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HCA Healthcare says data breach may affect 11 mn patients in 20 states

Medical giant HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals in the U.S. and Britain, says the personal data of about 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach.

Amazon pushes back against Europe's pioneering new digital rules

Amazon is disputing its status as a big online platform that needs to face stricter scrutiny under European Union digital rules taking effect next month, the first Silicon Valley tech giant

BoA to pay over $100 mn for doubling fees, opening accounts without consent

Bank of America must pay more than $100 mn to customers for double-dipping on some fees, withholding reward bonuses and opening accounts without customer consent

US probes complaints that Ford Escape doors open while SUVs being driven

US auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that the doors on some Ford Escapes can open while the SUVs are being driven

Ashes: England keep faith in Bairstow even after poor-shwing in three Tests

England moved early to show its faith in Jonny Bairstow on Tuesday by keeping the wicketkeeper for the fourth Ashes test next week at Old Trafford

EU faces cliffhanger vote on conserving nature, fighting climate change

Protesters and legislators converged on EU parliament on Tuesday as the bloc prepared a cliffhanger vote on protecting its threatened nature and shielding it from disruptive environmental change

China's auto sales rise 8.8% in first half of 2023, but growth is fading

China's auto sales rose 8.8 per cent over a year earlier in the first half of 2023 as electric vehicle purchases surged, but growth is fading as an economic rebound

China signs pact with Solomon Islands to enhance security cooperation

The agreement, details of which were not immediately released, was contained in a joint statement made public Tuesday following a meeting Monday

UK wage growth remains strong, highest since 2001 amid high inflation

The agency's director of economic statistics Darren Morgan said that due to high inflation "the real value of weekly earnings are still falling, although now at its slowest rate since the end of 2021

Jury to decide whether Trump will be charged over Georgia's 2020 election

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been investigating since shortly after Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early 2021

EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill that is fighting climate change

Inside the legislature in Strasbourg, France, parliamentarians were bracing ahead of Wednesday's vote for a brutal debate over whether to push the plan off the table

2030 development goals in trouble, 575 mn people will remain very poor: UN

Close to half the targets are moderately or severely off track, it said, and of those 30 per cent have either seen no movement at all or regressed including key targets on poverty, hunger and climate

Novak Djokovic wants Wimbledon to start matches earlier at Centre Court

Because the tournament site is right in a residential area, local rules prevent matches from continuing past 11 PM local time

New Zealand to continue with Gary Stead as the all-format coach till 2025

Gary Stead will continue as coach of New Zealand in all three formats for two more years after New Zealand Cricket ruled out any move to appoint different coaches in different formats

Growing widlfire in Washington prompts evacuations, threatens homes

The Grant County Sheriff's Office issued the evacuation notices for areas near the unincorporated community of Trinidad and the resort area of Crescent Bar

Nato summit boosted by deal to advance Sweden's bid to join alliance

The decision by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a significant move toward Sweden's membership and it will alleviate tension in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital

Tourists received no safety warnings before New Zealand volcano killed 22

Prosecutor Kristy McDonald said in opening the prosecution case that the eruption at the popular tourist destination was not predictable but was foreseeable

Trump lawyers to delay pretrial conference in classified documents case

The attorneys said in their filing that they can appear at the pretrial conference to go over the 1980 law on July 18, adding they had also checked with US attorneys on moving the date

Iran not currently developing nuclear weapons: US intelligence report

Assessment from Office of Director of National Intelligence released Monday says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an atomic bomb since 2020 but has stopped short of that so far

Turkey agrees to send Sweden's Nato accession protocol to Parl: Stoltenberg

Stoltenberg made the announcement after talks with Erdogan and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on the eve of a Nato summit in Lithuania