US chipmaker Qualcomm will pay $975m (£640m) to Chinese authorities to end a 14 month anti-trust investigation into its patent licensing practices. The fine is the largest in China's corporate...
A riot outside a major football match in Egypt has killed at least 25 people, authorities have said.The violence came ahead of a game between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at the...
HSBC's Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid tax and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a network of investigative journalists. The British banking giant provided accounts...
An Ubuntu-powered smartphone is coming to the market a year and a half after a previous attempt to launch a model via crowdfunding failed.The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition relies on a card-like user...
Aldemir Bendine, a leading banker, is the new chief executive of Brazil's scandal-hit oil giant Petrobras.He was not among the names touted for the job and will be seen as a safe choice for President...
E-cigarettes contain toxic chemicals which could damage the lungs and immune system, scientists have discovered.Experiments carried out on mice found e-cigarette fumes harmed the animals' lungs and...
The number of new cases of Ebola went up in all three of West Africa's worst-hit countries in the last week of January, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. It is the first weekly...
IBM is reportedly planning its largest corporate layoff ever - cutting 111,800 of its staff.A report by a respected Silicon Valley journalist for Forbes said around 26% of the company's...
A teenager has died in New York as he crashed into a lamppost while snow-tubing amid a huge storm in the northeast US.Sean Urda, 17, was pronounced dead in hospital after the collision while riding...
Two law professors in Turkey have written to Twitter asking the social network to cease blocking accounts in the country because it violates human rights. Yaman Akdeniz and Kerem Altıparmak said...
Apple boss Tim Cook is in line to receive half a billion dollars' worth of stock if he remains as chief executive and hits targets over the next six years. He received $338m (£225m) in time-based...
Microsoft unveiled new glasses that overlay holograms on the real world, as it launched its latest operating system, Windows 10.The HoloLens lets wearers use their hands to interact with virtual...