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Australia on Thursday narrowed its definition of close contacts of coronavirus cases and relaxed requirements for COVID-19 tests, as daily cases topped 20,000 for the first time in the pandemic, in ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk has exercised all of his options expiring next year, signaling an end to his stock sales that triggered a fall in the ...

Apple (AAPL.O) said it had placed the southern Indian factory of iPhone assembler Foxconn (2317.TW) on probation after both companies found that some worker dormitories and dining rooms did ...

Manchester City will head into the new year with an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League after Phil Foden’s first-half goal earned them a 1-0 win ...

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty by a U.S. jury on Wednesday of helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. Maxwell was convicted on five ...

Chelsea suffered another stumble in their faltering title challenge on Wednesday when they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Brighton & Hove Albion after an injury-time equaliser ...

Top U.S. and Russian officials for Iran have met in Vienna, Russia’s envoy to the nuclear talks said on Wednesday, and delegates on both sides said Moscow and ...

Italian restaurant and club owners are seeking urgent government support due to increased cancellations prompted by a surge in coronavirus infections, they said in a statement on Wednesday. Business group ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has resolved a dispute with the PGA of America over the golf association’s decision earlier this year to pull a major professional tournament ...

Global COVID-19 infections hit a record high over the past seven-day period, Reuters data showed on Wednesday, as the Omicron variant raced out of control, keeping workers at home and ...

China will improve copyright protection live streaming, e-commerce and sports events by 2025, the country’s copyright regulator said on Wednesday. Copyright protection will be strengthened and improved in new industries ...

Bitcoin dropped 6.13 per cent to $47,606.92 on Tuesday, losing $3,111.19 from its previous close. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is down 31 per cent from the year’s high of $69,000 ...

Greece is introducing new restrictions on the hospitality sector from Thursday, bringing forward measures planned for early January as coronavirus infections surge. The decision came a day after authorities announced ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will sit out Saturday’s Premier League game at home to Manchester City after testing positive for COVID-19, the club said on Wednesday. Arsenal are fourth ...

The Turkish lira weakened for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, tumbling 5 per cent and eating further into the huge gains made the previous week, as worries persisted over soaring ...

A court on Wednesday ordered the closure of Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Centre, a day after its sister organisation and the country’s oldest human rights group was ordered ...

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience. The device, called Taste the TV (TTTV), ...

Australia will seek to make urgent changes to COVID-19 testing rules to ease pressure on test sites as infections surged and the country’s most populous state reported a near ...

Hundreds of Hong Kong national security police raided the office of online pro-democracy media outlet Stand News on Wednesday and arrested six people for suspected “seditious publications” offences, the latest ...

The Philippines has lifted a four-year-old ban on open-pit mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores, an official said on Tuesday, marking the second landmark policy move this year ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Crete, Greece, on Wednesday, the country’s Geodynamic Institute said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) ...

Paris Hilton commands as much as $1 million a night working as a celebrity DJ, entertaining partiers at clubs in China, Dubai and on the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza. This ...

In May, San Diego-based Emily was feeling flush from a year of double-digit gains earned from trading stocks. Equity options, which some fellow stay-at-home investors were dabbling in, would juice ...

Title-chasers Liverpool slipped to their second Premier League defeat of the season after substitute Ademola Lookman earned Leicester City a hard-fought 1-0 victory on Tuesday. Liverpool dominated the first half ...