Year: 2015

LONDON: Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple are among the companies who have released transparency reports, and the latest name ...

BRUSSELS: Belgium is committed to importing more palm oil from Malaysia for its food industry, according to its ambassador to ...

BUDAPEST: Approximately 3,700 employees could be affected by the recent brokerage scandals, as they may face losing their jobs, Hungarian ...

WASHINGTON: MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It ...

BELGIUM: The 10th conference of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (Textile ETP) took place ...

BERLIN: Czech police say they have seized a record amount of cocaine in a shipment of bananas for a supermarket. ...

BERN: The recruitment agency Randstad, announced the 10 winners of its 2015 best-Swiss-employer awards. Nine of the top ten were ...

NEW YORK: Researchers at Stanford have made aluminium battery.  Compared with today's lithium-ion options, the researchers' aluminium-ion batteries are cheaper, ...

NEW DELHI: Indian Customs seized lorry that was used in sand smuggling near Omalur. On a tip off, a police ...

HONG KONG: Scientists don't think polar bears have much of a chance if they are forced off of sea ice ...

BERN: Temporary employees worked a total of 161 million hours and earned total wages of 4.7 billion francs, said temporary ...

AMSTERDAM: The US and Canada are fuelling a record influx of foreign investment in the Netherlands. Despite a fair bit ...

LONDON: Optus collaboration with an international satellite start-up using its laser beam technology to boost its satellite offering. The Telco’s ...

AMSTERDAM: Starbucks Corp. is going through the grinder in Europe. The world’s biggest coffee chain has raised suspicions among regulators ...

SYDNEY:"Australia, you are very beautiful," was the gobsmacked reaction of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly as he soared above the nation's ...

HELSINKI: Finland’s Stockmann has signed an agreement regarding the selling of its subsidiary. The transaction covers over 82 Seppälä stores ...

BERLIN: Before getting behind the wheel of a £200,000, 200mph sports car, you might at least spare a few months ...

LONDON: WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton announced recently that the voice calling feature will soon come to iOS users, although platform ...

MANILA: Philippines customs of bureau (BOC) will be auctioned around 21,460 sacks of smuggled rice worth over P22 million at ...

PARIS: Using archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf ...