Tesla ordered to pay over $130 mln to Black former worker over racism
A federal jury has ordered Tesla Inc to pay more than $130 million in damages to a Black former worker, finding he was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, the ...
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Cryptocurrencies post inflows for 7 straight weeks, led by bitcoin
Cryptocurrency investment products and funds recorded inflows for a seventh straight week, as institutional investors warmed to more supportive statements from regulators, data from digital asset manager CoinShares showed on ...
UK finance minister: Fix public finances before cutting taxes
British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday that tax cuts could only come once public finances had been put on a sustainable footing.
Last month the government set out ...
Taiwan warns it needs to be on alert to ‘over the top’ China
Taiwan needs to be on alert for China‘s “over the top” military activities, the premier said on Tuesday, after a record 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defence ...
UK tells EU again it may take unilateral steps to protect Northern Ireland trade
Britain told the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, ...
‘No Time to Die’ opens with $121 million in international box office sales
The latest James Bond movie took a mighty $121 million at the international box office over its opening weekend, Universal Pictures said on Monday.
The British and Irish box office led ...
Pandora Papers: Rich and powerful deny wrongdoing after dump of purported secrets
The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures denying wrongdoing on Monday after the leak of what major ...
Facebook blames “faulty configuration change” for nearly six-hour outage (Update)
Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such ...
France, Spain urge pan-European response to energy price surge
France and Spain called on Monday for a coordinated European response to the surge in global energy prices to protect the poorest citizens and the competitiveness of companies, and to ...
‘Captain Kirk’ on board for Blue Origin rocket launch
William Shatner, the “Star Trek” actor who found fame by pretending a Hollywood soundstage was a spaceship exploring the galaxy, will be launched to the edge of space for real ...
Merck pill seen as ‘huge advance,’ raises hope of preventing Covid deaths
An experimental antiviral pill developed by Merck & Co could halve the chances of dying or being hospitalized for those most at risk of contracting severe COVID-19, according to data ...
Israel accuses Iran of Cyprus attack plot after suspect arrested
Israel accused Iran on Monday of orchestrating an attempted attack against Israelis in Cyprus after police on the Mediterranean island said an armed individual had been arrested. Iran swiftly denied ...
IMF, World Bank plagued by leadership upsets, scandals
Investigations into the roles of now-IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim in altering World Bank data to favour China are the latest in ...
J&J to seek U.S. FDA authorisation of booster shot this week
Johnson & Johnson is planning to ask U.S. federal regulators this week to authorise a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine, the New York Times reported https://www.nytimes....
Americans Julius and Patapoutian win 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine
American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch, the award-giving body said on Monday.
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Crisis – what crisis? British military deployed to solve fuel crisis
British military personnel in combat fatigues arrived on Monday at a BP storage depot after the government ordered the army to help deliver fuel to help compensate for an acute ...
Swedish ‘Mohammad’ cartoonist Lars Vilks killed in car crash
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern ...
Whistleblower says Facebook put profit before reining in hate speech
A Facebook Inc whistleblower on Sunday accused the social media giant of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation, and said her lawyers have filed at ...
Turkey to open 1,000 markets to counter high inflation, Erdogan says
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday Turkey had ordered agricultural cooperatives to open about 1,000 new markets across the country to provide “suitable” prices for consumer goods in the face of ...
OPEC meets on output increase as oil prices rally
OPEC and its allies meet on Monday to debate how much oil to release into the red hot market, where supply disruptions and recovering demand from the coronavirus pandemic have ...
US trade deal is not the ‘be all and end all’
A deal with the United States is not the “be all and end all” of trade agreements, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Sunday.
A trade deal with the ...
Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth
A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations on Sunday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, ...
Switzerland files criminal complaint over Greensill
Switzerland’s economic affairs secretariat (SECO) has filed a criminal complaint in relation to collapsed financier Greensill Capital for alleged violations of the law against unfair competition, it told Reuters ...
Austria adopts carbon pricing in tax overhaul
Austria will implement a carbon levy of 30 euros per tonne next year as part of an overhaul of the tax system that officials said on Sunday would reward behaviour that ...