NEW YORK: Apple Inc said on Thursday that it will delay until early next year changes to its privacy policy that could reduce ad sales by Facebook Inc and other companies targeting users on iPhones and iPads. The delay could benefit Facebook, which last week said the changes to the […]
Year: 2020
WASHINGTON: The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell below 1 million last week for the second time since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States, but that does not signal a strong recovery in the labour market. The drop in initial claims to a five-month […]
BERLIN: German police have found the bodies of five children in an apartment in the western town of Solingen, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported in its online edition today, citing the police. Bild reported that the children’s grandmother had called police to tell them her daughter, aged 27, had killed five […]
MANILA: A US marine convicted of killing a transgender woman will stay in detention in the Philippines while a court reviews its earlier ruling to free him halfway into his 10-year jail term, officials said today. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton has been in prison since the October 2014 killing […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump rounded on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi yesterday after she was caught on camera visiting a San Francisco hair salon in breach of coronavirus lockdown rules — and with her face mask removed. The Democrat, a bete noire for Trump and his supporters, regularly hounds the […]
MUMBAI: India reported another record daily jump of 83,883 coronavirus infections today, taking its tally to 3.85 million, just 100,000 behind Brazil, the world’s second most affected nation, health ministry data showed. Asia’s worst-hit country has been posting the world’s largest daily caseload every day for almost a month, although […]
PARIS: Tens of millions of pupils returned to school in France, Poland and Russia today, their rucksacks loaded with exercise books, geometry sets and, for many, face masks to protect them from a resurgent coronavirus pandemic. Hand cleansing stations, social distancing and staggered play time will become the new normal […]
File photo of a Maersk Line container ship. COPENHAGEN: Shipping group Maersk will cut job cuts as part of a major reorganisation, an internal email sent to Maersk employees shows. Maersk, which handles about one in five containers shipped worldwide, has been under pressure from investors to speed its […]
FRANKFURT: Getting a coronavirus vaccine from manufacturing sites to some parts of the world with rural populations and unreliable electricity supply will be an immense challenge, given the need to store some vials at temperatures as low as minus 80 degrees Celsius, Deutsche Post warned on Tuesday (Sep 1). The […]
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic showed a bit more passion than might have been expected in his first-round win over Damir Dzumhur yesterday but the world number one brushed aside any question that he was feeling the pressure as overwhelming US Open favourite. The Serbian lost his way a bit in […]