U.S., allies urge Facebook for backdoor to encryption as they fight child abuse
The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia have called on Facebook Inc to not go ahead with end-to-end encryption across its messaging services unless...
Unmarried couple frets over Indonesia’s sex ban
After 13 years together, one middle-aged Indonesian couple is worried. Their relationship is neither legal nor official, and a controversial new penal code to be...
Britain’s John Lewis withholds service payments to landlords
British department stores group John Lewis has told shopping centers landlords it will withhold 20% of this quarter’s service charge as it seeks to cut...
Shell promotes Australia head to run global conventional oil, gas unit
Royal Dutch Shell has promoted its current Australia chief, Zoe Yujnovich, to the role of executive vice president for conventional oil and gas from Jan....
One-time UK prime ministerial hopeful, Rory Stewart, steps down
Rory Stewart, a one-time contender to become British prime minister, said on Friday he had resigned from the governing Conservative Party and would not run...
At least four killed in cargo plane crash landing in Ukraine
At least four crew were killed on Friday when a Ukrainian Antonov-12 cargo airplane made an emergency landing near the western airport of Lviv after...
Hong Kong leader invokes emergency powers to try to quell escalating violence
Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move...
Hong Kong leader invokes emergency powers to quell escalating violence
Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam on Friday invoked colonial-era emergency powers for the first time in more than 50 years in a dramatic move...
BP names Bernard Looney as next CEO, Dudley to leave in 2020
BP on Friday appointed head of upstream Bernard Looney as chief executive to succeed Bob Dudley when he retires next year after leading the oil...
‘This looks so bad,’ says Texas cop leading black man on a rope
One of two white police officers who rode through the streets of Galveston, Texas, on horseback escorting a black man walking tethered to a rope...