In China delivery robots replace delivery men
Along a quiet residential street on the outer edges of Beijing, a yellow and black cube about the size of a small washing machine trundles leisurely to its destination. This “little yellow horse” is...
Category: International
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Jamie Rubin are divorcing after 20 years of marriage
CNN host Christiane Amanpour and husband Jamie Rubin are divorcing after 20 years of marriage, according to a friend. The couple, who are both journalists, fell in love over ‘late night margaritas’ while working in war-torn...
Thailand cave rescue: Boys tell parents ‘don’t worry’ in letters
Thailand cave rescue: Boys tell parents ‘don’t worry’ in letters The Thai boys trapped in a cave have exchanged emotional letters with their parents, for the first time since their ordeal began two weeks...
Man pays parking ticket… 44 years late
A man named Dave has paid a parking ticket in Pennsylvania – 44 years after he got it. Police in Minersville, in Schuylkill County, received a handwritten note from Dave confessing that he had...
Trump triggers trade war with China
US President Donald Trump has ignited his trade war with China, slapping tariffs on tens of billions in Chinese imports and sparking immediate retaliation from Beijing. The moves on Friday brought the world’s two...
Greece, Macedonia sign historic name agreement
The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an accord on Sunday to rename the former Yugoslav republic the “Republic of North Macedonia.” The landmark accord follows decades of inconclusive talks which had soured...
A journalist reappears, and Russia cries foul
A journalist is alive, but the truth died a little in Kiev on Wednesday. To recap: Russia-watchers received a fresh shock on Tuesday night, when they saw reports that Russian journalist and Kremlin critic...
Dealing in death
States are finding new ways of killing enemies abroad, and of justifying their acts AS EUROPEANS know to their lamentable cost, assassinations can start wars, even world wars. A bullet fired by a Serbian...
Whistleblower: Cambridge Analytica used Israeli firm to hack Nigerian President
The whistleblower at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal told the British parliament Tuesday that an Israeli intelligence gathering firm was involved in a hacking scheme targeting the president of Nigeria. The company,...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg apologizes for ‘major breach of trust’
Breaking five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a “major breach of trust,” admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data in light of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm....
