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Macron names Elisabeth Borne as new French Prime Minister

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday named Elisabeth Borne as the new Prime Minister, making her only the second woman to hold the position in the country's histo

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Putin says Russia's military advance in Ukraine 'going to plan'

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Russia's military operation in Ukraine is "going according to plan", a Paris offic

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Chinese Mission to UN slams anti-China forces fabricating lies on Xinjiang

China expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to a virtual event organized by a handful of anti-China elements on the so-called "Uyghur Tribunal's Judgemen

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Space log: 'I'm amazed by the universe!' says Shenzhou-12 taikonaut

The most memorable moment for China's Shenzhou-12 astronauts, or taikonauts, is when they opened the hatch of the cabin and walked out of the China Space Station, crew

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Pressure on the unvaccinated increases as U.S. COVID-19 cases surge

02:37 The latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States has been called“a pandemic of theunvaccinated.”The vast majority of people in hospitals and dying of COVID-19 areu

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Climate change making forests more vulnerable to wildfires

03:15 With wildfires devastating vast swathes of the U.S. West, President Joe Biden ​is calling for 'urgent action' to respond to conditions and mitigate the continued threat.He met Fri

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7-Eleven to install 500 EV charging stations by the end of 2022

Convenience stores are ubiquitous – and they sell the vast majority of gas purchased by consumers in the United States. But as more Americans transition to electric vehicles, a major reason people vis

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Alibaba reports a net loss of $1.17b due to record antitrust fine

A pedestrian walks past the Alibaba headquarters building in Beijing, April 10, 2021. /CFP Alibaba Group reported a 7.66 billion yuan ($1.17 billion) operational loss in the fiscal quarter end

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The truth about SDK integrations and their impact on developers

The digital media industry often talks about how much influence, dominance and power entities like Google and Facebook have. Generally, the focus is on the vast troves of data and audience reach these

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China provides vaccines to over 100 countries, intl organizations

01:41 The World Health Organization granted emergency approval for China's Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19on Friday, which came as China providesvaccines to more than 100 countries and i

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India's daily COVID-19 cases spike to new global record

India's COVID-19 infections crossed the 18 million mark on Thursday (Apr 29) with almost 380,000 new cases, breaking another world record for new daily infections./Xinhua India's COVID-19 infe

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More than 2,750 cases of coronavirus variants reported in the U.S.

The United States has reported at least 2,753 cases ofthecoronavirus variants first detected in the UK, South Africa and Brazil as of Friday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre

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China continues to lead in global patent filings, says WIPO

China was the biggest source of applications for international patents in the world in 2020 for the second consecutive year, according to a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIP

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Huge iceberg breaks off near UK base in Antarctica

00:39 A huge iceberg, the size of Greater London or the Greek island of Lesbos, has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.The phenomenon is known as calving and comes almost a d

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Coinbase files to go public in a key listing for the cryptocurrency category

This morning Coinbase, an American cryptocurrency exchange, released an S-1 filing ahead of its direct listing. The company’s public debut has been hotly anticipated thanks to recent activity am

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Infra.Market becomes India’s newest unicorn with $100 million fundraise

The newest unicorn in India is a startup that is helping construction and real estate companies in the world’s second most populated nation procure materials and handle logistics for their proje

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GCHQ wants AI to help UK combat crime and disinformation attacks

GCHQ says AI can be used widely in the fight against disinformation - and will commit to using it ethically.