The catastrophic floods in western Germany in mid-July caused damage of potentially €30 billion. In the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, this amounts to more than 13 billion, according to the…
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has fired a manager after a female employee reported being assaulted by her boss and a customer via the company’s intranet. The woman published her…
The wildfires plaguing Greece have expanded, fanned by high winds on Friday. According to the Greek emergency services, 56 fires are raging across the country. The worst is north…
The Chinese Meituan, the most significant meal delivery company in the world, will be fined the equivalent of 1 billion dollars if it is up to the Chinese competition authority….
France will give people in risk groups a third vaccination against the coronavirus from September. In a video on his Instagram, President Emmanuel Macron says that a third shot is…
Nintendo recorded lower sales in the past quarter. However, the Japanese game company scored another big hit last year with the game Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which was seen as…
Employment in the US corporate sector grew significantly less than expected in July. New figures from payslip processor ADP indicate that many companies struggle to find employees as the economy…
The governor of the US state of New York is under enormous pressure to resign. The Democratic governors of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have also called on…
Twitter is partnering with two major international news agencies, Reuters and Associated Press, to tackle disinformation on the social media platform. The news agencies want to help Twitter provide…
China is once again battling a coronavirus outbreak. In the country where the virus was first diagnosed, the epidemic had already been virtually eradicated for a year, but the delta…