A Japanese company making ferocious-looking robot wolves is being swamped by orders after record numbers of fatal bear attacks on humans last year. “Monster Wolf” is an animatoronic scarecrow with flashing red eyes that howls and growls...
Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba posted an 18 percent drop in net profit during its most recent fiscal year on Wednesday, weighed by challenges in the domestic economy and an expensive push into artificial intelligence. The Hangzhou-based firm recorded...
US President Donald Trump said he would ask Xi Jinping to “open up” China to American firms as he headed to Beijing on Wednesday for a high-stakes summit that will also bring up the Iran war. In a sign of Trump’s focus on business, Nvidia chief...
India has boosted its import tariffs on gold and silver in an effort to shore up the sagging value of the rupee and bolster foreign currency reserves hit by war in the Middle East. Gold imports are financed through dollars, which means buyers have...
Turkey and Armenia will resume trade relations via a third country as part of rapprochement between the two nations, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. “Within the framework of our normalisation process with Armenia that has...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla boss Elon Musk travelled Tuesday with Donald Trump on Air Force One to Beijing for the US president’s much anticipated talks with China’s leader. The world’s two largest economies are racing to dominate the global...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was due Wednesday in Beijing with President Donald Trump despite being under sanctions from China, whose new approach to him has included changing how his name is written. As a US senator, Rubio fiercely championed...
A French woman repatriated from a cruise ship struck by hantavirus was Tuesday in intensive care on a ventilator battling a severe case of the rare disease, a doctor said. The woman, one of five French passengers flown back from the MV Hondius and...
EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday the bloc could expand a naval mission it has in the Red Sea to cover the Strait of Hormuz, once the Iran war ends. “Operation Aspides already makes a crucial contribution in protecting shipping in the...
Negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the United States on the future of the Danish autonomous territory are making progress but a deal has yet to be reached, Greenland’s prime minister said on Tuesday. The mineral-rich Arctic island is...
All 26 passengers who landed in the Netherlands on the first evacuation flight from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship have tested negative for the virus, Dutch authorities said Tuesday. The flight from Tenerife landed on Sunday night...
Russia on Tuesday tested a new long-range missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, months after the last treaty with the United States limiting their atomic arsenals lapsed. The ending of the New START agreement in February formally released...
A military sea drone found last week off the Greek Ionian island of Lefkada is Ukrainian and represented a threat to navigation, the Greek defence minister said Tuesday. While in Brussels, Nikos Dendias said he had briefed European counterparts on...
A Singapore-based company and another in India have been indicted on multiple criminal charges over a 2024 ship crash that destroyed a bridge in the US state of Maryland and left six people dead, officials said Tuesday. Synergy Marine, based in...
OpenAI founder Sam Altman was expected to take the stand Tuesday in the blockbuster civil trial in California triggered by a lawsuit from the world’s richest man Elon Musk against the AI behemoth. Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, alleges...
