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Tesla confirmed that CEO Elon Musk earned the first tranche of his massive incentive payout, in a document filed…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a Thursday press conference that he will sign an executive order allowing…

Two years after admitting under political pressure that Facebook must do more to prevent disinformation campaigns…

The Dubai government announced new measures to lift restrictions on businesses, allowing gyms, movie theaters,…

The Premier League season is set to restart on 17 June with Aston Villa v Sheffield United and Manchester City v…

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order targeting social media firms, the White House has said. It…

Some 8.4 million workers are now covered by the government's furlough scheme, up from eight million a week earlier,…

The United States surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths as of Wednesday afternoon, according to NBC News' count,…

A group of 23 U.S. states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging a Trump…

The French government has announced an €8bn (£7.1bn) rescue plan for its car industry, which has been severely…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after…

The team developing Switzerland's coronavirus contact-tracing app says it has become the first to have launched a…

A post by US President Donald Trump has been given a fact-check label by Twitter for the first time. Mr Trump…

Barbershops and hair salons can re-open with some changes to their operations in parts of California where public…

Argentina’s ninth default on its external debt is now official after some of its bonds were cut to default status…

German consumer confidence recovered some of the ground lost due the coronavirus shock but it remains deep in…

Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it will end its nationwide coronavirus curfew from June 21, except in the holy city of…

Stocks that seemed resilient to the Covid-19 pandemic faced pressure Tuesday, as investors rallied around a…

Denouncing “racism of any kind,” a global investment firm has fired a white woman after a viral video showed her…

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government issued an unprecedented worldwide travel warning to Germans on 17 March…

World shares forged ahead on Tuesday and commodity markets drove higher as well, as investors disregarded Sino-U.S.…

Gross domestic product (GDP) across OECD countries fell by 1.8% in the first quarter of 2020 as Covid-19…

All non-essential retailers will be able to reopen in England from 15 June, Boris Johnson has announced, as part of…

Since the Great Recession following the 2008 financial crisis, China and India have powered much of the world's…

The crisis that has engulfed the government over Dominic Cummings’ conduct continued to rage unabated after an…

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit company has tried unsuccessfully to launch a rocket over the Pacific Ocean. The…

Foreign visitors to Spain will no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July, the government has…

While most European countries failed to contain the coronavirus outbreak when it reached them in February and…

The German economy posted its largest decline in output since the financial crisis in the first quarter and entered…

Germany's highest civil court has ruled that Volkswagen must pay compensation to a motorist who had bought one of…