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World must work together to tackle plastic ocean t...
Plastic has infiltrated all parts of the ocean and is now found "in the smallest plankton up to the largest whale" wildlife group...
US eases Trump-era tariffs on Japanese steel
The United States will ease tariffs on steel imported from Japan, officials announced Monday, in the latest move by President Joe...
'Freedom Convoy' raises funds on Christian site af...
The organizers of a trucker-led protest in Canada against Covid mandates have turned to a Christian fundraising site after being c...
No plans to quit Europe amid data spat: Facebook's...
Facebook's parent firm Meta said Monday it has no plans to pull its services from Europe, after raising the possibility amid an on...
Mountain glaciers hold less ice than thought, and...
Mountain glaciers shrinking due to climate change are less voluminous than previously understood, putting millions who depend on t...
Stocks waver as traders eye rate hikes, Ukraine
European stock markets rose on Monday but Wall Street fell as investors track corporate earnings, expected interest rate hikes and...
Stocks rise as traders eye rate hikes, Ukraine
Stock markets in the United States and Europe mostly rose Monday as investors track corporate earnings, expected interest rate hik...
France's nuclear ambitions take shape with turbine...
French electricity giant EDF prepared Monday to close a deal for the nuclear turbines business of General Electric, the latest ste...
Stocks steady as traders mull interest rate outloo...
Stock markets largely steadied Monday with sentiment dominated by the outlook for interest rate rises as inflation soars.
Spotify CEO says won't silence Rogan over racial s...
The head of music streaming giant Spotify Daniel Ek has condemned podcaster Joe Rogan's use of a racial slur but insisted that sil...
Overmars quits Ajax over 'inappropriate' messages...
Former Dutch international Marc Overmars resigned as sporting director of Ajax after admitting sending a "series of inappropriate...
Commodities drive Indonesia economic recovery in 2...
Indonesia's economy returned to growth last year as surging commodity prices helped drive a recovery from a coronavirus-triggered...
Toshiba unveils new plan to split into two compani...
Japan's Toshiba on Monday announced plans to split into two companies, revising proposals to divide into three following a tumultu...
Asian markets mixed as US jobs data ramps up rate-...
Asian markets fluctuated in early trade on Monday as a forecast-busting US jobs report reinforced optimism that the world's top ec...
Cuba marks six decades under US sanctions
Cuba on Monday marks 60 years under a US economic blockade that has deeply affected the communist nation's fortunes and shows no s...
In-person Berlin film fest stands up to pandemic,...
The 72nd Berlin film festival opens Thursday, bucking a trend of pandemic on-the-couch streaming with a packed programme of live p...
Lata Mangeshkar 'Nightingale of India' dies aged 9...
Bollywood superstar Lata Mangeshkar, known to millions as the "Nightingale of India" and a regular fixture of the country's airwav...
Wind powers change in England's industrial heartla...
On the banks of the River Humber in northern England, the winds of change are blowing through Hull, where factory workers busily c...
Morocco boy found dead in tragic end to well ordea...
Moroccan emergency crews found a five-year-old boy dead at the bottom of a well late Saturday in a tragic end to a painstaking fiv...
Morocco bid to free boy from well reaches agonisin...
Morocco held its breath Saturday as rescue teams drew near a five-year-old boy trapped down a well for days, moving at a snail's p...
Ford curbs N.American production as chip shortage...
Major automaker Ford will cut its North American vehicle production next week due to a semiconductor shortage, US media reported S...
Metres to go in effort to free Moroccan boy from w...
Moroccan rescuers were only metres away Saturday in their nerve-wracking but increasingly urgent effort to rescue Rayan, a five-y...
Austria Covid-19 'gargle' tests in expansion drive
Throughout the day, vans loaded with bags full of Covid PCR test kits arrive at a Vienna laboratory, currently analysing an averag...
Oil prices extend gains as markets weigh strong US...
Stocks were mixed Friday as markets weighed a surprisingly good US jobs report against concerns over tightening monetary policy,...
Meta adds 'personal boundary' tool after virtual w...
Facebook parent Meta began rolling out Friday a minimum distance between users' avatars in its virtual reality Horizon network aft...
Morocco bid to free boy from well reaches nerve-wr...
Moroccan rescuers were in the nerve-wracking final stages Friday of a marathon effort to rescue Rayan, a five-year-old boy trapped...
US lawmakers advance China competition bill
US lawmakers voted Friday to greenlight a multibillion-dollar bill aimed at jumpstarting high-tech research and manufacturing, cou...
Oil prices, US jobs data weigh on stocks
A surge in oil prices to close to $93 per barrel as well as robust US jobs data weighed on stock prices Friday as they fuelled exp...
US saw surprisingly robust hiring in January despi...
The US economy brushed off a spike in Covid-19 infections to add 467,000 jobs in January, far better than expected and a potential...
EU, US thaw trade tensions further with mollusc sa...
The European Union and the United States signalled Friday a further thawing of trade tension as they agreed to resume trade in mus...
Blinken to Australia next week for Quad group meet...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to Australia next week for a Quad group ministerial meeting also involving his counte...
Mosque-goers pray for rain in drought-scorched Mor...
Mosques held prayers for rain on Friday across the parched North African kingdom of Morocco where farmers are battling an acute dr...
NATO chief Stoltenberg to head Norway central bank
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg will take over as Norway's central bank governor at the end of the year, officials said Friday, a cont...
Can Hermes and Nike stop 'unauthorised' NFTs?
As digital objects in the form of NFTs have exploded in popularity and value over the past year, so too have the legal headaches a...
Morocco rescuers close in on boy trapped in well
Moroccans waited anxiously Friday as rescuers with heavy diggers closed in on Rayan, a five-year-old boy trapped in a deep well fo...
Sri Lanka calls for diaspora investment on indepen...
Sri Lanka marked its independence day on Friday with an appeal to its diaspora to send money home to overcome the island's worseni...
Asian markets up as Hong Kong returns with rally,...
Asian markets rose Friday as a surge in Hong Kong on its first day back from a break helped overcome a sharp drop on Wall Street,...
Rotterdam says no decision on dismantling bridge f...
The Dutch port city of Rotterdam has not received a request for a permit to temporarily dismantle an historic bridge to allow a su...
Asian markets mostly rise as Hong Kong reopens, ey...
Asian markets mostly rose Friday as a rally in Hong Kong on its first day back from a break helped overcome a sharp drop on Wall S...