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Facebook banning anti-vax adverts - but will leave posts discouraging jabs alone

Posts by users or pages that discourages vaccines, and are not deemed as paid adverts, will still be allowed on the platform.

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Beijing forum discusses protection of ethnic music

From sharing ethnic songs and dances on short-length video apps to building online databases, more methods are being used to preserve and revive traditional folk music. This was one of the topics addr

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Apple launches four new 5G-enabled iPhone 12 models, including first 'iPhone Mini'

A month after a September event in which it didn't even mention the iPhone, Apple has released four new models.

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Live from Apple’s virtual 2020 iPhone event

Apple’s big iPhone event is finally here – virtual, which is to be expected these days. This is already the second virtual event Apple has hosted this fall, following one in September at which

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CGTN Europe one year on: Our correspondents on a momentous 12 months

03:20 As CGTN Europe celebrated its first birthday, four of our correspondents got together to discuss their most memorable moments so far.From Brexit to the COVID-19 pandemic and Chin

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Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and indecent’ videos

Pakistan has banned popular short video app TikTok in the nation, citing circulation of videos that it deemed “immoral and indecent.”The move comes months after the South Asian country raised serious

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Greek, Turkish foreign ministers meet as tensions ease

The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey have met on the sidelines of a conference in Slovakia and agreed to set a date for the start of a new round of exploratory ta

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General Motors finally gets serious about in-car tech, taps the Unreal Engine for next-gen interface

The upcoming GMC Hummer EV will feature a new in-car user interface powered by the Unreal Engine. This powerful platform underpins the latest video games and is well-suited to provide vehicle occupant

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Greek, Turkish foreign ministers meet as tensions ease

The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey have met on the sidelines of a conference in Slovakia and agreed to set a date for the start of a new round of exploratory ta

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Ex-officer charged with murder of George Floyd, released on $1M bond

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the killing of George Floyd, was released on a million dollar bond Wednesday./AP Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police of

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Four nations confer on African Great Lakes security

Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi chaired a summit on the Great Lakes Region from Goma, the capital of North Kivu province. /AFP The presidents of four countries conf

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How large is the global video game industry?

02:27 From Fortnite to Call of Duty, video games have grown to become cultural juggernaut, making up the largest sector in the entertainment industry.Globally, there are around 2.5 bil

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U.S. judge suspends Trump ban on TikTok downloads

A U.S. judge in Washington has temporarily blocked a Trump administration order banning Apple and Google from offering the Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok for download that was set to ta

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Netflix finally comes to the Amazon Echo Show

Amazon announced the Echo Show line in 2017, and today, it’s finally gaining access to Netflix. The video service joins Hulu and Prime Video as the only officially supported video streaming apps

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Putin offers U.N. staff a dose of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine for free

VCG Image Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered United Nations staff a dose of the Russia-developed Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine for free.Putin made the offer in his pre-recorded video ad

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Xi Jinping says economic globalization an inevitable trend

01:30 The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that economic globalization is an objective reality and irreversible historical trend, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the UN General Debate o

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Deutsche Bank to close 20% of domestic branches in coronavirus shift

Deutsche Bank plans to shutter one in five branches in its home market in Germany as it seeks to save costs and capitalize on the changing habits of customers during the coronavirus pandemic, an e