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By Kanupriya Kapoor Very little of today’s world resembles Planet Earth from 500 years ago. In fact, only about 3 per cent of land surfaces might be ecologically intact — still home ...

Bitcoin’s volatility is its main attraction and not a bug, as that is what gives the cryptocurrency its exponential rises, ex-Goldman Sachs bitcoin enthusiast Raoul Pal said. “People have ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it had completed its inspection of a U.S. plant that makes Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and asked for ...

Facebook Inc’s Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app. The company ...

The European Union won’t take up an extra 300 million doses of AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines that it has secured as options under existing contracts, a senior ...

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday not to cross Russia’s “red lines”, saying Moscow would respond swiftly and harshly to any provocations and those responsible would regret ...

Newspapers across Europe celebrated the Super League’s impending collapse on their front pages on Wednesday and the role played by English fans in its downfall. The ‘big six’ English ...

Cambodian police defended on Wednesday making arrests and punishing people by beating them using rattan canes for breaching coronavirus restrictions during a two-week lockdown aimed at containing a spike in ...

The European Super League collapsed on Wednesday as eight of the 12 founding members from England, Italy and Spain abandoned the breakaway project under massive pressure from fans, politicians, football officials ...

Greece aims to reopen restaurants early next month, state minister George Gerapetritis said on Wednesday, as the country is desperate for more economic sectors to resume operations ahead of its ...

Two of Alexei Navalny’s closest allies were arrested on Wednesday, their lawyers said, at the start of a planned day of mass protests in support of the jailed Kremlin ...

Germany’s constitutional court paved the way on Wednesday for the country to sign off legislation ratifying the European Union’s Recovery Fund as it dismissed legal challenges against the ...

The European Union clinched a deal in the early hours of Wednesday on a climate change law that commits the bloc to more than halving its net greenhouse gas emissions ...

The European Super League’s coalition looked set to crumble further on Wednesday with Italian club Inter Milan expected to join the six English teams in withdrawing from the controversial ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that any move by U.S. President Joe Biden to recognise the 1915 mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide will ...

Crude futures settled lower on Tuesday, pulling back from one-month highs, on fears that India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, may impose restrictions as coronavirus infections and deaths surge ...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) announced on Tuesday a range of new computers, a paid podcasting service and devices for finding lost items, signaling the continued expansion of its once-simple product ...

By Jonathan Allen and Nathan Layne Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was convicted on Tuesday of all three charges of murder and manslaughter in the deadly arrest of George Floyd, ...

Chelsea were held to a 0-0 draw at home by Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League on Tuesday, a match overshadowed by reports that the Blues had ditched ...

Manchester City started the process of withdrawing from the breakaway European Super League on Tuesday less than 72 hours after agreeing to join, with the other five English teams also reported ...

By Valerie Volcovici and Kate Abnett United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres wants the United States to commit this week to at least halving its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — a ...

By Kate Holton and Elizabeth Piper Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain would cut carbon emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 in what he hailed as the world’s most ambitious ...

Europe’s drug regulator has found a possible link between Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clotting issues in adults who received doses in the United States, ...

The dollar sank to a fresh 6-1/2-week low against major peers on Tuesday as the euro led a rally on the back of a brightening outlook for the region’...