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Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year, the media company said on Tuesday. The ranks ...

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it would begin sailing outside the United States from the Caribbean and Greek Isles in July, restarting trips after a year-long hiatus ...

The US Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc’s Google a major victory on Monday, ruling that its use of Oracle Corp’s software code to build the Android operating system ...

The cryptocurrency market capitalisation hit an all-time peak of $2 trillion on Monday, according to data and market trackers CoinGecko and Blockfolio, as gains over the last several months attracted demand ...

Some 50 members of Congress on Monday urged US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to seek removal of 25 per cent tariffs on American Whiskey imposed by the European Union and Britain in ...

The British Travel Association has called Boris Johnson’s delay of any decision on allowing international travel “beyond disappointing.” The prime minister said he was “hopeful” that foreign travel could ...

South Korea’s LG Electronics will wind down its loss-making mobile division after failing to find a buyer, a move that is set to make it the first major smartphone ...

GameStop Corp shares fell 12 per cent on Monday after the video game retailer said it may sell up to $1 billion worth of stock as it takes advantage of a dizzying ...

Chinese tech giant Tencent’s Timi Studios, maker of popular video games Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile, generated revenue of $10 billion last year, two people with direct ...

Turkey’s inflation jumped to 16.19 per cent in March, the Turkish Statistical Institute announced on Monday, rising for a sixth straight month after the sharp decline of the lira. The ...

In August, the price of an ounce of gold broke through the key resistance level of $2,000. Now it’s fallen back to about $1,700 per ounce. Does this mean that gold ...

Part II: Natasa Pilides, minister for energy, commerce and industry, has kindly conceded to Dr. Charles Ellinas and Andrew Rosenbaum a major update on energy policy and legislation. The Minister ...

Tesla Inc on Friday posted record deliveries for the January to March quarter, beating Wall Street estimates, as solid demand for less expensive models offset the impact of a global ...

A hacker is offering information on more than 500 million Facebook Inc users – including phone numbers and other data – virtually for free. News of the latest leak here was first reported ...

Ed Sheeran earned more than £7 million in royalties from “The Shape of You.” Wouldn’t you like to get a piece of that? Dolly Parton is still collecting royalties from ...

Natasa Pilides, minister for energy, commerce and industry, has kindly conceded to Dr. Charles Ellinas and Andrew Rosenbaum a major update on energy policy and legislation. The Minister addresses nearly ...

Oil prices surged up 3 per cent on Thursday after news that OPEC+ reached a deal to gradually ease production cuts from May. Brent crude rose $1.94, or 3.1 per cent, to $64.68 a ...

A robot armed with virus-killing ultraviolet light is being tested on Swiss airplanes, yet another idea aiming to restore passenger confidence and spare the travel industry more pandemic pain. UVeya, ...

There have been global repercussions from the recent block of the Suez Canal for six days by a stranded container vessel. The Suez Canal Authority is claiming $1 billion in damages, ...

Google, BMW, Volvo and Samsung SDI are the first global companies to have signed up to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining, the WWF ...

The European Union wants to produce a fifth of the global output of cutting-edge semiconductors at the end of this decade and make its first quantum computer in five years, ...

The UK government has signed a long-term investment agreement with Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala to invest £1bn in UK life sciences businesses to boost post-pandemic recovery, fDi ...

Europe, under fire for fumbling its vaccine roll-out and fighting a fresh wave of infections, is scrambling to speed up the pace of injections and avoid being left further behind ...

The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has called for a ceasefire in the vaccines war between Brussels and the UK. In a speech in Zurich marking the ...