Five years ago today, Satya Nadella  took over as CEO at Microsoft, and by most any measure has been wildly successful. It’s common to look at the stock price as the defining metric of Nadella’s tenure, but the stock price triumph has followed something more fundamental and harder to...

Tens-of-thousands of Dutch citizens living in Britain will have until the end of the year to get their taxes in order in case of a no-deal Brexit, the Dutch government said Monday. Britain is set to become a "third country" if it quits the European Union without a deal on March 29, leaving...

Russia's economy expanded 2.3 percent last year, growing more quickly than the government and the IMF had predicted, according to state statistics published Monday. Russia's growth rate accelerated from 1.6 percent in 2017 and exceeded the economy ministry's prediction of 1.8 percent as...

An hour south of Paris in the town of Montargis, "yellow vest" demonstrators like Isa Duchesne have no intention of stopping their 12-week protest against President Emmanuel Macron or being drawn into his "great national debate." At a roundabout in the south of the town, where violent...

Google this morning unveiled a pair of new Android features for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. As the company notes in a blog post this morning, the WHO estimates that 900 million people will be living with hearing loss by 2055. The ubiquity of mobile devices — Android in particular —...

Nissan's decision to axe planned production of the X-Trail SUV in the Brexit-backing city of Sunderland is a heavy blow to the British auto sector, which repeatedly warned against quitting the EU. The Japanese carmaker revealed Sunday that the crossover vehicle would no longer be...

England fullback Elliot Daly will leave Wasps at the end of the season, the English Premiership club announced on Monday. The 26-year-old, mainly deployed as a centre or wing at club level, has long been linked with a move away from Midlands side Wasps amid speculation he will join English...

Asia stocks hovered near four-month highs on Monday after a mixed performance on Wall Street at the close of last week, while the dollar firmed against the yen following strong U.S. employment and manufacturing data. Spread-betters expect European markets to start on a cautious note, with...

 Three British lawmakers on Monday endorsed reports that women activists detained in Saudi Arabia have been tortured, and said responsibility for what is likely a violation of international law could lie with “Saudi authorities at the highest level”.  The conclusions of the panel...

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq’s permission for U.S. troops stationed there to “watch Iran.” Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump’s comments to CBS about how he would ask troops stationed in...

nternational benchmark Brent crude traded at $62.90 per barrel at 06.39 GMT on Monday while American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) saw prices of $55.09. Crude oil prices were down at trading start on Friday as investors focused on talks between the U.S. and China in the hope that...

Afghanistan saw a bloody start to the new year with over 1,700 war-related casualties in January alone. Figures compiled by Anadolu Agency suggest more than 900 people were killed and at least 800 others were injured across Afghanistan in terrorist attacks and security operations. The...

Some 3,750 troops will be deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico, the Department of Defense said on Sunday. The troops will be sent to place barbed wire at key points of entry along the border in response to large migrant caravans that had been marching their way up from Central America to...

The wreckage of a plane that went off radar nearly two weeks ago near the Channel Islands while carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala has been found by a private search boat Sunday. The boat hired by Sala’s family spotted the plane, British media reports said. The shipwreck...

Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to resume normal relations with the rest of the world until the kingdom "puts on more than a show of change" after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Washington Post's Editorial Board said in an opinion piece. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the United States of maintaining a "silence" on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who killed by a Saudi hit team in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate. "I cannot understand America's silence... We want everything to be...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said his government maintained "low-level" contact through its spy agency with the Syrian regime despite being one of its most fervent critics Ankara fell out with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad following the 2011 crackdown on...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke Sunday with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, praising the "courage and leadership" of the national assembly head whom Ottawa recognizes as interim president, according to a statement. The phone call comes a day before a meeting of the...

Australian banks admitted to failing customers and vowed to "reset" their industry, as they braced for the release of a crunch report Monday into financial abuses in the sector. Mired in scandals, the wealthy lenders have sought to regain favour with the public and politicians as the...

 Wirecard said that a law firm it appointed has made no conclusive findings of criminal misconduct by any employee of the German payments firm and that there are indications the allegations stemmed from a quarrel between employees. Shares in the German member of the blue-chip DAX...