TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance says it has no intention of selling the business after the US passed a law to force it to sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in America.
"ByteDance doesn't have any plans to sell TikTok," the (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eyeing a historic third consecutive term in general elections being held in April and May.
A nationwide poll by India Today magazine last August showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's popularity (...)
TikTok said a potential ban on its app in the US would "trample the free speech" of 170 million Americans.
The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban TikTok if the app's owner does not cut its ties with China.
The legislation was part (...)
After months of delay, the House of Representatives is due to vote on tens of billions of dollars in US military aid for Ukraine and Israel.
Both measures have vocal opponents in Congress, and their hopes of passage have hinged on a fragile (...)
Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention.
The Tobacco and Vapes (...)
Former British PM Liz Truss has endorsed Donald Trump to win this year's US presidential election, saying the "world was safer" when he was in the White House.
The UK's shortest-serving prime minster said the world was "on the cusp of very, very (...)
RIYADH — Inflation, which is measured by consumer price index, dropped to 1.6 percent during the last month of March, compared to 2.8 percent in the previous month of February and 2.7 percent in the month of March 2023, according to the latest (...)
President Biden's pressure on Israel after last week's deadly attack on aid workers did not go far enough and will fail to stem the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to current and former US officials who have spoken to the BBC.
They said (...)
An Indian actor running for election as a candidate for the ruling party has been forced to deny eating beef.
Kangana Ranaut, a vocal supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the claims by her opponents are "shameful" and "baseless (...)
خطط لعطلتك الصيفية في دبي الآن واحصل على عروض فندقية مذهلة. استمتع بخصم يصل إلى 50% على الإقامة في الفندق عند قيامك بالحجز حتى 10 أبريل، للإقامة في الفترة ما بين 1 يونيو و31 أغسطس 2024.
سواء كنت تبحث عن إقامة في قلب المدينة، أو إجازة مريحة على (...)
The destruction wrought across the Gaza Strip by Israel in the six months since the massacre of Israeli and other citizens by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023 makes for grim reading – over 33,000 people killed and, according to the World Bank, over one million (...)
Three former Supreme Court justices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the UK government to end weapons sales to Israel.
In a letter to the prime minister, they said exports must end because the UK risks breaking international (...)
India's Supreme Court has granted bail to an opposition MP and leader of Delhi's governing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in a money laundering case.
Sanjay Singh was arrested in October in an investigation into the city's now-scrapped policies over alcohol (...)
RIYADH — The National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia is set to make a significant impact at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia with "Shifting Sands: A Battle Song," a compelling multimedia installation by renowned Saudi artist (...)
While a third of humanity faces food insecurity, an equivalent of one billion meals go to waste every day, a new report by the UN environment agency (UNEP) revealed on Wednesday. One fifth of food is thrown away.
The UN Environment Program's Food (...)
The floating piece of wood that kept Titanic's Rose alive has been sold for $718,750 (£569,739) at auction.
Ever since the release of the 1997 film, fans have wondered whether the panel was big enough to fit her love interest Jack as well, saving (...)
Japan's cabinet has approved the export of new fighter jets it is developing with the UK and Italy, in the latest move away from its pacifist policies.
It eased arms export rules to allow the jets to be sold to countries that Japan has signed (...)
MAKKAH — The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque has introduced smart golf carts for tawaf (circumambulation around the Holy Kaaba). The golf cart service is made available on the roof of the (...)
Battlelines are drawn after the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal by India's financial crimes agency over an alleged policy scam.
His Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) called for nationwide protests outside the offices of Prime Minister Narendra (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Commerce started taking punitive measures against some commercial establishments and individuals who organized lottery retail prize draws for commercial goods with a condition that consumers must purchase goods as a (...)
RIYADH — The number of point-of-sale operations in Saudi Arabia during the first week of Ramadan (March 10-16) reached 168,615,000, with a value of SR11,688,154,000.
According to the weekly bulletin for points of sale, issued by the Saudi Central (...)
An auction of the villa of Myanmar's detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi has failed after no bids were made for it.
A court had ordered its sale in January following a long-running ownership dispute with her brother.
Lawyers for Ms Suu Kyi, who has (...)
Former President Donald Trump is in panic mode as the deadline approaches to secure a half-billion-dollar bond to appeal his civil fraud case in New York, according to multiple sources familiar with his thinking.
Trump's lawyers acknowledged Monday (...)
An Indian man who made a fortune by selling lottery tickets is in the spotlight after he was revealed to be the top donor to political parties under a controversial funding scheme.
Santiago Martin's company, Future Gaming and Hotel Services Pvt. (...)
Marmite and Dove soap-owner Unilever is to cut about 7,500 jobs worldwide, as part of an extensive three-year cost-saving plan.
The group also said it would split off its ice cream business which includes the Wall's, Ben & Jerry's and Magnum (...)