US President Donald Trump has said there is a “very substantial chance” a historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un next month may not happen. He said the North must meet conditions for the summit to go ahead though if it did not, it might happen “later”. He was speaking as he received South Korea’s […]

Over the past 24 hours, the valuation of the cryptocurrency market has dropped from $390 to $373 billion, by more than $17 billion. The bitcoin price dipped below $8,300 and the value of Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, dropped to $690. Main Factors Behind the Cryptocurrency Market Slump The recent correction of […]

Workers at the Japanese tech firm are free to choose whether or not they want a part of their salary to be paid in virtual currency A Japanese business will begin paying its workers partially in bitcoin, in a bid to gain a better understanding of how the digital currency works, Agence France-Presse reports. Tech firm GMO Internet […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a plan to fine ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) (0763.HK) and shake up its management as his administration considered rolling back more severe penalties that have crippled the Chinese telecommunications company. Trump’s proposal ran into immediate resistance in Congress, where Republicans and Democrats accused the president of bending […]

Emergency teams responding to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo began on May 21 inoculating those most at risk of contracting the virus: health workers and people who have come into contact with Ebola victims. It’s the first real-world test for an experimental vaccine, rVSV-ZEBOV. In field trials in Guinea and Sierra Leone in 2015, this vaccine […]

Mark Zuckerberg’s “accountability moment” has come and gone, and little has changed.  Facebook promises to be more responsible with its trove of information about you — we’ll see what that means. And its users have stayed with the service — how could they not, given its monopoly power? The stock market has blithely restored all the loss it imposed on Facebook when the Cambridge Analytica […]

LOS ANGELES: Former US President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, have struck a deal to produce films and series for Netflix, the streaming service said on Monday, giving the former first couple a powerful and unprecedented platform to shape their post-White House legacy. Under the name Higher Ground Productions, the Obamas have the […]

Cruise fans are buzzing about Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship, the 4,004-passenger Norwegian Bliss, and for good reason. Scheduled to be christened later this month in Seattle, the Miami-based cruise operator’s largest vessel ever ranks among the most activity-packed ships at sea, with a wide array of eateries, bars, nightspots and deck-top amusements. USA TODAY Cruise […]

So this then is the US “Plan B” for Iran – to step up the sanctions pressure in order to force the Tehran government into a new diplomatic deal. It would need to accept broader constraints, not just on its nuclear activities, but also on its missile programme and wider behaviour in the region. But […]

Say what you will about pageants—that they’re frivolous, or antifeminist, or that in the early, pre-EPA years, the aerosol hairspray necessary to get through a single show probably wore a tiara-shaped hole in the ozone layer. But once you’ve run out of of complaints (we’ll wait), consider this: In most spheres of culture, we’ve long retired […]