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The pound hit its highest in over a month against the dollar on Thursday, extending gains driven by a fall in coronavirus cases in Britain and as a dovish US ...

Second-quarter sales of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine more than tripled to $894 million from the previous three months, but the drugmaker once again delayed its US application for approval. The vaccine ...

Russia said on Thursday that it wanted Britain and France to be included in wider nuclear arms control talks with the United States, while it said that Washington wanted China ...

Meteorologists were stunned this week when three successive thunderstorms swept across the icy Arctic from Siberia to north of Alaska, unleashing lightning bolts in an unusual phenomenon that scientists say ...

One person has died and 10 people were trapped in a forest fire which was burning for a second day in southern Turkey on Thursday, Agriculture Minister Bekir Pakdemirli said, as ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Thursday of flouting a Russian-backed ceasefire that both sides had accepted the previous day to halt deadly border clashes. Armenia’s defence ministry ...

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula late on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in the region, authorities said. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake, which ...

Australia’s biggest city Sydney posted a record one-day rise in local COVID-19 cases on Thursday and warned the outbreak would get worse, as authorities sought military help to enforce ...

Canada’s e-commerce giant Shopify announced record second-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as consumers continue to spend big online. The company’s revenue rose 57 per cent to $1.12 billion for the quarter ...

Male puberty is not the sole factor in ascertaining whether transgender athletes have an advantage over competitors, the International Olympic Committee’s medical chief said on Thursday. New Zealand’s ...

EU privacy watchdog EDPB on Wednesday gave the Irish data protection agency a month to issue a long-delayed decision on compliance by Facebook’s (FB.O) WhatsApp after its peers ...

Caeleb Dressel won the blue riband men’s 100m freestyle as the United States celebrated two gold medals in the Tokyo pool on Thursday while China’s women responded with ...

Armenia said that three of its soldiers had been killed in an exchange of gunfire with Azerbaijan and both sides later accepted a Russian ceasefire proposal to try to calm ...

French authorities on Wednesday recovered most of the roughly 2 million euros ($2.37 million) worth of jewellery stolen from a high-end Paris boutique by an armed robber who fled the scene on ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s assessment of Russia as only having nuclear weapons and oil was wide of the mark and betrayed a ...

Barclays (BARC.L) will pay out more than a billion dollars in dividends and buybacks to shareholders after beating first-half profit forecasts as bad loan fears receded and investment banking ...

German insurance industry association GDV estimates that there will be up to 5.5 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in claims from storms that brought catastrophic flooding to parts of the country this month. ...

Britain’s financial regulator demanded the appointment of more women and non-white minorities to the leadership of Britain’s largest firms on Wednesday, saying at least 40 per cent of board ...

Boeing Co (BA.N) on Wednesday posted its first quarterly profit in almost two years, as deliveries of its best-selling 737 MAX jets to airlines gained traction amid a sharp rebound ...

England will allow fully vaccinated visitors from the European Union and United States to arrive without needing to quarantine from next week, in a huge and long-awaited boost for airlines ...

The United States got back on track in their quest for a fourth consecutive men’s basketball gold medal on Wednesday with a 54 point blowout win against Iran buoyed by ...

By Emma Batha From surgical masks and gloves to disposable hospital gowns and aprons, the Covid-19 pandemic is creating a mountain of plastic medical waste that is polluting the land ...

Pfizer Inc on Wednesday raised its forecast for sales of the COVID-19 vaccine that it developed with Germany’s BioNTech by 28.8% to $33.5 billion, as countries scramble to secure supply of ...

Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) struck a $14.7 billion all-stock deal to buy cloud-based call center operator Five9 Inc (FIVN.O) in its largest-ever acquisition, as it looks to expand ...