A top 'Ndrangheta clan member was arrested in Italy after police, helped by the anti-coronavirus lockdown, spotted the fugitive smoking inside a seemingly deserted safe house, authorities said Friday. Cesare Cordi, described by police as a "leading figure of the 'Nd … | Continue reading
Germany has confirmed more than 1,100 cases of the new coronavirus but — so far — just two deaths, far fewer than other European countries with a similar number of reported infections. Experts said Monday that rapid testing as the outbreak unfolded meant Germany has probably dia … | Continue reading
Experts have suggested that coronavirus death rates could decrease as more mild cases are confirmed. | Continue reading
He stole $10 million-worth of "currency stored value," like online gift cards, and resold them online in exchange for bitcoin, a court ruled. | Continue reading
France will start closing its oldest atomic power plant on Saturday after 43 years in operation, the first in a series of reactor shutdowns but hardly a signal the country will reduce its reliance on nuclear energy anytime soon. Unplugging the two reactors at Fessenheim, along t … | Continue reading
After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing. | Continue reading
Fentanyl in the form of a highly lethal, synthetic opioid that’s been making its way through the U.S. over the last decade. The largest source of this illicit drug is China. | Continue reading
Internal correspondence provided to Yahoo News demonstrates that national party officials had extensive oversight over the development of the technology. | Continue reading
The new memoir Uncanny Valley, by New Yorker contributing writer Anna Wiener, tells the story of what happened when Wiener left a job in publishing to spend five years working in Silicon Valley. Employed first at an analytics startup and then at the open-software company GitHub … | Continue reading
Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a frequent flier, traveling every few months to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy medication for rheumatoid arthritis — with tickets paid for by the state of Utah’s public insurer. Lovell is one of abou … | Continue reading
Trump's decision to support Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher appeared to be the last straw for Rear Adm. Collin Green. | Continue reading
The first patients arrived Monday at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China's sweeping efforts to fight a new virus that is causing global alarm. Huoshenshan Hospital and a second 1,500-bed facility due to open this week were built by construction crews who a … | Continue reading
Hong Kong announced it was closing all but two land crossings with the Chinese mainland on Monday to slow the spread of a deadly new coronavirus as medics staged strikes calling for the border to be completely sealed. The semi-autonomous financial centre has 15 confirmed cases o … | Continue reading
Rep. Adam Schiff, the lead House prosecutor, called on Chief Justice John Roberts to expedite rulings on any disputes between Congress and President Trump over witness testimony and documents, if the Senate votes to allow them. | Continue reading
The first cases of the deadly coronavirus have been confirmed in Europe, as UK public health officials have been working to track down about 2,000 people who are believed to have recently arrived from Wuhan.France’s health ministry confirmed two cases on Friday – the first in Bor … | Continue reading
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 was “the deadliest in history”, infecting around 500m worldwide and killing 20-to-50m. | Continue reading
Brasília (AFP) - Prosecutors in Brazil charged US journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday with cybercrimes after his investigative website published leaked messages that embarrassed top officials and threatened to undermine a massive corruption probe. Greenwald, co-founder of The … | Continue reading
Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday, backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration. The growth of internet giants such as Apple has pushed international tax rules to th … | Continue reading
A Border Patrol agent told PBS's "Frontline" that he had to separate a devastated two-year-old boy from his family and he refused to do it again. | Continue reading
A Border Patrol agent told PBS's "Frontline" that he had to separate a devastated two-year-old boy from his family and he refused to do it again. | Continue reading
In this waking nightmare, the Trump administration has filled the parks department with anti-public land sycophants * We’re expanding our public lands project this year. Read more here. * Help us raise $1.5m to support the Guardian’s journalism in 2020, including our coverage o … | Continue reading
See if your genetic data was used in the research. | Continue reading
The Saudi authorities detected a new destructive cyberattack suspected of coming from Iran on Dec. 29, the same day the U.S. military struck targets controlled by Iranian-backed proxies in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor the previous Friday. | Continue reading
From the Norwegian fjords to Russian cities, record warm temperatures with less snow and rain have left the far north of Europe still waiting for the Arctic winter. Sunndalsora, a small town in western Norway registered 19 degrees Celsius (66 degrees Fahrenheit) last Thursday, … | Continue reading
The killing of a top Iranian general has ratcheted up the anxiety of families of Americans held in Iran, one month after the release of a New Jersey student had given them hope. The Trump administration has made a priority of bringing home hostages held abroad, but the prospect … | Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence could become an indispensable tool in the war against breast cancer. | Continue reading
A former Google policy executive accused the company of choosing profits over human rights in a searing essay published Thursday. Ross LaJeunesse, a candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine and Google’s former head of international relations, blamed the leadership team that has replace … | Continue reading
When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers — later identified as wor … | Continue reading
Indian tech startups have never had it so good. Local tech startups in the nation raised $14.5 billion in 2019, beating their previous best of $10.6 billion last year, according to research firm Tracxn . Tech startups in India this year participated in 1,185 financing rounds -- … | Continue reading
The United Nations on Friday approved a Russian-led bid that aims to create a new convention on cybercrime, alarming rights groups and Western powers that fear a bid to restrict online freedom. The General Assembly approved the resolution sponsored by Russia and backed by China, … | Continue reading
One of China's biggest animal feed producers said it had used a radio transmitter to combat crooks using drones to drop pork products contaminated with African swine fever on its pig farms, as part of a racket to profit from the health scare. In July, China's agriculture … | Continue reading
The Pentagon is advising members of the military not to use consumer DNA kits, saying the information collected by private companies could pose a security risk, according to a memo co-signed by the Defense Department’s top intelligence official. | Continue reading
Even basic cognitive performance could drop by 25% with higher levels of carbon dioxide. A growing body of research shows how CO2 affects the brain. | Continue reading
Facial recognition systems can produce wildly inaccurate results, especially for non-whites, according to a US government study released Thursday that is likely to raise fresh doubts on deployment of the artificial intelligence technology. The study of dozens of facial recogniti … | Continue reading
In July, China's agriculture ministry said criminal gangs were faking outbreaks of swine fever on farms and forcing farmers to sell their healthy pigs at sharply lower prices. Answering questions from investors on an interactive platform run by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Da … | Continue reading
JOJUTLA, Mexico -- The recruits filed into a clearing, where a group of trainers with the stern bearing of drill sergeants stood in a tight row, hiding something."How many of you have killed someone before?" one of the instructors asked. A few hands shot up.The trainers … | Continue reading
More cities are criminally punishing homeless people for sleeping in public, a new report shows, amid an increase in Americans living on the streets. | Continue reading
Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Indian startup Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics network in the nation. Flipkart led the Series D financing round for the four-year-old Bangalore-based startup, Shadowfax co-found … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) -- The optics war between Amazon.com Inc. and its critics is intensifying on Cyber Monday with labor, environmental and digital privacy groups staging events around the globe to amplify their concerns about the world’s biggest online retailer.At a first-ever Amazon Sy … | Continue reading
China will require telecom operators to collect face scans when registering new phone users at offline outlets starting Sunday, according to the country's information technology authority, as Beijing continues to tighten cyberspace controls. In September, China's industr … | Continue reading
In a fierce battle for market share against world superpowers China and the United States, Israel's drone industry likes to say it has a secret weapon -- military experience. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are used daily by Israel's military in and around its borders, w … | Continue reading
Google on Monday fired four employees on the grounds they had violated data security policies, but the tech titan was accused of persecuting them for trying to unionize staff. Google, the money-making engine of parent company Alphabet, confirmed a copy of the note published by B … | Continue reading
The nine tracks on "Thanks for the Dance" blend coherently into his oeuvre with forward-looking contemplations, examining the past not with nostalgia but with an inner drive to explore his own psyche. In "Moving On" -- an elegy to his one-time love and muse M … | Continue reading
Donald Trump’s secretary of state has reportedly told three prominent Republicans that he is planning to resign from the White House to run for a Senate seat.Mike Pompeo had planned to stay at the State Department until early spring 2020 but he is now concerned that his connectio … | Continue reading
A new report in the Wall Street Journal highlights some major issues with Google's ubiquitous search engine, Google Search. | Continue reading
Kay Wilson packed up her life in a hurry and moved to Los Angeles... only to find that what she paid in Pennsylvania for a nice studio apartment would only get her a 2.9-square-meter box in California. Wilson arrived a month ago at UP(st)ART, a community for young people with art … | Continue reading
After an upsurge in racially motivated attacks around the world, other countries are beginning to regard the United States as an exporter of white supremacism, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Friday. | Continue reading
A trove of voicemails, emails and messages on social media provided to Yahoo News by the whistleblower’s legal team demonstrate the effects of efforts by Trump allies to vilify those testifying against the president in the impeachment inquiry. | Continue reading