Tunisia approves law excluding prominent presidential election candidate
Tunisia’s parliament on Tuesday passed an amendment to the electoral law that will exclude leading presidential candidate Nabil Karoui from an election expected to take...
Thousands of Brotherhood supporters in Turkey mourn Egypt’s Mursi
Thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey took to the streets of capital Ankara and Istanbul on Tuesday to mourn former Egyptian president...
Egyptian ex-president Mursi buried in Cairo as Islamists mourn
Modern Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Mursi, was buried in a small family ceremony on Tuesday, a day after suffering a fatal heart attack...
AI smart speaker tech means Alexa can always hear you
Artificial intelligence can cancel out background noise and ensure your smart speaker can still hear you no matter how noisy the room is. Stuart McDill...
Cookbook serves up insects and algae as future foods
Food innovation cookbook “Future Food Today”, by IKEA-backed research lab Space10, is a collection of sustainable recipes using ingredients such as dried grasshoppers and mealworms....
Facebook to launch bitcoin cryptocurrency rival
Facebook plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra next year as part of its wider efforts to expand beyond social networking into e-commerce and global...
No provisions in USMCA to change U.S. pharmaceutical patent laws: Lighthizer
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has no provisions that would force changes to U.S. laws with respect to pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said...
Germany needs to ease rules to hit 2030 renewables target
Germany needs to ease restrictions on the location and size of solar power plants and wind turbines and increase incentives if the country is to...
Lyft, Agero partner to offer rides for consumers requiring tow assistance
Roadside assistance provider Agero Inc said on Tuesday it would partner with ride hailing company Lyft Inc to provide rides for consumers whose cars are...
Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometers from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk...