Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at Amazon
Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp on Wednesday said they reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between...
Play the game, save the planet: Conservationists target video gamers
Chilli, a gibbon native to Borneo, will soon be jumping from tree to tree in parks from New York to Nairobi as a character in...
Poland dashes far-right hopes for alliance in new EU parliament
Far-right parties’ hopes of forging a powerful new bloc in the new European Parliament suffered a blow on Wednesday when Poland’s ruling nationalists ruled out...
Party of Ukraine’s new president well ahead in parliamentary election race
Servant of the People, the party of Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has increased its large lead over rivals ahead of a snap parliamentary election...
Rain clouds hang over Roland Garros as grand slam program is hit
Dark rain clouds hung ominously over Roland Garros on Wednesday as organizers grappled with scheduling changes....
Britain’s health service is not for sale, says defacto deputy PM
Britain’s defacto deputy prime minister, David Lidington, said on Wednesday the country’s public health service would not be put “up for sale” in any trade...
New season of ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ not meant to be ‘torture to watch,’ creator says
With its chilling portrait of a patriarchal dictatorship where women are routinely raped, mutilated and forcibly separated from their children, “The Handmaid’s Tale” has sometimes...
Fed’s slipstream leaves stocks beaming, dollar subdued
Global stocks gained for a third straight day on Wednesday, bolstered by investors’ growing hopes that the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates this year...
Divers find body from Budapest boat disaster, salvage plan begins
Divers found a body in the wreckage of a pleasure boat on Wednesday a week after the vessel capsized and sank on the River Danube...
Five dead, dozens feared missing after landslides in Uganda
Landslides after heavy rains in eastern Uganda have killed at least five people and dozens more are missing, the country’s Red Cross said on Wednesday....