European countries have cracked down on the business practices of Big Tech in recent years, while the EU is moving forward with legislation to tighten regulation. The Italian competition authority said it fined Apple and Google 10 million euros eac...

"The variant discovered in southern African states has been identified in Israel," the ministry said, adding it was recorded "in a person who returned from Malawi". Two more cases were detected in "people returning from abroad", it said, adding tha...

They reject the label of a new "Latin American boom" like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Instead, they see their success as a welcome br...

All non-Singaporeans and people without permanent residency in the city-state who have recent travel history to the seven countries will be barred from entering or transiting through Singapore, the health ministry said. The new restrictions, which...

Here, in the country's northeast, a team of international researchers is preparing to drill two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the heart of the volcano, a Jules Verne-like project aimed at creating the world's first underground magma observatory. Laun...

Hours after the glitzy event in Los Angeles, the website for Rugamba's brand House of Tayo exploded as enquiries flooded in from around the globe for his high-end creations. "It changed the perspective," the 32-year-old told AFP, still stunned by t...

Here are short profiles of the top three challengers. Left Xiomara Castro was never meant to run for president, but she is the front runner to become her country's first female leader. As the wife of Manuel Zelaya, she was first lady in 2009 when h...

Many young people have given up hope of a better future and think only of migrating to the United States. Since the coup d'etat that deposed Manuel Zelaya in 2009, the country has been run by the right-wing National Party of outgoing President Juan...

Falling Covid-19 infections and rising vaccine coverage will allow the country to revive its battered tourism sector with the December 1 reopening, President Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman Karlo Nograles told reporters. Fully vaccinated tourists from ...

In recent weeks the continent has been in the throes of surging cases and violent riots, wrestling with booster programmes and dramatic lockdowns to stem the tide as its death toll surpassed 1.5 million and it once again became the global epicentre ...

Carlson's 29-yard dagger snapped the Raiders' three-game losing skid and handed the Cowboys their third loss in their last four games. Quarterback Derek Carr completed 24 of 39 passes for 373 yards and one touchdown as Las Vegas improved to 6-5 on ...

Over the past year, several of the country's biggest companies -- including Alibaba, Tencent and Meituan -- have been swept up in a regulatory crackdown that has clipped the wings of major internet firms wielding massive influence on consumers' dail...

On a dramatic day for Australian cricket, the Cummins appointment came hours after it was announced that former captain Paine will take a break from the sport, ruling him out of the home Ashes series against old rivals England. Cummins becomes the ...

International sympathy for Taiwan having a place on the world stage is growing, especially among western nations, as China's authoritarian leader Xi Jinping takes an increasingly bellicose approach towards the island. China claims self-ruled democr...

Carlson's 29-yard dagger snapped the Raiders' three-game losing skid and handed the Cowboys their third loss in their last four games. Quarterback Derek Carr completed 24 of 39 passes for 373 yards and one touchdown as Las Vegas improved to 6-5 on ...