T he dire state of London’s broadband network has been laid bare in a new report which found the capital ranks a paltry 76th in global download speeds.
London average download speeds currently stand at 79 megabytes per second, according to the Speedtes…
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L ondon Fashion Week starts on February 17 with its usual ranks of well-heeled A-list celebrities seeking the best seats on runway front rows alongside magazine editors, influencers and retail buyers.…
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An absolute staple of the Gen Z app line-up, TikTok managed to make a fair few enemies not long after amassing popularity outside mainland China.
The US government first opened a national security investigation into the Beijing-based social media behem…
2023-02-17
Experts say the episodes exposed Norad's limitations when it comes to detecting small, slow-moving airborne objects,
The RCMP said the search for debris from an object shot down over Lake Huron has been suspended, but search efforts continue in Y…
2023-02-17
Liz Truss’s political interventions “should be like sex in a long and happy relationship, infrequent but anticipated with glee”, the former Conservative party chairman has said.
Sir Jake Berry, formerly a key defender of Truss’s failed radical plans, s…
2023-02-17
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Compass Point upgrades Coinbase to buy from neutral Compass said the "long-term opportunities outweigh near-term risks." "Although ADVs (average daily volume) remain subdued vs.R…
2023-02-17
W hile social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are stagnating, TikTok is growing fast. With such growth comes plenty of attention, and TikTok is now facing scrutiny in several areas, from the algorithmic distribution of harmful content to how it h…
2023-02-17
In the blink of an eye, the global economy's most pressing problems have surprisingly gone away.
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In October, as the S&P 500 was plumbing bear-market lows, rapid-fire Fed rate hikes and a soaring dollar stoked fears the sickly global economy…
2023-02-17
The practice of parents exploiting their children through videos found on YouTube or TikTok is finally seeing some real scrutiny in the US.
The Washington state legislature held its first hearing this week for House Bill 1627, which aims to ensure that…
2023-02-17
The Fluxys gas terminal at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. The price of European natural gas has fallen below €50 per megawatt hour for the first time in almost 18 months.…
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Fiji’s opposition leader and its long-serving former prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has been suspended from parliament for three years for sedition and insulting the president.
The suspension came days after he launched an extraordinary verbal atta…
2023-02-17
Mogomotsi Magome, The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Russia, China and South Africa are set to begin naval drills off South Africa's Indian Ocean coast Friday in a demonstration of the three countries’ close ties amid Russia’s invasion of U…
2023-02-17
Karl Ritter, The Associated Press
MUNICH (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to give the opening address Friday at a major annual conference on international security policy, where Russia's invasion of Ukraine was expecte…
2023-02-17
An Illinois hobby group is wondering if one of the unidentified flying objects shot out of the sky by a jet fighter’s sidewinder missile might have been their humble radio-equipped balloon.…
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China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Jus…
2023-02-17
China is shipping in large numbers of donkey skins from Africa in order to tap into a mysterious ingredient with rumored miraculous health benefits.
Ejiao, also known as donkey-hide gelatin, is made from collagen proteins in the skin of donkeys and is …
2023-02-17
BEIJING, CHINA — China’s financial sector was jolted Friday by reports that Bao Fan, the billionaire chairman of investment bank China Renaissance, had gone missing.
No official statements were immediately made by authorities to explain his whereabouts…
2023-02-17
The balloon episode and the ensuing UFO drama have captured America’s attention perhaps because it’s such a caricature of the new Cold War we’re barreling toward.
The image of a fighter jet shooting down a giant balloon over the East Coast, the first k…
2023-02-17
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a helium-fueled nightmare here to steal all our national security secrets!
Yes, the Chinese balloon scandal has eaten up a lot of bandwidth over the last few weeks.…
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The Chinese government has declared a “decisive victory” in the battle against Covid-19, claiming it had created “a miracle in the history of human civilisation” in successfully steering China through the global pandemic.…
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China Money Network's DealShot provides detailed information on venture capital and private equity deals in China on a daily basis. Here you can find out where Chinese investors have been investing their money each workday.
DealShot: 11 Deals Wor…