We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Although China became one of the first countries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, analysts have confirmed parts of the economy will struggle to recover in the long-term. China’s gross domestic product […]

Ukrainian TV presenter, 28, suffers horrific facial injuries after being viciously beaten by a stranger who tried to rape her in front of her six-year-old son on a train Anastasia Lugova, 28, was assaulted by Vitaliy Rudzko, 45, in train compartment She was travelling to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday with her six-year-old son Zakhar  Rudzko faces […]

BELFAST (Reuters) – John Hume, a Roman Catholic architect of Northern Ireland’s Good Friday peace agreement who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending 30 years of sectarian violence, died on Monday at the age of 83, his SDLP party said. Hume, who is credited with kick-starting peace negotiations in the British […]

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second-biggest city Melbourne already under night curfew announced fresh restrictions on industries on Monday, including retail and construction, as it steps up desperate efforts to contain the spread of a resurgent coronavirus. From Wednesday night, Melbourne will close retail, some manufacturing and administrative businesses as part of a six week lockdown […]

Entrepreneurs in oil-rich Nigeria are finding it difficult to weather the economic fallout of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and a plummeting currency. Amid the lockdown a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia sent the price of the fossil fuel tumbling, dragging down the value of the Nigerian currency with it. With the naira still volatile […]

Microsoft said on Sunday they spoke with President Trump about acquiring trendy social app TikTok  — and Trump gave its parent company ByteDance 45 days to strike a deal. The time frame agreed to by the president, which was confirmed by two sources to Reuters, aligns with Microsoft’s stated intentions of wrapping up talks with […]

Iconoclast: Repression Unbound The Harper’s magazine “Open Letter” many journalists, academics and others signed in opposition to cancel culture wasn’t mere whining, as critics charge — but rather, signer John McWhorter explains at Quillette, it was ­resistance to a “poisonous” judgmentalism that has “demoted, shunned and personally vilified” anyone who opposes liberal opinion. In this […]

White House experts say coronavirus ‘extraordinarily widespread’ in the US   The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections “extraordinarily widespread” in rural areas as well as cities, White House coronavirus experts said on Sunday. Coronavirus cases continue to surge in some parts of the country and the […]

Mother of Charlie Gard is ‘nervous but excited’ for the imminent birth of her second child – three years after tragically losing her first son Connie Yates is ‘nervous but excited’ about becoming a parent for a second time Charlie’s tragic fight gripped the world after he was born with a rare condition  During Charlie’s […]

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines said on Sunday it would reimpose a stricter lockdown in and around its capital for two weeks from midnight of Aug. 4, as the country struggles to contain coronavirus infections that have jumped to more than 100,000 cases. President Rodrigo Duterte has approved placing Metro Manila and nearby provinces such […]