Beijing reacted angrily yesterday after US President Donald Trump opened a new front in the Sino-American Cold War when he banned Chinese-owned social media giants TikTok and WeChat.
From Aristotle onwards, literary theorists have identified a number of basic plot devices central to any narrative without which it would fail to engage the reader.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spent the past month contacting the leaders of major corporations, lobbying them to withdraw advertising spending from "lawless" social media companies such as Facebook.
More than three million of India's healthcare professionals have begun a two-day strike over the lack of personal protective equipment amid the pressure of the world's fastest-growing coronavirus outbreak.
Former Spanish king Juan Carlos has been staying at Abu Dhabi's exclusive Emirates Palace Hotel since leaving Spain aboard a private jet on Monday under a cloud of financial scandal involving Saudi Arabia, newspaper ABC said yesterday.
A special flight carrying evacuees to India who had been stranded abroad because of the coronavirus skidded off a runway and split in two while landing yesterday in heavy rain in the southern state of Kerala, killing at least 17 passengers and injuring 123 more.
When Yusef Karam rushed back to the building that has been in his family for the past 70 years, he found destruction. His cousin had died when glass flew into his face, the tenants of the 20 flats where he lived were fleeing the ruins of their homes and the building that his father constructed...
