Brexit debate: Campaigners use billboards and magazines

Brexit has created a war of words on bridges, boats and buses – some entirely false.

In Britain, campaigners on both sides of the Brexit debate are exploring new ways of getting their messages across.

Social media is one big platform.

But a group of activists that wants the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union is using more traditional techniques to gain online attention.

Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports from London.

Hospitals in Yemen unable to cope with swine flu

Yemen’s crumbling hospitals are overwhelmed by a new health crisis, an outbreak of swine flu.

Yemen’s war-ravaged hospitals have a new health emergency while trying to deal with swine flu.

It adds to a severe cholera outbreak in a country where millions of people are weakened by starvation.

Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta reports.

Mara Cherkassky transforms phone booths into artwork

Historian Mara Cherkassky is working with sculptor Charles Bergen on a downtown call boxes project.

Relics of a bygone era are set to become unique street art in Washington, DC.

Call boxes became increasingly redundant in the mobile phone era.

But an historian is hoping to give the boxes a new lease of life and celebrate the women of Washington, DC at the same time.

US: Pharmaceutical heads urged by congress to curb drug prices

The heads of seven top companies have given evidence before a Senate finance committee on the rising cost of medicines.

The heads of seven top pharmaceutical companies in the United States have been urged to do more to lower drug prices for consumers.

The industry leaders were giving testimony before a Senate finance committee on the rising cost of medicines.

It is expected to be a major issue in the 2020 presidential election campaign.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from Washington, DC.

Yemen's Houthi forces kill Saudi soldiers in combat

Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have launched a major attack across the border with Saudi Arabia reportedly killing Saudi soldiers.

Saudi state media say Yemen’s Houthi rebels have killed at least nine Saudi soldiers in a renewed military offensive.

The attacks happened in the southern Saudi provinces of Aseer, Jazan, and Najran.

It is the worst spate of violence since a UN-brokered peace deal was signed in December.

Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta reports.

Hungary jails heads of company over disastrous toxic spill

The company’s directors were sentenced to two and a half years in prison for endangering the public by criminal negligence.

A Hungarian court has handed down jail sentences to the heads of a company responsible for one of the country’s worst environmental disasters.

Ten people were killed and rivers were destroyed when more than a million cubic metres of toxic sludge burst from a reservoir at a plant of MAL Hungarian Aluminium in 2010.

The company’s two directors were sentenced to two and a half years in prison for endangering the public by criminal negligence.

Al Jazeera’s Charlie Angela reports.

DR Congo Ebola: Over 66,000 vaccinated

World Health Organization says it has managed to control the disease in the concerned areas of DRC.

It has been six months since the start of the latest Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 460 people have been killed.

The WHO has said that it has controlled the outbreak, the country’s worst in history, and is working with neighbouring countries to keep the epidemic from crossing the border.

Al Jazeera’s Priyanka Gupta reports.

Baidu Expects Q4 Revenue Growth

Baidu Inc. (BIDU) Friday said it expects fourth-quarter net income of RMB 6.2 billion ($0.89 billion) to RMB 6.7 billion ($0.97 billion), which assumes that net income attributable to Baidu Core will grow between 83% to 90% year over year.

Baidu also expects adjusted profit of RMB 8.9 billion ($1.28 billion) to RMB 9.4 billion ($1.36 billion.)

For the fourth quarter, Baidu expects revenue to be in the range of RMB 28.3 billion ($4.06 billion) to RMB 28.9 billion ($4.15 billion), increasing 4% to 6% year over year, compared to its previous guidance in the range of RMB 27.1 billion to RMB 28.7 billion, or -1% to 6% increase year over year.

Baidu has revised the date to announce its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2019, due to the evolving situation brought upon by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China.

The reporting date for its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 has been revised to February 27, 2020.

India's farmers frustrated by insufficient government help

Farmers are demanding loan waivers and better prices for their produce.

India’s government has promised billions of dollars to help support farmers.

But on the streets of New Delhi and outside Parliament, many say the latest budget does not go far enough to address their concerns and doubted that the government’s promises would come to pass with elections expected in the coming months.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Jamjoom reports.

Afghans follow peace talks with Taliban closely

After 17 years of war, people wonder what is being debated or agreed upon on their behalf.

About 2,000 kilometres away from Qatar, which is hosting yet another round of peace talks between the US government and the Taliban, Afghans in Kabul are watching the negotiations closely.

Compelled to suffer for 17 years of war, they wonder what is being debated or agreed upon on their behalf.

Al Jazeera’s Charlotte Bellis reports from Kabul.