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Facebook, Google, Twitter set to face grilling by UK lawmakers

Representatives from Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok will be questioned by members of a parliamentary committee scrutinizing the British government's draft online safety legislation

Nokia third quarter profit beats expectations despite chip shortage

Sales were up 2% at 5.4 billion euros

Govt appoints veteran banker K V Kamath as chairperson of NaBFID

The institution has been set up to support the development of long-term non-recourse infrastructure financing.

Iran's president says cyberattack meant to create 'disorder'

Tuesday's cyberattack came in the same month in the Persian calendar as the gasoline protests in 2019.

Microsoft says it warned Bill Gates about flirtatious emails in 2008

The company executives in 2008 warned Bill Gates to stop sending flirtatious emails to a female employee

Colin Powell, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims, dies

Powell was the first American official to publicly lay the blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network

Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build 'metaverse'

The company said in a blog post Sunday that those high-skilled workers will help build the metaverse, a futuristic notion for connecting online that uses augmented and virtual reality.

European Union says exports of Covid-19 vaccines now top 1 billion mark

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the vaccines have been sent to over 150 nations, making the 27-member bloc the largest exporter of the vaccines in the world.

Smartphone producer Foxconn announces electric car venture

Foxconn said its first electric bus, the Model T, will have a range of less than 400 kilometres on one charge.

China's economic growth weakens amid construction slowdown

Factory production, retail sales and investment in construction and other fixed assets all weakened.

IOC voices Olympic concern at FIFA's biennial World Cup plan

The IOC criticized FIFA's tactics in promoting the biennial World Cup project by noting a wider consultation across soccer has obviously not taken place

French outrage over US submarine deal will not sink a longstanding alliance

In France, President Joe Biden's Sept. 15, 2021 announcement of a new trilateral security partnership between the U.S., Australia and Great Britain was met with disbelief and outrage.

What happens to your life stories if you delete your Facebook account?

For many people, a decade or more of updates, comments, photos, messages, tags, pokes, groups and reactions reside inside that particular digital sphere.

Explosion in Shiite mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 7

The blast came a week after a bombing at a Shiite mosque in northern Afghanistan carried out by a local Islamic State affiliate that killed 46 people

White House plans to address economic risk of climate change

The actions being recommended by the Biden administration reflect a significant shift in the broader discussion about climate change

Ivermectin is a Nobel Prize-winning wonder drug but not for Covid-19

Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening parasitic infections.

European Union looks to strengthen ties with Arctic, protect environment

The Arctic is warming up to three times faster than the rest of the planet

British economy falters during summer as shortages build up

The British economy remains 0.8% below its pre-coronavirus pandemic level of Feb. 2020.

China exports up 28% in September; surplus with United States grows

China's global trade surplus rose to $68 billion in September from $52 billion in August

Australia plans lunar rover to help NASA find oxygen on moon

The rover would collect soil that contains oxides and NASA would use separate equipment to extract oxygen from that soil