by Nina Larson GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the COVID-19 pandemic started, the agency’s...
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES — Microsoft’s fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users, according to exchanges being...
by Daniel Lawler PARIS, FRANCE — The vast majority of health claims used to advertise baby formula worldwide are not supported by rigorous scientific evidence, a...
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — A fifth person has died in New Zealand in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, police said Thursday, amid fears the death toll...
Singaporean economist and academic, Mr Li Shengwu, has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2023. Mr Li, who is the son of Lee Hsien...
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the central Philippines early Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, with the local seismological agency warning of aftershocks and...
MISSOURI, UNITED STATES — Lamar Johnson, a man from Missouri who has been serving a life sentence for nearly three decades, was set free on 15...
On 14 February, during the delivery of the Singapore Budget 2023, Mr Lawrence Wong announced that the government will increase support for young couples by providing...
SINGAPORE — The Government of Singapore has accepted the Tripartite Cluster for Food Services (TCF)’s recommendations for the new Progressive Wage Model (PWM) for the food...
Yesterday (14 Feb), Leon Perera, Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC from Workers’ Party, questioned the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance whether there are...
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS — Key Dutch semiconductor tech supplier ASML said Wednesday it was probing the embezzlement of confidential information about protected technology by a former...
SINGAPORE — Red Dot United (RDU), a Singapore political party, has suggested that while there were some positive aspects to Budget 2023, there is still much...
NEW DELHI, INDIA — Indian tax department raids at BBC offices entered a second day Wednesday, journalists at the broadcaster told AFP, in an action rights...
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Twitter boss Elon Musk said Wednesday that a new CEO might be running the online platform by the end of 2023,...
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND — New Zealand’s capital Wellington was swayed by a strong earthquake Wednesday, with residents reporting feeling a sudden jolt and buildings quivering. The...