(The Guardian)- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new steps to counter fake news on the platform on Saturday, marking a departure from his skepticism that online misinformation is, as Barack Obama said this week, a threat to democratic institutions. “We take misinformation...

For more than six years, Donald Trump fought hard against a lawsuit in which former customers of his now-defunct Trump University accused him of fraud. Less than two weeks after being elected president, he agreed to a $25 million settlement. "We definitely detected a change of tone and...

 British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail sentence after being accused of sedition in Iran has reached "breaking point" and considered suicide, rights group Amnesty said Saturday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced in September...

Chinese state media warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday against flip-flopping on trade deals in Asia, as Asia-Pacific leaders gathered for a summit amid fears that growing protectionism will stunt global economic growth. During the raucous election campaign, Trump fuelled...