Minaj skipped this year's Met Gala, which enforced a vaccine mandate, saying she was generally avoiding public events because she has a new baby at home.
There is a new international order, where competition is fierce and some nations "stop at nothing to gain influence," President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Kai-Fu Lee, the ex-president of Google China, warned that the West should be careful not to overstate the recently introduced tech regulations by Beijing.
The U.K.'s consumer prices index surged by 3.2% in the 12 months to August, official data showed on Wednesday, the largest ever month-on-month increase since records began.
China's retail sales grew 2.5% in August from a year ago as the country dealt with the worst outbreak of Covid-19 since its initial spread in early 2020.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe tweeted that the company's first R1T pickup for customers drove off the assembly line Tuesday morning at its plant in Normal, Illinois.
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei said it is expanding its team of scientists even as the company has lost revenue in the wake of U.S. sanctions.
Tech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth by genetically engineering Asian elephants.
Theranos' longtime controller testified Tuesday that the company lost hundreds of millions of dollars while Holmes gave investors rosy revenue predictions.