Steve Carson has been named the new director of BBC Scotland.
The Philippines reported Southeast Asia's biggest daily jump in new coronavirus cases for a second straight day on Friday. President Rodrigo Duterte extended restrictions in the capital Manila to quell the spread and promised normality would return in December, Reuters said. Duterte also said in a televised address the country would be given priority in...
Exxon lost $1.1 billion in the second quarter, its economic pain deepening as the pandemic kept households on lockdown, diminishing the need for oil around the world. The Irving, Texas-based … Click to Continue »
Google's homepage got a refresh in the name of Pacita Abad, an artist and activist from the Philippines who broke gender barriers.
The reopening of businesses and staging of events planned for August 1 in the UK have been postponed for at least two weeks in the wake of the R number rising.
Northern Ireland on Friday launched the United Kingdom's first Covid-19 tracker app. This is also the first one that can trace users in another country, the Republic of Ireland, who have been in contact with someone suffering from the disease. The developer NearForm hopes the app will become a blueprint eventually synching up all of...
The 19 euro-area countries experienced the biggest GDP drop on record during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The eurozone economy shrank 12.1 percent, while the EU economy as a whole contracted 11.9 percent. The second-quarter preliminary reading is the lowest since records by the region's statistics office Eurostat began in 1995. The 19-member bloc...
