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They risked all to cross the Red Sea; now a cruel fate awaits in Yemen

Saudi Arabia was Tigrit’s dream: A place where she could find work as a cleaner or maid, and send money back to her husband...

British thief helped steal £10,000 of items from delivery vans was caught by his own CCTV

Police used a thief’s own CCTV footage to catch him red-handed with £10,000 of stolen goods from a delivery van.

Almost 2b depend on health centers without basic water services: UN report

Around 1.8 billion people are at heightened risk of COVID-19 and other diseases because they use or work in health care facilities without basic...

Gold declines as investors track vaccine rollout, stimulus talks

Gold eased Monday as investors tracked the deployment of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the US and the continuation of talks over a stimulus...

Pound rises on Brexit talks extension, stocks mixed

Sterling rallied Monday after Britain and the EU agreed to extend talks on a post-Brexit trade deal past a self-imposed deadline, while Asian markets...

Japan business confidence improves again after virus plunge

Confidence among major Japanese manufacturers has recovered further after plunging on coronavirus pandemic woes to its worst level since the global financial crisis, a...

Scientists set new world record in solar cell efficiency

Improving the efficiency of solar cells can make a huge difference to the amount of energy produced from the same surface area and the...

EU rights watchdog warns of pitfalls in use of AI

The European Union’s rights watchdog warned of the risks of using artificial intelligence (AI) in predictive policing, medical diagnoses and targeted advertising as the...

Researchers reveal how our brains know when something’s different

Imagine you are sitting on the couch in your living room reading. You do it almost every night. But then, suddenly, when you look...

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