Next year could be uncomfortable for the bosses of the world's biggest technology firms. Efforts are accelerating to curb the power of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google owner Alphabet. Authorities, particularly in the US and Eur...
Emma Gao says that "when people taste our wine they're happy". Ms Gao runs the Silver Heights winery and vineyards in China's Ningxia province, about 1,000 km (620 miles) west of Beijing. They sit in the foothi...
Senior members of the Trump administration will be among the first people to be vaccinated against coronavirus in the US, officials say. The officials said some White House staffers are expected to be given the Pfizer/BioNTech va...
Medical experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have recommended emergency approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The decision comes after a 23-member panel met to determine whether the drug's be...
CNBC's Meg Tirrell reports on just how a Covid vaccine works, as well as the companies in the running to develop one....
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On a busy Monday afternoon in late October, a line of people in reflective vests stood on Happiness Avenue, in downtown Beijing. Moving slowly and carefully along the pavement, some crouched, others tilted their heads tow...
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Typhoon Goni is barrelling across the Philippines, bringing with it "catastrophic" winds and rain. At least 10 people have died amid reports of storm surges, flash floods, power outages and blown-off roofs. Gon...
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Huawei has unveiled its Mate 40 smartphones claiming they feature a more "sophisticated" processor than Apple's forthcoming iPhones. The component was made using the same "five nanometre" process as ...
The race to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 has newly highlighted a longstanding dilemma for religious conservatives: much of the cutting-edge research relies on the use of material derived from human fetal tissue -- something th...
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John Travolta is honoring his wife Kelly Preston on what would have been her 58th birthday. On Tuesday the actor posted a photo of the two of them on their wedding day in 1991, side by side with a photo of his parents on their wedding day. ...
The Chinese fintech titan Ant Group—co-founded by Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma—is set to go public in what could be one of the largest listings ever. WSJ explains how Ant's backbone service, Alipay, has revolutionized payments and investin...
Donald Trump paid just $750 (£587) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, The New York Times says. The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records f...
The suspension of a US university professor has ignited a debate over the use of a seemingly innocuous Chinese word. Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California (USC) was telling students in a communications lecture last m...
Huawei has announced plans to pre-install its own Harmony operating system on its smartphones from next year. Huawei announced its plan at the start of a three-day developer conference near the city of Shenzhen. The original...
A rare Chinese wine ewer which was rediscovered in a lockdown garage clear-out could sell for 100,000. The centuries-old object, which resembles a teapot, is owned by a Derbyshire construction worker but may have belonged to an ...
Apple has begun letting its iPhones carry out contact-tracing without the need for users to download an official Covid-19 app. As an alternative, owners are being invited to opt in to a scheme called Exposure Notifications Express (ENE...