Month: June 2021

ROME — Italy’s leader is pitching for tourists to start coming from the United States, Canada and Japan to give a vitally needed boost to Italian hotel and restaurant businesses. … Read More

WASHINGTON — Without speaking a word or scratching a pen across paper, President Joe Biden drove up the pressure on Big Tech companies already smarting under federal and congressional investigations, … Read More

Global stock markets and Wall Street futures have risen after the Federal Reserve chairman said U.S. inflation is likely to be temporary, helping to calm fears central banks might roll … Read More

‘For f***’s sake, you say Meryl and everyone falls on the floor’: Sharon Stone goes viral with swipe at Streep and insists she is ‘a better villain’ than the three-time … Read More

The £1.7bn rail station that will take you longer to get to than the journey itself! Work begins on HS2’s Old Oak Common ‘super hub’ in Acton that promises ‘London … Read More

Woman who starved, tortured and killed her maid, 24, in Singapore is sentenced to 30 years in prison in ‘horrific’ case of abuse Gaiyathiri Murugayan abused her maid Piang Ngiah … Read More

Netflix and Amazon must follow same rules as BBC: Culture Secretary says Ofcom will ‘level playing the field’ by forcing streaming giants to curb product placement, ban harmful content and … Read More

Biden is expected to address recent spikes in shootings, armed robberies and vicious assaults when he announces the details of the crime prevention strategy Wednesday afternoon during a speech at … Read More

MILAN — The COVID-19 pandemic hit Italy especially hard, killing more than 127,000 people and sending the European Union’s third-largest economy into a devastating tailspin. Yet out of that tragedy … Read More

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper will close no later than Saturday after police arrested five editors and executives and froze $2.3 million in assets linked to the paper By … Read More