India and Bangladesh brace for super cyclone
Coronavirus quarantine shelters in India were being converted to cyclone shelters ahead of a super storm expected to inflict large scale damage across India and...
Lesotho PM, named as suspect in murder case, bows to pressure to quit
Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane bowed to pressure to resign on Tuesday, three months after police named him and his current wife as suspects in...
Tested in harbour, Spanish fishermen return to sea
Spanish fishermen are taking coronavirus tests before returning to sea to avoid spreading infection among colleagues at close quarters in boats as the industry creaks...
Investor TCI files criminal complaint against Wirecard managers
The investor TCI Fund Management said on Tuesday that it has filed a criminal complaint against Wirecard managers with public prosecutors in Munich....
China’s Wuhan conducts 467,847 COVID-19 tests, says health authority
The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak in China, conducted 467,847 nucleic acid tests on May 18, the local health...
Some signs children may not transmit COVID-19, two UK epidemiologists say
There are tentative signs that children may not spread the novel coronavirus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on Tuesday, though they cautioned...
Walmart’s same-store sales rise 10%, online revenues surge
Walmart Inc’s first-quarter U.S. comparable sales rose 10% and the retailer reported a 74% rise in online revenue on Tuesday as stockpiling of groceries and...
Oil steady on signs of output cuts but demand concerns weigh
Oil prices were steady on Tuesday amid signs that producers are cutting output as promised while traders awaited more clarity on the demand picture as...
Asda’s first-quarter sales boosted by coronavirus stocking-up
Asda, the British supermarket arm of the world’s biggest retailer Walmart , said on Tuesday its first-quarter comparable sales rose 3.5%, boosted by consumers stocking-up...
Zimbabweans in South Africa use app to send food home after border restrictions
Petronella Mabhena, a domestic worker in South Africa, has been paying bus drivers to ferry food to her relatives in Zimbabwe for over a decade....