto are uncertain but this week movie lovers are being offered a taste of the film festival experience from the comfort of their homes.
U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday it needs another US$1.475 billion bailout or it will be forced to make sweeping service cuts and likely suspend some routes.
U.S. consumer confidence nudged up in May, suggesting the worst of the novel coronavirus-driven economic slump was probably in the past as the country starts to reopen, but it would probably take a while to fully dig out of the hole amid record unemployment.
Merck & Co Inc , which has largely kept to the sidelines of the race for COVID-19 treatments, said it was buying Austrian vaccine maker Themis Bioscience and would collaborate with research nonprofit IAVI to develop two separate vaccines.
FRANKFURT: Lufthansa is hoping for a quick nod from the European Commission for its 9 billion euro (US$9.8 billion) bailout agreed on Monday to make sure the cash arrives in time for the company to stay afloat. "This should be a matter of days", one of the people said....
REUTERS: Arm Ltd, the semiconductor firm owned by Japan's Softbank Group Corp, on Tuesday released new technology aimed at helping Android devices catch up to Apple Inc's iPhones for certain computing tasks such as video games. Arm's technology powers the processors in both iPhones and Android ...
Qatar Airways said on Twitter on Tuesday that it planned to fly a summer schedule to over 80 destinations worldwide.
Macy's Inc said on Tuesday it planned to raise US$1.1 billion in a bond offering, backed by a first mortgage on some of its properties, to repay funds borrowed under a revolving credit facility.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is drafting contingency plans to carry out its multi-trillion bond-buying programme without the Bundesbank in case Germany's top court forces the main participant in the scheme to quit, four sources told Reuters.
