Peter Hoskins,Business reporterand Lily Jamali,North America technology correspondent Watch: TikTok owner signs agreements to avoid US ban TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with US and global investors for the majority of its business in America, TikTok’s boss told employees on Thursday. Half of the joint venture will be owned by a group…
Novo Nordisk has struggled this past year, but its beaten-down valuation has made it a bargain buy today. Healthcare stocks haven’t gotten a lot of love from investors in recent years. While the market has been strong and the S&P 500 has rallied by 84% in the past five years, the Health Care Select Sector…
Koh Ewe,Singaporeand Hosu Lee,Seoul Getty Images President Lee suggested that national health insurance cover hair loss treatments South Korea’s well-coiffed president is on a mission to help the country’s balding residents. In his crosshairs: the national health insurance scheme, which he suggests should foot the bill for hair loss treatments. President Lee Jae Myung made…
BBC There is no official data of how many Ukrainian soldiers have died by suicide This article contains distressing details and references to suicide. Some of the names have been changed to protect identities. Kateryna cannot talk about her son, Orest, without tears. Her voice trembles with anger as she explains how she found out…
ROGER L. WOLLENBERG/UPI/Newscom/The Mega Agency; Mega Joran Van der Sloot, the man who murdered Natalee Holloway, reportedly attempted suicide in prison on Saturday, December 13. The convicted killer — who is currently serving his 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramírez — was reportedly found hanging from a…
Following the death of 2024 student uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi, widespread protests have erupted in Bangladesh on Friday. Amid the public outrage across Dhaka, many protestors vandalised the offices of leading Bangladeshi dailies and newspapers. A group of people set fire to The Daily Star newspaper office building, following the death of Sharif Osman…
Ilma HasanBBC Hindi, West Bengal Rubaiyat Biswas/BBC Sunali Khatun says the deportation tore her family apart “I was scared that my child’s nationality would change if he was born in Bangladesh,” says a heavily pregnant Sunali Khatun, 25, who returned to India earlier this month after being deported to the neighbouring country in June. Ms…
Updated on: Dec 19, 2025 01:47 am IST . Trump’s warning comes ahead of fresh talks expected in Miami, Florida on the weekend. US President Donald Trump on Thursday called on Ukraine to move “quickly” on a deal to end the war with Russia. Trump’s warning comes ahead of fresh talks expected in Miami, Florida…
Jessica Rawnsleyand Anbarasan Ethirajan,Global affairs correspondent Getty Images Violence has erupted in Bangladesh following the death of a prominent leader of the youth movement that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Sharif Osman Hadi was shot by masked attackers while leaving a mosque in Dhaka last week and died of his injuries on Thursday while…
Former NASCAR star Greg Biffle was among multiple people killed in a plane crash at Statesville Regional Airport in rural North Carolina, Gov. Josh Stein confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The official social media account for NASCAR wrote in an online post that Biffle’s wife Cristina, daughter Emma, son Ryder, and three others were also killed,…