Three days after Apple  pulled its new Group FaceTime feature offline after users found they could eavesdrop on people before accepting a call, the company says it has fixed the bug on its end. “We have fixed the Group FaceTime security bug on Apple’s servers and we will issue a...

Sri Lanka is negotiating a $1 billion loan from China to construct a highway linking the capital Colombo to the hilly resort city of Kandy, even as the heavily-indebted South Asian island nation makes arrangements to pay down $5.9 billion in foreign loans this year. Finance Ministry...

A number of Twitter  users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared. Instead, the company confirmed that...

t's been widely mooted for a number of weeks that Real Madrid will once again return to Porto in order to sign a talented, young defender, yet Eder Militao's move to the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu has been delated due to a dispute over a compensatory training fee.  Los Blancos have...

Qatar is celebrating a historic first Asian Cup win after beating Japan in the 2019 final Friday. The national team beat the four-time champions 3-1 at Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. People in the capital, Doha, watched the match from huge screens set...

General Motors is expected to lay off about 4,000 salaried workers under a reorganization announced late last year, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. The layoffs are part of a cost-cutting plan GM announced in November, which will slash 15 percent of its salaried and contract...

Three men were Friday charged with supplying the weapon used by the gunman in the Christmas market attack in the French city of Strasbourg and placed in pre-trial detention, a judicial source said. The three suspects, from the same family and aged 32, 34 and 78, were indicted by an...

They embraced the socialist revolution of late leader Hugo Chavez along with millions of other Venezuelans, but four former officials have now been left disillusioned by Nicolas Maduro's regime. These officials from the Chavez era consider Maduro "illegitimate," but they are torn between...

In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be doused by trade deals or commercial theft crackdowns. US spy chiefs abruptly shifted their view...

Nigeria has recorded 42 deaths in the latest outbreak of Lassa fever, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control said late Friday.  The center had on Jan. 21 declared an outbreak of the disease, which kills hundreds in Nigeria every year.  “Since the onset of the 2019 outbreak,...

It is time for embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down from power, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Friday. "This is no time for dialogue. This is time for action," Pence told a raucous gathering of Venezuelan exiles and community leaders in Florida. "It is time to end...

Muslim women in the British capital gathered on a wintry Friday evening to commemorate World Hijab Day, which celebrates the head covering and the women who wear it.  Marking the annual event for the first time in London, the women came together to discuss the issues faced by those who...

The Paris coordinator of France’s Yellow Vest protest movement said Friday they are preparing to participate in European Union parliamentary elections. In remarks made on the BFM TV news channel, Thierry Paul Valette said they have created a list of candidates from the movement, called the...

The United States has stopped all aid towards Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, as a part of an anti-terrorism legislation passed last year. A State Department official confirmed the decision to Anadolu Agency, saying that the assistance was ceased following a...

In a post published Friday, the fact-checking organization Snopes announced that it would no longer work with Facebook to fact-check stories shared on the platform. "At this time we are evaluating the ramifications and costs of providing third-party fact-checking services, and we want...

The mother of all Samsung leaks just hit the internet in form of an official teaser video for upcoming devices. The video, uploaded by Samsung Vietnam according to XDA Developers, shows a foldable phone, a bezel-less, notch-less phone, and a new tablet — among other gadgets.  But...

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is running for her party’s presidential nomination, has apologized to the Cherokee Nation for her decision to take a DNA test to prove her Native American  ancestry, a move that had angered some tribal leaders and ignited a...

Asia’s venture capital-backed startups are gunning for Starbucks . In China, the U.S. coffee giant is being pushed by Luckin Coffee, a $2.2 billion challenger surfing China’s on-demand wave, and on the real estate side, where WeWork China has just unveiled an on-demand product that...

The use of rubber bullets by security forces has become a major source of controversy in France because of dozens of injuries to people during violent demonstration by "yellow vest" protesters. Campaigners lost a legal bid on Friday to suspend their use in France. Elsewhere in Europe,...

Qatar coach Felix Sanchez shrugged off comparisons to Pep Guardiola on Friday after masterminding a breathtaking Asian Cup victory just three years before the 2022 World Cup on home turf. Almoez Ali scored a tournament-record nine goals and the Maroons conceded only once as they swept to...