Apple iPhone 12 mini sales slow as smaller smartphones lose appeal
Apple Inc’s iPhone 12 mini U.S. sales were just 5 per cent of overall sales of its new phones during the first half of January, industry data provider Counterpoint said ...
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Serena continues Grand Slam record bid (order of play)
Serena Williams will hope to move a step closer to a record-equalling 24th major when she meets Serbia’s Nina Stojanovic, while Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open title defence faces ...
Britain tightens travel with hotel quarantine and prison threat
Britain said it would bring in tighter border controls next week against new variants of the coronavirus, requiring hotel quarantine for arrivals and threatening rule-breakers with up to 10 years in ...
WHO official dismisses Covid lab leak hypothesis
The head of the World Health Organization-led team in the central Chinese city of Wuhan probing the origins of COVID-19 said on Tuesday that cold chain transmission of the virus ...
What changes does Britain want to N. Ireland post-Brexit rules?
Britain is demanding the European Union agree to rework the post-Brexit trade rules governing trade with Northern Ireland, seeking more time, better solutions and, in some cases, a renegotiation of ...
Tsitsipas thrashes Simon, Barty doles out ‘double bagel’
Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas served up a tennis masterclass to veteran Frenchman Gilles Simon during a 6-1 6-2 6-1 thrashing to open his Australian Open campaign on Tuesday.
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TUI banking on vaccinated Brits for summer recovery
TUI Group, the world’s biggest holiday company, needs a summer recovery to relieve pressure on its strained finances and is banking on vaccinated Britons going abroad in the peak ...
Bitcoin, hitting mainstream, powers to new high over €38,000
Bitcoin extended gains on Tuesday to a record high as the afterglow of Tesla Inc’s $1.5 billion investment in the cryptocurrency had investors reckoning it would become a mainstream asset ...
Does the world need new vaccines?
It is not yet clear whether the world needs a new set of vaccines to fight different variants of the novel coronavirus but scientists are working on new ones so ...
Lewandowski steers Bayern into Club World Cup final
Champions League holders Bayern Munich reached the Club World Cup final where they will face Mexican side Tigres after two goals from Robert Lewandowski gave them a clinical 2-0 win ...
Australian Open day two highlights
Highlights of day two of the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park on Tuesday. Times local (GMT +11):
1835 SHERIF MAKES HISTORY FOR EGYPT
Qualifier Mayar Sherif became the first Egyptian ...
Two U.S. carrier groups conduct exercises in South China Sea
Two U.S. carrier groups conducted joint exercisies in the South China Sea on Tuesday, days after a U.S. warship sailed near Chinese-controlled islands in the disputed waters that ...
EU’s Vestager warns Apple to treat all apps equally amid privacy dispute
Europe’s antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, has warned Apple Inc to give equal treatment to all apps on its platform amid the iPhone maker’s privacy changes that have drawn ...
More legal perils facing Trump as January call may have violated three state criminal election laws
Georgia’s Secretary of State’s office opened a probe on Monday into former U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, a step ...
Buy A Tesla with bitcoin? Coming soon.
Tesla Inc expects to allow customers to pay for its electric vehicles with bitcoin soon, the automaker said on Monday, a move that could expand how the most popular cryptocurrency ...
Hackers try to contaminate Florida town’s water supply through computer breach
Hackers broke into the computer system of a facility that treats water for about 15,000 people near Tampa, Florida and sought to add a dangerous level of additive to the water ...
Facebook says it will take down false vaccine claims
Facebook Inc said on Monday it will expand a list of false health claims it bans from the platform to include debunked claims about vaccines in general, such as that ...
Factbox – What we know about the S. African variant
South Africa halted the planned rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University after data showed it gave minimal protection against mild infection from one variant of ...
Global health officials back Astra jab after S. Africa study (Update)
Health officials around the world gave their backing to the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19, after a study showing it had little effect against mild disease caused by the variant now ...
Hyundai, Kia say Apple car deal now off, see $8.5 bn wiped off market value
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said on Monday it is not now in talks with Apple Inc on autonomous electric cars, just a month after it confirmed early-stage talks ...
Greece, Israel sign agreement on tourism
Greece and Israel signed an accord on Monday to ease travel restrictions to Greece for Israelis with proof of COVID-19 vaccination, a move Athens hopes will support its bid to ...
S. Africa faces widespread scepticism over vaccine safety
As a nurse in a country battling deadly diseases, Rich Sicina sometimes vaccinates other South Africans, but he says there is no way he will take a COVID-19 shot – he ...
Musk’s Tesla electrifies bitcoin with $1.5 bn bet, car payments pledge
Elon Musk launched a pair of potential gamechanging shifts for bitcoin on Monday, promising Tesla Inc would take payment for its electric vehicles in the currency soon and revealing it ...
Southwest France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert
Southwestern France was hit by heavy flooding on Monday following days of torrential rain, and several other regions including eastern Paris were on flood alert ahead of a cold snap ...