Do you ever sit back and imagine what life would be like if the COVID-19 outbreak never occurred? The reality is that the pandemic has had a profound impact on many people's lives -- both for better and for worse.
NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. In India, the app was banned nearly four years ago. Here's what happened: WHY DID INDIA BAN TIKTOK? In June 2020, TikTok users in India bid goodbye to the app, which is operated by Chinese internet firm ByteDance. New Delhi had suddenly banned the popular app, alongside dozens o
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The German debt-to-GDP ratio is likely to rise slightly this year but then fall steadily until 2028, the finance ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry expects the debt-to-GDP ratio at 64% in 2024, according to projections for the EU Commission, which were approved by the cabinet on Wednesday. In 2023, the debt-to-GDP ratio was at 63.6%.
Spanish feminist organisations have raised the alarm about abuses of the country’s ultra-liberal self-identifying gender law, pointing to cases in which men with a history of abuse are switching gender to access services reserved for female victims of violence.
Nepal's president asked the emir of Qatar, who is on a two-day visit to the South Asian country, to help release a Nepali student held hostage by Palestinian militant group Hamas, officials said on Wednesday. President Ram Chandra Poudel met with Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the president’s house in the capital, Kathmandu. Al Thani said he would do everything possible to help release Bipin Joshi, the Nepali president’s press advisor, Kiran Pokharel, told The Associated Press.
STORY: Video from Chinese state-run media showed buildings submerged in water while rescuers in bulldozers cleared debris in streets, after floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta.The province, once dubbed the "factory floor of the world”, is prone to summer floods. Its defenses against disruptive floods were severely tested in June 2022 when Guangdong was pounded by the heaviest downpours in six decades.Since Thursday (April 18), Guangdong has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall, with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the province's annual flooding season in May and June. Rains are expected to affect Guangdong for the rest of April.
Now in its 29th year, the prestigious prize is open to original fiction written in English by women from anywhere in the world.
HONG KONG (AP) — World shares advanced Wednesday, led by a 2.4% rally for Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index that was powered by strong gains for semiconductor makers. European markets opened higher. Germany’s DAX was up 0.4% to 18,200.49 and the CAC 40 in Paris edged less than 0.1% higher to 8,109.21. In London, the FTSE 100 rose 0.4% to 8,078.50. The future for the S&P 500 was up 0.2% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was virtually unchanged. In Asian trading, Japan’s benchmark Nik
Prince William and Princess Kate's son, Louis, celebrated his sixth birthday with a new photo - and Kate Middleton has a habit of including the same detail in the annual portrait
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Volkswagen aims to preserve its market share in China at about 15% in 2030, the head of its China business said, betting heavy investment there will help it maintain its competitiveness against local electric vehicle (EV) rivals. Volkswagen ceded its title of best-selling car brand in China to Chinese EV giant BYD in late 2022, and the group's market share in China fell to 14.5% last year from 19.3% in 2020 as combustion-engine sales declined. Group board member and China chief Ralf Brandstaetter told reporters Volkswagen was confident it could maintain or slightly increase this share.
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BEIJING (AP) — As auto giant Volkswagen AG races to catch up with upstart Chinese competitors, it has drivers like 26-year-old Ren Yiling in mind. She is young and wants to play video games in her car. The digital features of her Zeekr 001, a European-designed electric car from China's Geely Holding Group, appeal to her. She uses her smartphone to help her parents adjust their seats and tells an animated voice assistant to open the window or play music. “I once sung karaoke in the car when trave
A Boeing 737 was forced to make an emergency landing in South Africa on Sunday after one of its wheels came off shortly after takeoff.
The high court will hear arguments to determine whether some states can ban abortions even in emergency situations.
The Notting Hill actor played Bridget's on-off love interest Daniel Cleaver in 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary and the 2004 sequel, The Edge of Reason. However, he opted out of the third film, 2016's Bridget Jones's Baby, and Daniel was seemingly killed off, but a teaser at the end revealed he had survived a plane crash, allowing Grant to return. When asked why he signed up for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, he told Access Hollywood, "Because it's a really good script... This one has a lot of heart as well as being very funny.
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