– Oil prices were stable on Wednesday, but were below the more than three-year highs reached the previous session as rising U.S. fuel inventories and production weighed on an otherwise bullish market. Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $73.89 per barrel at 0455 GMT, up 3 cents from their ...

Beijing claims America poses as ‘guardian of human rights’ after State Department criticises Chinese rights record China has accused the US of “serious infringement on citizens’ civil rights” and “systematic racial discrimination” in a report issued in riposte to criticism from Washington. Beijing claimed the Americans posed as “the guardian ...

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House on Monday to kick off a three-day state visit expected to be dominated by U.S.-European differences on the Iran nuclear deal and trade. It will be Trump’s first hosting of a state visit since he took power ...

Russian authorities are freezing up vast swathes of the country’s online world in what critics call a heavy-handed – and so far unsuccessful – attempt to block a popular messaging app, Telegram. The head of the communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of IP addresses unrelated to Telegram have been ...

WHATSAPP users should to be on the lookout for a terrifying new scam message doing the rounds on the hugely-popular chat app. Unlike previous hoax messages, this latest attempt uses an element of truth to convince you it’s the real deal. Here’s how to avoid falling for the Martinelli Video ...

Turkey will hold snap presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June, brought forward by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from November 2019. He has run Turkey since 2002 and will seek five more years with beefed up powers approved in a referendum last year. The idea of an early poll was ...

Much of the media coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) has been focusing, rightly so, on the fantastic new possibilities enabled by empowered, human-like computers. But beyond the headlines about smart mobile phones and driverless cars lies the impact that these emerging technologies will have on the economy and business. If ...

An era will end in Communist-run Cuba on Thursday when President Raul Castro retires, likely handing over the reins to his right hand man Miguel Diaz-Canel, born the year after brothers Fidel and Raul led their 1959 leftist revolution. However after nearly 60 years of Castro rule, the change is ...

A NASA satellite has embarked on a quest for planets where life might exist. Propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket supplied by private firm SpaceX, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) hurtled off of a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida and into its search for so-called “exoplanets”, or worlds capable ...

U.S. Secretary of State nominee and CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea over the Easter weekend and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to discuss a planned summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Pompeo’s trip made him the ...