Exclusive: Wall Street firm dangled up to 175% returns to investors using U.S. aid programs
A New York investment firm pitched wealthy investors in recent days on a way to make returns of 22% to 175% using U.S. government programs...
Pass the salt: The minute details that helped Germany build virus defences
One January lunchtime in a car parts company, a worker turned to a colleague and asked to borrow the salt....
Top Swiss court upholds prosecutor’s removal from soccer corruption probe
Switzerland’s top court rejected Attorney General Michael Lauber’s bid to rejoin investigations of corruption in soccer, refusing to overturn a lower court’s ruling that his...
With tourists gone, Africa’s conservationists brace for the worst
The orphaned baby elephants ambled in for their morning feed at Kenya’s Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT), but the hundreds of visitors who would normally be...
Trump’s economic dilemma sharpens as Biden gets set for 2020 race – CNN
Trump’s economic dilemma sharpens as Biden gets set for 2020 race CNN The briefings aren’t working: Trump’s approval rating takes a dip POLITICO Polls suggest public approval...
Hungary registers over 100 coronavirus cases in old people’s home
Hungary has found more than 100 coronavirus infections in an old people’s home in Budapest, Surgeon General Cecilia Muller told a news briefing on Thursday....
Paris neighbours ease lockdown blues with quiz from balconies
“What country’s flag has a yellow cross on a blue background?” Noam Cartozo shouts out of the fifth-floor window of his Paris apartment. “Sweden!” comes...
Tesla’s China sales hit record high in March: industry association
Tesla Inc sold 10,160 vehicles in China in March, its highest ever monthly sales in the world’s largest auto market, the China Passenger Car Association...
India and Pakistan locked in border fighting amid coronavirus crisis
Indian and Pakistani troops in disputed Kashmir are engaged in their most frequent cross-border fighting of at least two years, official data shows, even as...
Ecuador’s handling of corpses to be probed
Family members in Ecuador have complained via social media that public hospitals have failed to quickly locate the bodies of their loved ones and in...