VCG Facebook unveiled an initiative Tuesday to take on "hateful memes" by using artificial intelligence (AI), backed by crowd sourcing, to identify maliciously motivated posts.The leading soci
Another 626 COVID-19 patients have died in Britain, bringing the total coronavirus-related death toll in the country to 31,241, Environment Secretary George Eustice sa
Tiger Woods in action during the third round of The Genesis Genesis Invitational golf tournament at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, U.S., February 15, 2020. /VCG The next golf m
The Treasury Building in Washington, U.S., August 8, 2011. /AP Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert. He has provided weekly Shanghai Index analysi
Singapore will start easing some curbs put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus over the next few weeks, authorities said on Saturday, as the city-state ta
U.S. oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron said Friday they were curtailing some production as they slash capital spending in response to an acute industry downturn in the wake of the coronavirus crisis
Electric racing cars at the Formula E race in Rome, Italy, April 14, 2019. /VCG Rome has signed an extended agreement to host a Formula Electric (Formula E) race until at least 2025, the all-e
A reflection of a street scene of Soweto, South Africa, April 23, 2020. /AP Editor's Note: Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communications consultant and international affairs columnist. The
People wait in a line to pick up food at a food bank distribution site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on April 24, 2020. (Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
The U.S. state of Georgia, which on Friday reopened some non-essential businesses, is among the boldest states in the country to do so, and a number of other states are expected to follow suit des
Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, kindergartner Eli Schweig, 6, helps his grandfather David unload outdoor products as they prepare their family owned retail store Sunnyland Outdoor Living
Undated file photo shows the Huizhou Dayawan Petrochemical Industrial Park in south China's Guangdong Province. Multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil broke ground on the chemical compl
Global COVID-19 death toll topped 170,000 on Monday evening, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. A total of
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday called for a "gradual" and "cautious" exit strategy from COVD-19 measures, saying "Despite everything, we are still at the very
As countries in Europe started to relax their confinement measures with caution, the chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that more than 100 countries have joined the efforts
New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a COVID-19 press briefing on Wednesday, 15 April 2020. New York City Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered residents of the state to wear facemasks w
In Turkey, with so few people on the streets due to the tight anti-coronavirus restrictions, the authorities and individuals are trying to make sure stray cats and dogs can live through the difficult