OAKLAND, Calif: Walmart Inc, Best Buy Co Inc and hundreds of smaller retailers are bolstering their online gift features, hoping to challenge Amazon.com...
OAKLAND, Calif: Walmart Inc, Best Buy Co Inc and hundreds of smaller retailers are bolstering their online gift features, hoping to challenge Amazon.com...
Madrid: Spain will have vaccinated a large part of its population of 47 million against the coronavirus by mid-2021, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez...
BRUSSELS/LONDON: Car manufacturers will need to meet tight emissions limits for their activities to be classed as a sustainable investment under proposed European...
LONDON - Britain could ease its stringent COVID-19 lockdown to allow families to gather for Christmas because there are signs that coronavirus cases...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported a spike in daily coronavirus cases to 26 on Friday, two days before an arrangement with Singapore...
SEOUL - South Korea's prime minister on Friday pleaded with the public to avoid social gatherings and warned that tougher measures may be...
SINGAPORE - Singapore is set to charge an activist with staging a one-man protest without a permit over an incident in which he...
Beijing - China's aviation regulator will not yet allow Boeing's troubled 737 MAX jet to fly in the company's biggest market owing to...
SYDNEY - South Australia's drastic six-day coronavirus lockdown was triggered by a "lie" to contact tracers from a man who tested positive and...
BEIJING - A decision by the Communist Party of China to raise the retirement age under a long-term economic and development plan has...
LONDON - Gilead's remdesivir is not recommended for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, regardless of how ill they are, as there is no evidence...
MOSCOW - Some Russian hospitals are experiencing serious shortages of drugs used to treat COVID-19 and cannot restock because of panic buying, high...
NEW DELHI - India’s total number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began crossed 9 Million on Friday. Nevertheless, the country’s new daily...
Brussels - The European Union could approve two coronavirus vaccines being tested by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna before the end of next month,...
Washington - BuzzFeed said Thursday it was acquiring HuffPost in a deal uniting two digital media pioneers seeking fresh momentum in a troubled...
Tokyo - Asking someone to put on a mask is a touchy subject, so one shop in Japan has enlisted a robot to...
Sao Paulo - The spread of the new coronavirus is "completely out of control" on the Yanomami indigenous reservation in Brazil, where cases...
New Delhi - Officials in India's capital on Thursday quadrupled the fines dished out for people not wearing face masks as coronavirus cases...