May2017

News Hour: Researchers have developed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, which could be used to miniaturise many of the electronic components we use every day. The researchers, from the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick, have developed...

News Hour: Jia Yueting will step down as chief executive of Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp Beijing but will retain his position as chairman, with the company’s finance chief also to be replaced, according to...

News Hour: The global number of refugee and migrant children moving alone has reached a record high, increasing nearly five-fold since 2010, UNICEF said today in a new report. At least 300,000 unaccompanied and separated children...

News Hour: China will shut poultry markets in certain districts of two cities after H7N9 bird flu infections were detected, state media reported on Sunday, the latest incidents in this year’s more severe outbreak of the...

News Hour: The combined wealth of Nigeria’s five richest men – $29.9 billion – could end extreme poverty in that country according to a new report published by Oxfam today. The report, ‘Inequality in Nigeria,’ exposes...

News Hour: A slum area on Indonesia’s Java Island has become an unlikely tourist attraction, as well as a social media hit, after its homes were painted vivid colors to transform the district into what is...

News Hour: Juventus became the first team to win Serie A six times in a row when they beat Crotone 3-0 on Sunday to clinch the title with one game to spare. Mario Mandzukic, Paulo Dybala...

News Hour: Dressed in a tan knee-length dress, Melania shared a photo of herself with seven women dressed in abayas, the loose-fitting, full-length robes local women are required to wear in public in Saudi Arabia. She...

News Hour: VfB Stuttgart won promotion to the Bundesliga a year after their relegation following a 4-1 demolition of Wuerzburg on Sunday in the season finale. Stuttgart, Bundesliga champions in 2007, finished top of the second...

News Hour: Clint Eastwood does not rule out making another Western, he said on Saturday as he presented a 25th anniversary restored copy of “Unforgiven” at the Cannes Film Festival. “When I read the (“Unforgiven”) script...