Google fined €2.95bn by EU for abusing advertising dominance
Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector – the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online…
Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza
Supplied Guy Gilboa-Dalal is seen in the video shared by Hamas, claiming to be in Gaza City Hamas has released a video showing two Israeli hostages seized from a music…
‘I missed Lisbon funicular commute that killed my friend’
As Sonia Silva prepared to leave work on Wednesday evening, she was asked by a colleague to help with a quick task. It meant she missed her regular funicular ride…
Tesla proposes $1tn award for Elon Musk if he hits ambitious targets
Tesla boss Elon Musk will receive a pay package worth over $1tn (£740bn) if he hits a list of ambitious targets over the next decade, the board of the electric…
Might Xi and Putin be onto something?
Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC News BBC Organ transplants certainly save lives but having surgery is a big undertaking with significant risks Is it possible to become immortal with the…
Rajasthan farmer gives up home so children can study there
Abhishek DeyBBC News, Delhi Riyaz Khan Makeshift classrooms have been set up in Mor Singh’s house An Indian farmer from the hilly village of Piplodi in the western Indian state…
Aid workers use donkeys to reach Tarasin village in Darfur
Aid workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in Sudan’s western Darfur…
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people allegedly in the country illegally. The 3,000-acre site, which was…
Arundhati Roy’s fierce memoir on life with her mercurial mother
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent AFP via Getty Images Roy’s debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker and made her a celebrity at 36 “Someone once asked me what…
Thailand names third prime minister in two years
Jonathan HeadBBC News, Bangkok and Joel GuintoBBC News, Singapore Getty Images Anutin is Thailand’s third prime minister in two years Thailand’s parliament has chosen business tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul as the…