BRUSSELS: You're stuck in lockdown but that doesn't mean you can't visit a tropical island, a space station or have games night with your friends - certain video games have filled the need of the world's confined for a bit of distraction, adventure and socialising and achieved unexpected success...
LONDON: London will enjoy a very strong year for stock market flotations, analysts say, arguing that both Brexit and COVID-19 offer firms a unique opportunity to expand. Various big-name businesses that have seen booming online demand from home-bound customers during COVID-19 lockdowns have ...
WASHINGTON: When COVID-19 first swarmed the United States, one health insurer called some customers with a question: Do you have enough to eat? Oscar Health wanted to know if people had adequate food for the next couple of weeks and how they planned to stay stocked up while hunkering...
Britain's Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal
SINGAPORE: Burgers may be a rare indulgence for some, but for 30-year-old Ivan Yee, he has them several times a week. The foodie estimates that he has eaten about 100 burgers over the past 10 months, proclaiming on his Instagram page where he shares reviews of his meals: “I can...
If he were alive today, even St. Paul would be texting, Tweeting and firing off emails to get the news out, Pope Francis said on Saturday in his message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Social Communication.
Mobile phone and internet services in Russia suffered outages on Saturday as police cracked down on anti-Kremlin protesters, the monitoring site downdetector.ru showed.
PUNE, India: The tiny clinking vials supervised by silent PPE-wearing technicians belie the excitement inside the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India, a major player in the fight against coronavirus. The firm, founded in 1966 in the western city of Pune, is producing ...
SINGAPORE: Facebook users across the world were automatically logged out from their accounts on Saturday (Jan 23). The question "Why did Facebook log me out?" ricocheted on various social media platforms as Facebook users sought to find the cause of the issue. Many took to Twitter to express ......
PARIS: Google and a French publishers' lobby said on Thursday (Jan 21) they had agreed a copyright framework under which the US tech giant will pay news publishers for content online, in a first for Europe. The move paves the way for individual licensing agreements for French publications, some...
