A Health agent of the City of Rio de Janeiro performs a COVID-19 rapid test on Aloizio dos Santos, 78, while another writes down the information of the person at Morro da Mangueira (favela) in Ri
General John “Jay” Raymond spoke at TechCrunch Sessions: Space earlier this week where he touched on a variety of subjects. The talk came on the eve of Space Force’s first birthday,
Mobile travel app Hopper has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers canceled their trips and airlines dropped their flights. But the complications around getting airline credits and refun
China needs to transform both its energy use and industrial processes to realize the daunting challenge of carbon neutrality by 2060, Chinese environmental officials and expertssaid on Friday.At the
A booth of Huawei during the 2020 IFA fair in Berlin, capital of Germany, September 3, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note:Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with an MSc degree in Contempor
Screenshot of the Politico article about herd immunity in the United States. Editor's note:Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter.
As an American citizen, I am very much used to the fact that Washington simply does not care about the average citizen. The health care system leaves tens of thousands
Screenshot of the Politico article about herd immunity in the United States. Editor's note:Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter.
02:47 Injections of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine have begun in the United States providing some light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel. But many challenges remain including convi
Europe has greenlit Google’s $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of
For the incoming Biden/Harris administration to make a real difference and have a positive impact on the lives of hundreds of millions of Africans still living in pover
People's lives in China's Wuhan City go back to normal. /CFPChina has been working steadily with the World Health Organization (WHO) to push forward the tracing effort
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday vowed to continue bond-buying until "substantial" economic progress is made in inflation and the labor market.In a statement at the conclusion of its two-day polic
Donald Trump earlier slammed William Barr for silence on a probe into Hunter Biden's allegedly corrupt business dealings, while censuring the press for ignoring the sca
01:10 The U.S. central bank iskeeping interest rates unchanged this Wednesday amid growing concern about the pace of a post-pandemic recovery.Interest rates have been pared back to bet
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, U.S., February 22, 2017. /Xinhua Editor's note:Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visi
For the incoming Biden/Harris administration to make a real difference and have a positive impact on the lives of hundreds of millions of Africans still living in pover