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Chinese technology giants including Alibaba have seen slower-to-no-growth as China's economy faces weakness as a result of Beijing's zero-Covid policy.Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesChinese technology giants are coming off the back…

TOWNER, N.D. — Darrell Rice stood in a field of corn he’d planted in early June, to be harvested in the fall and chopped up to feed the hundreds of cows and calves he raises in central North Dakota.“It should be six, seven, eight foot…

Covid cases are doubling in several states and hospitals are starting to fill again, especially in states with lower vaccination rates, as the highly contagious Delta variant rips across the country.Two of the states that were hardest hit…

The R.S.V. surge, which has been seen in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand as well, is likely the result of pandemic lockdowns, which created a much larger population of susceptible young children. A cohort of babies, now…

Employees of the Tunisian community saw them carry a coffin of a COVID-19 victim in the regional hospital during the coronavirus infections.Jdidi Wassim | SOPA pictures | LightRakete | Getty ImagesAfrica, where less than 2% of the…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the crew of a cargo ship loaded with toxic chemicals that has burned off the coast of the island nation for 12 days, spilling debris into the sea and…

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk past the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIndia stocks were among Asia-Pacific's top-performing markets in…

The opportunity for a new era in UK television begins in the studios of LBC, a radio station that has reviewed and effectively expanded UK legal broadcast news balance requirements. Rather than offering recitations of news developments in…

General Motors employees work on the assembly line at the Fairfax Assembly & Stamping Plant in Kansas City, Kansas on Friday, April 26, 2019. The Fairfax facility produces the Cadillac XT4 and the Chevrolet Malibu.Jim Barcus for…

Here’s what you need to know:Newcastle, in northern England, in December. Britain’s services sector, which has been shut down for much of the past year because of lockdowns, declined by 8.9 percent.Credit...Mary Turner for The New York…