LONDON: For Roger Morton and his wife living in France - and many other UK expats across the European Union - Brexit is causing the closure of their British banking services. Morton, a 78-year-old retired photographer, laments a letter from Barclaycard, informing him that their credit account will ...
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Thursday (Oct 1) approved a US$2.2 trillion Democratic plan to provide more economic relief from the COVID-19 pandemic, as a bipartisan deal continued to elude House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House. Objections from top Republicans are likely ...
Google has postponed the Australian roll-out of News Showcase citing regulatory complications, just three months after announcing the product, as the U.S. internet giant grapples with one of the most audacious attempts to police its activities.
India's contracting economy rebooting from coronavirus blow
HONG KONG: Japanese stocks edged up Friday (Oct 2) as they reopened after being shut down all the previous day by a technical fault, though markets across Asia were mixed in holiday-thinned trade with investors keeping an eye on stimulus talks in Washington. After September's sell-off, Wall Street ......
Tens of thousands of emails sent on Thursday that asked recipients to volunteer for the Democratic Party ahead of the November U.S. election actually came from email scammers and carry malicious software, according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.
WASHINGTON: Flight attendant Kristine Lambiris kept working after her husband lost his job when the coronavirus shut businesses across the United States, but as of Thursday (Oct 1) evening she has now been furloughed herself. "We're both pretty scared," said Lambiris, a United Airlines employee ...
TOKYO: Japan's unemployment rate rose to 3 per cent in August, the highest figure since mid-2017, official data showed on Friday (Oct 2), illustrating the pandemic's effect on the country's tight labour market. The figure, up 0.1 percentage points from July, is the first time since May 2017 that...
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would start promoting content from public Facebook Groups in users' news feeds and in search engine results, defying calls by watchdog groups to limit algorithmic recommendations ahead of U.S. elections next month.
NEW YORK: U.S. prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges accusing four founders and executives of BitMEX, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, of evading rules designed to stop money laundering. The Department of Justice charged Arthur Hayes, Samuel Reed and ...
