Online Collaboration Tool Slack Suffers Global Outage

Online Collaboration Tool Slack Suffers Global Outage

Online communication and collaboration service Slack reported a global outage Monday, as millions returned to work after the Christmas and...

Scotland to Impose Full Lockdown as COVID-19 Cases Surge

Scotland to Impose Full Lockdown as COVID-19 Cases Surge

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Monday the country will impose a total lockdown for the rest of January as...

Italian-US Automaker Fiat Chrysler to Merge with France’s PSA Peugeot

Italian-US Automaker Fiat Chrysler to Merge with France’s PSA Peugeot

In separate meetings Monday, shareholders of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Groupe PSA voted Monday to merge the U.S.-Italian and...

How Putin is Preparing for 2021 Challenges 

How Putin is Preparing for 2021 Challenges 

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The December collapse was jolting in its...

Google Employees Form Workers’ Union in United States

Google Employees Form Workers’ Union in United States

More than 200 Google employees in the United States have formed a workers’ union, the elected leaders of the union...

British Health Secretary Doesn’t Rule Out New Restrictions as Coronavirus Continues to Spread

British Health Secretary Doesn’t Rule Out New Restrictions as Coronavirus Continues to Spread

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Monday the government is not ruling out new restrictions as the coronavirus continues to...

Hope Fades in Norway Landslide That Left 7 Dead; 3 Missing

Hope Fades in Norway Landslide That Left 7 Dead; 3 Missing

Norwegian officials insisted Monday that there was “still hope” in finding survivors in air pockets five days after a landslide...

British Judge Rejects US Extradition Request for WikiLeaks Founder

British Judge Rejects US Extradition Request for WikiLeaks Founder

A British judge rejected the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face charges, including espionage. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser said Monday at London’s...

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: Liverpool Salute Marsden After Singer Dies Aged 78

‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: Liverpool Salute Marsden After Singer Dies Aged 78

Gerry Marsden, frontman of 1960s group Gerry and the Pacemakers, has died aged 78, the singer’s friend Pete Price announced...

7th Body Recovered from Norway Mudslide; 3 Still Missing

7th Body Recovered from Norway Mudslide; 3 Still Missing

Rescue workers have uncovered a seventh body from a landslide that buried homes in a village near Norway’s capital, police...

Spanish-flagged Boat Rescues 265 Migrants in Mediterranean

Spanish-flagged Boat Rescues 265 Migrants in Mediterranean

A Spanish-flagged humanitarian ship on Sunday was seeking a port of safety for 265 migrants its crew rescued from the...

Britons Flying Home to Spain Caught in Post-brexit Red Tape

Britons Flying Home to Spain Caught in Post-brexit Red Tape

Blame COVID-19 travel restrictions or Brexit but whatever the cause, some British citizens trying to return to their homes in...

Johnson: Scotland Must Wait a Generation for New Vote

Johnson: Scotland Must Wait a Generation for New Vote

Another Scottish independence referendum should not take place for a generation, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, as Scotland’s...

Pope Criticizes People Going on Holiday to Flee COVID Lockdowns

Pope Criticizes People Going on Holiday to Flee COVID Lockdowns

Pope Francis condemned on Sunday people who had gone abroad on holiday to escape coronavirus lockdowns, saying they needed to...

Fifth Body Found in Norway Mudslide; 5 Still Missing

Fifth Body Found in Norway Mudslide; 5 Still Missing

Rescue workers have uncovered a fifth body four days after a landslide buried homes near Norway’s capital, police said Sunday,...

Hundreds Charged With COVID Violations After French New Year’s Rave

Hundreds Charged With COVID Violations After French New Year’s Rave

More than 1,200 revelers were booked for breaking coronavirus restrictions as an illegal rave in northwestern France ended Saturday after...

In Graying Italy, the Old Defy Biases Laid Bare by Pandemic

In Graying Italy, the Old Defy Biases Laid Bare by Pandemic

From his newsstand at the bottom of two hilly streets in Rome, Armando Alviti has been dispensing newspapers, magazines and...

Lives of 900 Migrants in Bosnia at Risk as Impasse Over Shelter Continues 

Lives of 900 Migrants in Bosnia at Risk as Impasse Over Shelter Continues 

Humanitarian agencies are urging Bosnian authorities to resolve their differences and provide immediate protection for hundreds of migrants, refugees and...

EU-China Investment Deal Threatens US-Europe Relations

EU-China Investment Deal Threatens US-Europe Relations

Just weeks before taking office, the incoming U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden has received an unwelcome housewarming gift from...

British Firms Mull Relocating To ‘Other Side of Brexit Curtain’

British Firms Mull Relocating To ‘Other Side of Brexit Curtain’

Despite Britain sealing a post-Brexit deal with the European Union, one that will allow for tariff-free trade in goods, some...

Pope Reappears After Pain Flare-up, Calls for Peace in New Year Message

Pope Reappears After Pain Flare-up, Calls for Peace in New Year Message

Pope Francis reappeared Friday after chronic sciatic pain forced him to miss the Church’s New Year services and made no...

UK Begins Post-Brexit Future

UK Begins Post-Brexit Future

Britain on Friday began a new year and life outside Europe, after leaving the bloc’s single market trading rules to...