Facebook has blocked Australian users of its platform from reading and sharing local and international news, stepping up its campaign against government plans to force technology giants to pay publishers for their news content. “The proposed law fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between our platform and publishers who use it to share news content,” Facebook said […]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had held the title for over three years until last month, regained his number one position with a net wealth of $191.2 billion, or $955 million more than Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reclaimed his lost title as the world’s richest person; after he knocked Tesla chief […]
New Zealand has announced that it will withdraw its last remaining troops from Afghanistan by May, concluding a 20-year deployment that was the country’s longest-running one. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s internal peace process represented the best prospect for an enduring political solution in the troubled country; meaning the New Zealand […]
Ahmedabad: A 19-year-old woman from Mumbai, who came to the city to work as a hostess at catering events, was allegedly gang-raped on Sunday night by two men after she had passed out. The accused are Sahil Shaikh, the catering contractor, and his friend Taskeen Qureshi. The crime is said to have occurred in the […]
At least three people in Guinea have died from Ebola and an additional four people have been confirmed to be infected, according to the country’s health authorities. The cases announced by the health ministry on Sunday are the first since the deadly Ebola epidemic ravaged the country, alongside Liberia and Sierra Leone, five years ago. […]
London: UK government scientific advisers say the Covid-19 variant now predominant in the country may be up to 70 percent more deadly than previous variants, underscoring concerns about how mutations may change the characteristics of the disease. The findings from the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group; published Friday on the government’s website, […]
Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 coronavirus vaccines, a donation by the Chinese government. Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga were at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the capital; Harare, in the early hours of Monday for the arrival of the doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China. “It has not been lost […]
Karachi: A first-year college student was abducted and later gang-raped in Karachi, police said on Friday, adding that the main suspect along with three accomplices has been arrested. According to the first information report (FIR) filed with Malir Police, the victim is a resident of the Gulshan-e-Hadeed area and the complaint was filed by her […]
Alphabet Inc’s Google has agreed to pay $76m over three years to a group of French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents seen by Reuters news agency show, a deal one news publishers’ lobby deemed unfair. The two documents, seen by Reuters and disclosed publicly for the first time; include […]
A company catering to women and led by women has made its 31-year-old female founder a billionaire. Bumble Inc., the owner of the dating app where women make the first move, sold shares in its upcoming trading debut at $43, valuing Chief Executive Officer Whitney Wolfe Herd’s stake at more than $900 million and lifting […]
