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Burkina Faso votes amid ongoing extremist violence, threats

Voters went to the polls Sunday in Burkina Faso for presidential and legislative elections that have been marred by ongoing extremist violence in this landlocked West A

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Meet the nurse first in the world to get new COVID 'antibody cocktail'

Karen Simeson speaks to Sky News after receiving the treatment in Wakefield and says she wants "normality back desperately".

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Tech in the Biden era

President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in an administration that doted on the tech industry, but that long honeymoon, punctuated by four years of Trump, looks to be over.Tech is on notic

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Musician Feng Shuo: a humble one-man band

A lone musician is blazing his own trail in Chinese cyberspace, attracting millions of fans to his original music.Before entering the Shanghai studio of musician Feng Shuo, exciting music can be heard

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Huge India oil well fire put off after 5 months

A massive oil well fire that has raged for more than five months in northeast India has finally been extinguished, officials said Sunday. /AFP A massive oil well fire that has raged for more t

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Italy adds two regions to "red zones" as daily COVID-19 count surges

A medical worker is seen at a COVID-19 unit in Sant'Orsola-Malpighi hospital in Bologna, Italy, on Nov. 12, 2020. (Photo by Gianni Schicchi/Xinhua) Italy has added two more regions to its coro

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Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on 'extraordinary failure to understand how elections function'

The city of Detroit has rejected claims of cheating brought by Trump supporters, stating in a court filing that the allegations made by a handful of election observers

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Amazon faces lawsuit alleging failure to provide PPE to workers during pandemic

Christian Smalls, a former Amazon warehouse employee, filed a lawsuit against the company today alleging Amazon failed to provide personal protective equipment to Black and Latinx workers during the

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Mirantis brings extensions to its Lens Kubernetes IDE, launches a new Kubernetes distro

Earlier this year, Mirantis, the company that now owns Docker’s enterprise business, acquired Lens, a desktop application that provides developers with something akin to an IDE for managing thei

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World's biggest fish market in Tokyo hit hard by COVID-19

Tuna auction in Toyosu market in Tokyo. /CGTN It's been two years since Tokyo's historic Tsukiji fish market closed its doors and made a costly $5 billion move to the city's outskirts. Now cal

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U.S. hospitals again under pressure with COVID-19 on the rise

01:58 After several weeks of rapidly rising coronavirus cases, hospitals around the United States are once again overwhelmed, forcing local authorities to take new measures to cope wit

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ACFTU art group to stage performances honoring workers

The Art Ensemble of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions will put on three performances in Beijing's Poly Theater from Nov 27 to 29, sending a message of respect for the role models who made g

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The married couple behind the successful Pfizer COVID vaccine

Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci founded the pharmaceutical company BioNTech which has developed the 90% effective coronavirus vaccine.

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The market's best of all possible worlds

Editor's note: Willem H. Buiter is a visiting professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. Anne Sibert is professor of economics at Birkbeck, University of London. The art

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COVID-19: China's Tianjin enters 'wartime' mode after new local case

North China's Tianjin Municipality has entered "wartime" mode after a new local COVID-19 infection was reported, local authorities announced Sunday.The latest development comes after a worker at a

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Judges want more evidence from Trump campaign as election cases get tossed

Since Election Day, the Trump campaign has brought a series of lawsuits around the country in an effort to find a path to reelection, but four judges in different state

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Fortnite is actually a SaaS company

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.What a week from us here in the United States, where