Jet2holidays ready to fill void left by Thomas Cook's collapse

Jet2holidays' chief executive Steve Heapy says that the company would continue and expand operations in Turkey.

Nigerians turn to technology to fight hunger

A young software engineer Oscar Ekponimo developed an app, Chowberry, which connects grocery stores with non-profits and non-profits with hungry people.

Microsoft overtakes Amazon as second most valuable US company

Apple Inc tops the list at over $1 trillion after crossing that threshold in September. Microsoft’s market capitalisation was Wall Street’s highest in late 1998 through early 2000 before the dot-com bubble burst.

How the World Wide Web led to an internet revolution

As the world thanks Tim Berners-Lee for making the web public some 25 years ago, here's a look at a few key developments that resulted in how we use the internet today.

WWWorries? Inventor of Web laments coming-of-age woes

Speaking to reporters at CERN, the physics research center outside Geneva where he invented the web, Berners-Lee said users of the web had found it “not so pretty” recently.

Web inventor Berners-Lee launches plan to stop internet abuse

Credited with laying the groundwork for the web – the universe of multimedia webpages accessible via the internet – in 1989, the computer scientist has since last year been developing the so-called Contract for the Web.

Iran says exercising restraint despite 'unacceptable' US sanctions

Qatar is trying to "defuse escalating tensions" across the Persian Gulf, Al Jazeera reports amid allegations of oil tanker sabotage, a drone attack by Yemen's Iranian-allied rebels and deployment of US warships and bombers to the region.

Hong Kong Protests: Protest leaders reject Lam's offer for dialogue

Protest leaders in Hong Kong have rejected an inquiry into police violence during weeks of anti-Beijing rallies. They say the investigation has no independence and lacks credibility. And as Liz Maddock reports, they've pledged to continue a peaceful path...

Money Talks: Japan’s latest J-Pop band “Virtual Currency Girls”

At the start of this century, almost any company that added .com to its name saw its stock surge. Now rebranding yourself as a 'Bitcoin' or 'blockchain' firm is having the same effect. But when a Japanese girl band does the same, you know that something i...

Europe Wildfires: Portugal battles fires as heatwave continues

The heatwave sweeping through Europe has claimed more victims. Officials in Spain have confirmed that two more people have died in record high temperatures. The heatwave is beginning to ease, but as Ruby Zaman reports, its effects across Europe will be fe...