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Sweden's chief epidemiologist, who advocated a no-lockdown strategy to combat the coronavirus epidemic, concedes that more should have been done.

Europe's biggest travel company, TUI Group, said it has struck a deal with Boeing for compensation and deferred deliveries of the grounded 737 Max jet.

Remember the "yellow vests" movement that brought France to a standstill in late 2018? Now, Italy is seeing its own grassroots, anti-government, populist movement, the "Orange Vests."

State and local officials are ramping up efforts to ease the unrest, adding to police forces and imposing earlier curfews on major cities.

The euro is on course to climb against the dollar for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday, its longest winning streak since December 2013.

In April, OPEC+ agreed to cut oil production by a record 9.7 million barrels per day (b/d), approximately 10% of global output.

Scientists say digital immunity passports raise a number of issues, from how immunity is determined to the protection of users' privacy.

Student accommodation has been a "bullet-proof" investment, but experts predict it's now on track for a year of disruption due to the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the property market.

Unemployment in the euro zone rose to 7.3% in April, according to the latest data from Eurostat, reflecting job losses as coronavirus lockdowns were in full-swing across the single currency region.

Governor Andrew Bailey held a conference call on Tuesday with Britain's biggest lenders in which he emphasized that they needed to step up their plans for a no-deal Brexit, Sky reported.

Google has swiftly grown to take third place behind Amazon and Microsoft in the race to be a leader in the cloud computing industry.

The coronavirus has infected more than 6.37 million people around the world as of Wednesday morning in Asia, killing at least 380,251 people.

Pope Francis broke his silence on the tensions in the United States, which has seen eight nights of protests.

Pascal Cagni, Apple's former head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, hopes to cash in on start-ups that flourish after the pandemic.

Dynamic Product Ads will allow a business to effectively upload its catalog to Snap, before products are automatically put into a template and then shown to relevant app users.

Lebanon was facing a crippling economic crisis before the coronavirus, but government-imposed shutdowns to stop the spread of Covid-19 have forced even more Lebanese into poverty.

Stocks in Asia largely rose on Wednesday, with optimism over the reopening of economies as authorities ease coronavirus-induced lockdown measures continuing to keep investor sentiment afloat.

Facebook declined to reveal the size of its investment in Gojek when contacted by CNBC, but said in a blog post Tuesday the investment underscores its efforts to help bring small businesses online.

Lufthansa reported a significant loss for the first three months of the year and said restructuring was necessary on the back of the coronavirus pandemic.

A very public dispute has broken out between some of Italy's, and the world's, most high-profile doctors after one expert claimed the coronavirus "no longer exists clinically."