The British government has been given the go ahead to keep concealing the names of companies which received in total more than £47bn in state-backed Covid loans, after a tribunal ruled in its favour. The tribunal case had been brought ...

Sales of electric vehicles have reached record levels in the UK, although supply chain disruption drove total sales of new cars to their lowest level in 30 years. Just more than 1.6m new cars were sold in the UK last ...

The business model of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta empire has been dealt a blow following a ruling that its legal justification for targeting users with personalised ads broke EU data laws. Campaigners said the move could force the Facebook and Instagram ...

SEOUL — A North Korean  (NK) drone entered the northern end of a no-fly zone surrounding South Korea’s presidential office in Seoul when it intruded into the South’s airspace last week, the South’s military said on Thursday. The drone was ...

BEIJING/HEBRON, Ky. — US President Joseph R. Biden raised concern about China’s handling of its COVID-19 outbreak hours after the World Health Organization (WHO) said China was under-reporting deaths from the disease. The United States is one of more than ...

LONDON/BRUSSELS — Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices. Hundreds of sites have seen ...

Hong Kong residents have swamped clinics to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of the expected reopening of the city’s border with mainland China, which some people fear will bring a surge of infections to the financial hub. City government centres providing shots produced by BioNTech have in recent days been mostly booked solid, some ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Emergency crews braced for the latest bout of high winds and torrential rains sweeping California on Wednesday, renewing the threat of power outages and deadly flooding that gripped parts of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento over New Year’s weekend. The “atmospheric river” – an airborne current ...

Amazon.com Inc’s layoffs will now stretch to more than 18,000 roles as part of a workforce reduction it previously disclosed, Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a public staff note on Wednesday. The layoff decisions, which Amazon will communicate starting Jan. 18, will largely impact the company’s e-commerce ...

SHANGHAI – China’s Luxshare Precision Industry Co. Ltd. said on Thursday its cooperation with current clients was normal, in response to a media report that iPhone maker Apple Inc. had asked suppliers to cut production. The electronics manufacturer said it wanted to clarify a recent report from a Taiwanese media outlet which said that Luxshare had suffered the biggest impact ...