Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is set to announce his resignation for health reasons, officials from his party say. He has suffered for many years from ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease, but his condition is thought to have worsened ...
Facebook became the latest social media platform to crack down on the fringe far-right conspiracy group known as QAnon on Wednesday afternoon. \\\\\\"We’ve removed over 790 groups, 100 Pages and 1,500 ads tied to QAnon from Facebook, b...
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An ex-engineer for Google's self-driving car unit has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for trade secret theft shortly before he joined Uber. US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said Anthony Levandowski had carried out the &...
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The multi-billion-dollar, decade-long effort to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth gets under way on Thursday. It starts with the US space agency's latest rover, called Perseverance, which is launching from Florida. When the robot l...
A sign informs customers at the Edison Hotel restaurant about wearing a protective face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, July 24, 2020, along Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Fla....
China has ordered the closure of the US consulate in the south-western city of Chengdu, in a tit-for-tat escalation between the two countries. China said the move was a "necessary response" to the US, which ordered China...
President Donald Trump has warned the US pandemic may "get worse before it gets better", as he revived his virus briefings with a more scripted tone. Mr Trump also asked all Americans to wear face coverings, saying "they'll ha...
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“Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” led the weekend box office for the first time in 23 years, Deadline reported. The sci-fi film, which is currently being shown at 483 cinemas, is expected to complete the three-day stretch between Frid...
California has reimposed restrictions on businesses and public spaces amid a spike of coronavirus infections in America's most populous state. Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered an immediate halt to all indoor activities at restau...
France has approved pay rises worth €8bn (£7.2bn; $9bn) for health workers, with the government hailing their role in fighting coronavirus. The deal was signed with trade unions on Monday after weeks of negotiations, and will see ...
ANew Yorkjudge has rejected the Trump family's attempt to stop the release of Mary Trump's book, \\\\\\"Too Much and Never Enough,\\\\\\" scheduled to come out Tuesday. The cover art for the book, \\\\\\"Too Much and Never Enough: H...
Tom Hanks, who recovered from Covid-19 earlier this year, has said he "has no respect" for people who decline to wear a mask in public during the pandemic. The actor and his wife Rita Wilson tested positive for coronavirus while fi...
A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom after a covert negotiation witnessed by BBC News. The Netwalker criminal gang attacked University of Californ...
The old-school cinema experience has made a comeback and the drive-in helped a low budget horror film become the number one movie in America....
Fortnite players stowed away their guns this week to kick back for a movie screening instead. Three of Christopher Nolan's biggest films - The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Prestige - were shown in the game's Party Royale mode. What ...
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