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Germany's genocide deal stokes divisions in former colony Namibia

03:21 Two Namibian communities that suffered genocide at the hands of colonial-era Germany say they were excluded from a landmark $1 billion reparations deal with Berlin .Leaders of the

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Malaysian PM switches back to real name after court bungle

Malaysia's government has issued a directive ordering all civil servants to use the legal spelling of the prime minister's name, after a court earlier squashed a detent

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Police taze Black teen with hands up, knee another in the ribs

00:53 In videos widely shared online, police were seen violently arresting several Black teens in the U.S. city of Ocean City, Maryland, reportedly while enforcing a va

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Novavax: Large study finds COVID-19 shot about 90% effective

Vaccine maker Novavax said Monday its shot was highly effective against COVID-19 and also protected against variants in a large, late-stage study in the U.S. and Mexico

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How Nubank’s CX strategy made it one of the most loved digital banks

As we saw in parts 1 and 2 of this EC-1, by mid-2013, Nubank CEO David Velez had most of what he needed to get started. He’d brought on two co-founders, assembled ambitious engineering and operations

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How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire

For most startups, the hardest early challenge is identifying a market and a product to serve it. That wasn’t the case for Nubank CEO David Velez, who understood the massive potential for success if h

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EU lawmakers OK virus pass, boosting summer travel hopes

European Union lawmakers on Wednesday endorsed a new travel certificate that will allow people to move between European countries without having to quarantine or underg

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British innovation will be key to success of merger dubbed the 'Apple of quantum computing'

Sky's Ian King says the next chapter for Cambridge Quantum Computing with Honeywell could see an IPO in the offing.

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Websites begin to recover from major internet outage

Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computin

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A new climate calculator for livestock aims to help ranchers reduce emissions

When it comes to sustainable livestock production and agriculture, measurement is the first — and sometimes most elusive — step in the process of turning our food system from a carbon emit

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Angry mob attacks physician at COVID-19 facility in India

00:47 See the video clip of the widely-condemned assault that’s going viral in India.A physician was brutally attacked at a hospital in Assam on Tuesday by the relatives of a COVID-19 v

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How Expensify hacked its way to a robust, scalable tech stack

Take a close look at any ambitious startup and you’ll find pugnacity nestled in its core. Stubbornness and a bullheaded belief in the worth of what a company wants to bring to fruition is often

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China raises reserve requirement ratio for foreign currency deposits

China's central bank announced Monday that it will raise the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for foreign currency deposits by 2 percentage points from the current 5 per

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Nikki Haley called VP Kamala Harris 'unprofessional and unfit' for telling people to 'enjoy the long weekend'

Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley had a go at Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday over well wishes she sent out for the holiday weekend.Harris shared a twee

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The Tulsa Massacre is emblematic of America's reflex to forget

Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of Birmingha

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The Tulsa Massacre is emblematic of America's reflex to forget

Editor's note: Thomas O. Falk is a London-based political analyst and commentator. He holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of Birmingha

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Alibaba is making its cloud OS compatible with multiple chip architectures

Alibaba’s cloud computing unit is making its Apsara operating system compatible with processors based on Arm, x86, RISC-V, among other architectures, the company announced at a conference on Fri