Taxi-booking app Uber has agreed to sell its business in China to rival Didi Chuxing. The two firms have been fierce competitors, but Didi Chuxing dominates the Chinese market with an 87% share. Uber China launched in 2014 but has failed to...
Strong earnings from Amazon and a boost to the company's stock have made its founder, Jeff Bezos, the world's third richest person, according to Forbes. Mr Bezos owns 18% of Amazon's shares, which rose 2% in trading on Thursday. Forbes esti...
When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a new study confirms. The average Dutchman is now 183cm (6ft) tall, while the average Latvian woman reaches 170cm (5ft 7in). The research, published in...
(CNN)Hypersonics, electric propulsion, triple deckers -- think you've seen everything when it comes to new aircraft concepts? Well just hold on a second, here comes the pod plane. It's yet another revolutionary aircraft design, this one cr...
Russia should be banned from this summer's Olympics and Paralympics after evidence was found of a four-year, state-sponsored doping programme, says the World Anti-Doping Agency. A Wada-commissioned report found urine samples of Russian compe...
A senior Chinese official has said China has the right to set up an air defence zone over territory it claims in the South China Sea. The statement from Vice-Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin comes a day after an international tribunal said there...
Cristiano Ronaldo wept tears of despair then tears of joy as the Euro 2016 final took him on an emotional journey from his lowest low to the high of lifting Portugal's first major trophy. The 31-year-old Real Madrid superstar carried his cou...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Braving intense radiation, a NASA spacecraft reached Jupiter on Monday after a five-year voyage to begin exploring the king of the planets. Ground controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed M...
Commemorations are being held in the UK and France to mark the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. The nation fell silent to mark the moment on 1 July 1916 when the battle began and the start of the bloodiest day in British mi...
Chinese Culture Comes Alive at Shanghai Disney Resort...
BASF helps Hangzhou implement sustainable development goals prior to G20 Summit BASF’s polyurethane binder system Elastopave® prevents floods and retai...
German carmaker Volkswagen has reportedly reached a $15bn (£11.3bn) settlement with US car owners after admitting it cheated emission tests. The deal would offer to repair or buy back the affected diesel vehicles and pay owners compens...
First lady Michelle Obama get a hug from actress Meryl Streep, who is participating inthe United State of Women Summit. From Oprah Winfrey to an 11-year-old Internet sensation who started her own company, more than 5,000 women are part...
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The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat. "As a woman in the United States Army, I think ... we are just as toug...
A missing 7-year-old boy was found unharmed after searchers spent nearly a week combing dense forest on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, officials said Friday. He was discovered in a small building at a military exercise ground abou...
When Apple releases the iPhone 7 later this year, the company will reportedly address one of the most common and longstanding complaints about its iconic smartphone: a lack of sufficient storage. Indeed, even as the iPhone has becom...
The US nuclear weapons force still uses a 1970s-era computer system and 8-inch floppy disks, a government report has revealed. The Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon was one of several departments where "legacy...
Google pulled data from its search trends to reveal the top word most people have trouble spelling in each state. The result is a list that would likely make the super spellers competing in the Scripps National Spelling Bee laugh. Using s...
Steve Jobshad a vision beyond our understanding. His idea right from the beginning was to change everything. During his life he changed at least 4 things that most of the population in the world uses every day – he developed thePC, ...