The head of Twitter has hit back after Elon Musk said his $44bn deal to buy the platform was "on hold" while he sought details about fake accounts.
In a series of tweets, Parag Agrawal defended the firm's estimates that spam accounts were less than (...)
Two senior Twitter bosses are leaving the social media company in one of the biggest shake-ups since Elon Musk agreed to buy the firm.
The executives had been leading Twitter's consumer and revenue operations.
From this week, the firm has also (...)
The US has passed more than one million Covid-related deaths, says the White House.
President Joe Biden said the country was marking "a tragic milestone" and each death was "an irreplaceable loss".
It's the highest official total in the world — (...)
Apple has announced it is discontinuing its music player, the iPod Touch, bringing to an end a device widely praised for revolutionizing how people listen to music.
When the first iPod was launched in 2001, it could store 1,000 tracks. Today there (...)
Elon Musk were sued by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from completing his $44 billion takeover of the social media company before 2025.
In a proposed class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Orlando Police Pension Fund said (...)
More than 4.7 million people in India — nearly 10 times higher than official records suggest — are thought to have died because of Covid-19, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report.
India's government has rejected the figure, (...)
New Zealand welcomed tourists from the US, Canada, Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries for the first time in more than two years Monday after dropping most of its remaining pandemic border restrictions.
The country has long been renowned (...)
Twitter's board reportedly met Elon Musk over the weekend to explore his $43bn (£33.6bn) takeover offer for the social media platform.
After the Tesla boss first revealed his bid, Twitter's management announced a so-called "poison pill" strategy to (...)
Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person "threw a water bottle at him," Tyson's spokesperson has said.
Video taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he lands repeated punches an (...)
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion, or nearly €38 billion, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
Musk's offer price of $54.20 per share represents a 38 percent premium to the closing price of Twitter's stock on (...)
Twitter's biggest shareholder Elon Musk, has decided not to join its board, Chief Executive Parag Agrawal said late on Sunday.
Musk, who calls himself a free-speech absolutist and has been critical of Twitter, disclosed a 9.1% stake on April 4 and (...)
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has started making the iPhone 13 in India, the company said on Monday, as the U.S tech giant tries to reduce reliance on its Chinese supply chain.
The phone is being produced at a local plant of Apple's Taiwanese contract (...)
The current war in Ukraine, following the Russian invasion, has sparked all sorts of questions about the United Nations, particularly the role of the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Secretary-General.
Here at UN News, we've taken a (...)
The Holocaust "defined the United Nations", Secretary-General António Guterres told a virtual ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, recalling that the UN Charter was drafted in San Francisco "as the Dachau concentration camp was (...)
Several international airlines say they will cancel flights into the United States starting Wednesday amid uncertainty about interference between new 5G cell phone service and critical airplane technologies.
Emirates, Air India, All Nippon Airways (...)
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Northern California rattled a wide swath of the state shortly after noon local time, according to data from the US Geological Survey quoted by CNN.
The quake occurred just off Cape Mendocino near Humboldt (...)
Dozens of Rohingya refugees in the UK and US have sued Facebook, accusing the social media giant of allowing hate speech against them to spread, BBC reported.
They are demanding more than $150bn (£113bn) in compensation, claiming Facebook's (...)
Australia's border has reopened for the first time in 20 months, sparking emotional reunions to Sydney Airport.
Sydney's international airport came alive with tears, embraces and laughter on Monday as Australia's border opened for the first time in (...)
Greta Thunberg has called on banks to "stop funding our destruction", ahead of the UN COP26 climate summit, BBC News reported.
The teenage Swedish climate activist is in London to take part in protests demanding the financial system stops funding (...)
Twitter lost more than half a billion dollars in the three months to September after it paid $809.5m (£588m) to settle a long-running lawsuit, BBC reported.
The social media giant was accused of misleading investors over user engagement in (...)
India sold more electric vehicles in September than any month previously. Sales have been rising since April — the start of this financial year — and are already nearing the previous year's total, said a BBC report on Monday.
It's a glimmer of hope (...)
Scientists who discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one have won the Nobel Prize, BBC reported.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, from the US, share the 2021 prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on (...)
The Custodian of Two Holy Mosques King Salman confirmed Saudi Arabia's perpetual commitment with the international legitimacy principles and resolutions, respect of national sovereignty of all countries and non-interference in other countries (...)
Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted on Friday to recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for Americans 65 and older and those at high risk of severe illness, after overwhelmingly rejecting a call for broader approval, according to (...)
Saudi Arabia will host the World Club Handball Championship "Super Globe 2021" for the second time in a row in Jeddah from October 5 to 9, the Ministry of Sports announced on Friday. The championship will be held in coordination with the Saudi (...)
