German car giant’s US unit briefly posted statement on website saying it would change its name to ‘Voltswagen’. | Continue reading
Report concludes there was ‘failure’ on the part of France over the genocide that saw about 800,000 people slaughtered. | Continue reading
Ever Given container ship lodged in the Suez Canal is halting about $9.6bn worth of daily marine traffic, data shows. | Continue reading
Employees of all nationalities and across all sectors will now be entitled to a minimum monthly wage of $275. | Continue reading
The leader of the Afghan Dreamers robotics team and her mentor describe the challenge of building low-cost ventilators. | Continue reading
Signal appears to be the latest messaging app to cease working in a country that tightly controls the flow of info. | Continue reading
Here’s a look at photographs taken last March just about the time the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. | Continue reading
People 18 years and older and with a permit, would be able to grow, carry or consume cannabis and its derivatives. | Continue reading
American Airlines flight with 95 passengers and 6 crew lands safely; 737 MAX planes have faced scrutiny for years. | Continue reading
The move affecting 250,000 doses reflects frustration within the bloc over the shortfall of promised vaccine deliveries. | Continue reading
Forging branded gold bars has become increasingly sophisticated, so thousands may go undetected each year. | Continue reading
And lied about it. | Continue reading
The pandemic presents us with a great opportunity to do away with the destructive mass tourism industry. | Continue reading
Deep-space ventures by the UAE, US and China will arrive at Earth’s planetary neighbour this month. | Continue reading
Wind power hub will store enough green energy to cover electricity needs of three million European households. | Continue reading
A US Congressional subcommittee found dangerous levels of neurologically damaging heavy metals in some baby food brands. | Continue reading
Nails on roads, steel barricades and hundreds of riot police trigger comparison with heavily-militarised border fences. | Continue reading
Members of the Ahmed gang are being protected by their brother, General Aziz Ahmed, head of the Bangladesh army. | Continue reading
In a rare pandemic success, the UK, which has a high death rate, is winning praise for its vaccination programme. | Continue reading
Renewables are getting a boost from a range of sources including policymakers, financing markets and fossil fuel firms. | Continue reading
Legislation also allows demolition of other countries’ structures built on Chinese-claimed reefs. | Continue reading
Proposed law will force Google, Facebook to pay local media for their news content or face millions of dollars in fines. | Continue reading
Fire breaks out at Serum Institute of India, local media say, adding that production of COVID vaccine was not affected. | Continue reading
At least 21 current and ex-members of the army and law enforcement identified as being at or near the Capitol riot. | Continue reading
Several online platforms have cut off Parler following storming of US Capitol, accusing it of allowing violent content. | Continue reading
PM Netanyahu orders advancement of plans to build 800 homes for Jewish settlers in last days of Trump’s presidency. | Continue reading
Trump is accused of ‘incitement of insurrection’ after giving a speech before his supporters stormed the Capitol. | Continue reading
Julian Assange faces up to 175 years in US jail over espionage and hacking charges, as activists ‘expect the worst’. | Continue reading
Cuba is devaluing its peso for the first time since the 1959 revolution with profound consequences for its people. | Continue reading
Senate debates bill that could make Argentina the largest country in Latin America to legalise abortion. | Continue reading
How many false apologies have echoed through victims’ homes this year, statements that accuse rather than appease? | Continue reading
We ask whether the surveillance industry is out of control and discuss climate change with activist Nnimmo Bassey. | Continue reading
Scandinavian countries may top every ranking on human development, but they are a disaster for the environment. | Continue reading
Tech corporations are expanding the scope of surveillance across the correctional pipeline, but who pays the price? | Continue reading
China becomes only the third country to have retrieved samples from the Moon following the US and then-Soviet Union. | Continue reading
Plastic production surged in the last 50 years, and we could be ingesting equivalent of a credit card of plastic a week. | Continue reading
The first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine were being shipped from a factory in Michigan on Sunday. | Continue reading
Pharmaceutical giant says combinations of different vaccines may provide wider protection and better accessibility. | Continue reading
Federal investigators are probing the finances and foreign business dealings of Joe Biden’s son. | Continue reading
Increasingly in recent years, internet laws have been used to target journalists and rights activists who voice dissent. | Continue reading
A global effort helped bring the ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ to a new home with 600 other pachyderms. | Continue reading
Government move to reform agricultural marketing has sparked protests, with critics calling the move ‘pro-corporate’. | Continue reading
Administering pure oxygen in a pressurised chamber could reverse ageing and illnesses, research finds. | Continue reading
Red Cross says the world has been hit by more than 100 environmental disasters since the WHO declared the pandemic. | Continue reading
An investigation by online magazine Motherboard found the US military is getting data from several firms. | Continue reading
Deutsche Bank suggests taxing remote workers to help rebuild from COVID and create a more inclusive economy. | Continue reading
More than 30 explosions failed to close ‘Europe’s most bombed hotel’, but could COVID-19 usher in its demise? | Continue reading
New order brings online news portals and content providers such as Netflix under the ambit of the government. | Continue reading