A powerful cyclone tore into eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, destroying mud houses and embankments and whipping up a storm surge along the coast, officials said, after millions of people were moved out of its path.
A new report has suggested that alternating strict measures with intervals of relaxed social distancing could be a more effective way of slowing the spread of Covid-19 than indefinite or milder lockdowns.
CEO Herbert Diess and non-executive Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch were accused of stock market manipulation for withholding market-moving information on rigged emissions tests.
The U.S. is to send 200 ventilators to Russia after President Vladimir Putin called President Trump to ask for help, the U.S. State Department told CNBC.
Russia's coronavirus cases surpassed 300,000 on Wednesday, cementing its position as the second-worst-hit country from the virus after the U.S., but there are increasing questions over the country's low death toll.
The U.K. and the EU have many differences yet to overcome as they try to get a new trade deal by the end of the year — a political hot potato that could bring additional economic uncertainty, for both.
Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen said Wednesday that China and Taiwan need to find "a way to coexist" and that she is willing to engage in dialogue with Beijing.
The University of Cambridge, which is more than 800-years-old, is cancelling face-to-face lectures for the next academic year as a result of coronavirus.