The owner of Burger King said the operator of its 800 stores in Russia has "refused" to close the sites despite demands to suspend trading. Restaurant Brands said it had contacted local partner, Alexander Kolobov, to sh...
Not many people can say they have a doctorate in interplanetary navigation, but Tim Crain can. While working on his PhD in Austin, Texas, in the 1990s he hoped one day to work on missions to Mars and in 2000 he landed his dream j...
The social media platform TikTok is making a big push into shopping. The video sharing app is famous for its short lip sync videos, dance routines and humour. And its popularity has soared during the pandemic. T...
HyperTrack's app keeps a real-time eye on a firm's delivery drivers...
With December now upon us, bear a thought for just how busy Santa Claus will be on the night of Christmas Eve, and in the early hours of Christmas Day. Every year he faces a logistics puzzle - how to deliver all the presents to a...
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, communities are giving thanks by giving back. From Arizona to Massachusetts, things like donated turkeys are being handed out to fill Thanksgiving Day tables. In Mansfield, Massachusetts, on...
A man accused of ramming a car into Christmas parade-goers in Wisconsin on Sunday is to be charged with six deaths after another victim - a child - died. Darrell Brooks, 39, wept as he was arraigned in court with five counts of i...
IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers. These machines could revolutionise computing, harnessing the strange world of quantum physics to solve problems beyond reach ...
CDC recommends 4th booster shot for immunocompromised...
House committee investigating Jan. 6 riot moves to vote on Bannon...
British author Susanna Clarke has won the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction for her second novel Piranesi. The fantasy work is the long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed 2004 debut Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Piranesi...
America’s longest war comes to an end 20 years later...
School board meetings become hotbed for mask mandate debates...
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The Food and Drug Administration is planning to authorize a third shot for the immune-compromised on Thursday, two sources familiar with the plans confirmed to ABC News. If the FDA green-lights the additional shots -- first reporte...
Sylvester Stallone to join comic classic 'Suicide Squad'...
Simone Biles pulls out of Olympics gymnastics competition...
Olympic hopefuls denied chance to compete due to COVID-19 restrictions...
The US military left Bagram Airfield - its key base in Afghanistan - in the dead of night without notifying the Afghans, the base's new commander said. General Asadullah Kohistani told the BBC that the US left Bagram at 03:00 loc...
OneWeb, the London-headquartered tech company trying to develop a global internet service delivered from space, reaches a key milestone on Thursday. The firm is launching another 36 satellites, taking its in-orbit mega-constellat...