Diamond Offshore Drilling filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas on Sunday, after the company recently skipped making an interest payment and said it had retained restructuring advisers.The Hous
Iraq's Minister of Electricity Luay al-Khatteeb speaks at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, December 11, 2018. /Reuters The United States has renewed a waiver for Iraq to continue importing
06:43 Editor's note: The Trump administration's widely acknowledged irresponsible reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns on a global level. For the first time since the
A man walks past a mural featuring oil pumps and wells in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, January 3, 2020. /AP The price of Venezuelan oil has fallen to below 10 U.S. dollars a barrel – its lowest
The growing use of export restrictions by governments can be "dangerously counterproductive" as the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic, the IMF and the WTO warned Friday.The two institution
Most commodity prices are expected to drop in 2020 amid the global economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank said on Thursday.Graphic by CGTN's Gao Hongme
The day of Jan. 23 was Matteo Giovannini's last normal working day at his office here. It was the same day that the central Chinese city of Wuhan was sealed off in response to the outbreak of a
00:59 Wildfires have ravaged Poland's largest nature reserve, the Biebrza National Park, as the country deals with its worst drought in years.The blaze first struck on Sunday, spreadin
Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites to help support news publishers, bloggers, and musicians. But
Since first uploading a YouTube teaser video of its tech five years ago, Magic Leap’s presence in the augmented reality industry has been controversial.Some have lauded the team’s ambition
Wall Street tumbled for a second straight day on Tuesday as a collapse in U.S. oil prices and glum forecasts by companies worsened fears of a deep economic downturn. All 11 SP 500 sector indexes fell
Bahar Cetinkaya, working for the Kadikoy Municipality, one of Istanbul's crowded districts on the Asian side, takes care of the stray cats, on 18 April 2020. (Xinhua)"We are now working with all our s
01:42 Integrated treatment using traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM, and Western therapies together has been proven effective in dealing with COVID-19.Xu Ming went to hospital two mo
German robotics maker KUKA announced on Wednesday that car manufacturer BMW has ordered 5,000 robots for its production lines and factories. The industrial robots would be used primarily in car bo
Australia has started a trial of its first "virtual hospital" for COVID-19 patients in the State of New South Wales (NSW), a local television network reported on Wednesday. Armidale hospital in NSW
Two Brazilian governors tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday, one in the tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the Amazon rain-forest state of Pará.In a video posted on Twi
Amid a cash crunch threatening to put the U.S. Postal Service out of business, the Trump administration is being accused of blocking bipartisan efforts to provide money