The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.more

The family that owns Germany's luxury car manufacturer BMW has ended decades of silence about its role during the Nazi era and admitted to taking over scores of Jewish businesses and using tens of thousands of slave labourers at its factories during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.more

In its "Women, Business and the Law Index" report released Thursday, March 2, the World Bank says that women who are just entering the workforce will manage to retire before they have the same rights as men.more

Over the past three years – as a result of wars, pandemics and population exodus – Russia has lost about two million more people than excluding these factors, writes The Economist. “The life expectancy of boys, now 15, has fallen by almost five years in Russia to the same level as in Haiti,” it said.more

Two thieves stabbed four or five people before robbing them in a Milan street near the central train station in the northern city on Monday.more

At least 12 people have died across the U.S. in recent days from a mix of extreme weather events, including tornadoes, torrential rains and flooding across southern states, and historic snowfall on the West Coast. more

Farmers in Spanish Andalusia, apart from their daily work, are forced to patrol fields with crops at night due to a wave of fruit and vegetable theft by organized crime groups, according to Spanish media.more

A "biocomputer" powered by human brain cells could be developed in our lifetime, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University. They predict that such technology will exponentially expand the capabilities of modern computers and create new fields of research.more

The Spanish government of Pedro Sanchez has a very "sparse and unclear" policy of support for Ukraine attacked by Russia, according to the Madrid daily El Mundo, indicating that in terms of aid for Kiev, Spain is the least sacrificial country in the Western world.more

The South Korean government has introduced a draft amendment that would extend the maximum working week from 52 to 69 hours to allow companies greater flexibility. Koreans are already considered one of the most working nations in the world.more

Around 400 people flocked to Neumuenster in northern Germany over the weekend for a right-wing rock concert at an allotment club. Among them were members of the "Aryan Brotherhood". The club was hired for an "engagement party." When the police tried to stop the concert, the neo-Nazis barricaded themselves in the building and threw chairs at the police.more

Reports of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus leak from a Chinese laboratory are sensationalism or political friction between the United States and China. It seems to me that this is drawing the line between the superpowers, said virologist Prof. Agnieszka Szuster-Ciesielska.more

Up to several hundred thousand Ukrainian children have been abducted and taken to Russia since the beginning of the war, Daria Herasymchuk, Ukrainian ombudsman for children's rights, estimates in an interview with The Sunday Times. Only 307 children were brought back.more

The Italian Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Francesco Lollobrigida wants to discipline Italian restaurants in the world. "Enough with establishments that are supposedly Italian but use foreign products. Enough with cooks who can't cook in Italian and are the object of ridicule," he announced.more

Władimir Putin wierzył, że po inwazji na Ukrainę NATO się rozpadanie, a kraje zachodnie będą błagać Rosję, by nie wyrządzała im krzywdy - wynika z wyciekłych dokumentów rosyjskiej Federalnej Służby Bezpieczeństwa, o których donosi brytyjski "The Sun".more

Paris is the city most often visited by people traveling alone, reports the Belgian daily "Le Soir", referring to the research of the Airbnb booking platform. The top three in this category also include New York and London.more

More and more toilets for cows are being built in the Netherlands, reports the daily "Algemeen Dagblad". Not only can they help solve the problem of harmful nitrogen oxide emissions, but they can also - as the newspaper notes - become a source of profit for cattle farmers.more

Chinese armed forces must strengthen combat readiness - said Li Keqiang prime minister in the report delivered to the opening of the Parliament session in Beijing. The PRC defense budget will increase in 2023 by as much as 7.2 percent. up to 1.55 trillion yuan (USD 224 billion).more

Carabinieri in Sicily have found more than a thousand encrypted letters and notes written and addressed to Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of the local mafia arrested in January. The messages, called "pizzini" were in one of the boss's hideouts, in the homes of his partner and his sister, arrested before the weekend.more

The current year forecast promises to be an absolute record year for tourism in Italy. According to the forecasts presented, the highest ever number of hotel nights and tourists will be recorded. Half of them will be foreigners.more

The approval of cricket flour for use in food service has inspired Thomas Micolino, owner of an ice cream shop in Rottenburg on the Neckar River, to expand his offerings with a new flavor. Cricket ice cream there is served with a sprinkling of dried insects.more

This year's seasonal flu in Italy has broken all records for length and number of illnesses. It started unusually early, as early as last October, and continues to spread. The National Institute of Health Services reported that more than 11 million cases have been found so far.more

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced a new policy against sexual harassment. The catalyst for the changes was the "abhorrent cases" that occurred during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told reporters yesterday.more

The main reason for the "salad crisis"-a shortage and increase in the price of fresh vegetables in many European countries-is the bad weather in Spain and Morocco. In this situation, the priority for Spain is to protect its own market, the Spanish press reported.more

A biopsy confirmed that the skin lesion removed from Joe Biden's chest is a common form of skin cancer and all the cancerous tissue was successfully removed, White House physician Kevin O'Connor announced yesterday.more