June2021

Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova has been released from police custody a day after she was arrested as part of an investigation into match-fixing at last year’s French Open. The 26-year-old, who is ranked 101st in...

The news that a panda at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo may be pregnant caused the share prices of nearby restaurant chains to temporarily surge on Friday. Fifteen-year-old giant panda Shin Shin is showing signs of pregnancy, the...

The Singapore Grand Prix has been called off this year and Formula 1 is assessing its options to replace the race, BBC Sport can reveal. F1 and the Singapore authorities agreed it will not be possible...

The EU has banned Belarusian planes from its skies or accessing its airports after the forced grounding of a Ryanair flight. European airlines are also being strongly encouraged to avoid flying over the ex-Soviet country, reports...

Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol...

Nigeria has announced the closure of popular social media site Twitter indefinitely. Nigerian authorities announced the decision on Friday (June 4th) after deleting a tweet from President Mohamed Buhari. The African country claims that this social...

Finance ministers from the G7 group of leading economies are confident of striking a deal on taxing multinational companies at their meeting in London. The agreement is expected to include a global minimum rate of corporation...

US airline United has announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airliners and “return supersonic speeds to aviation” in the year 2029. Supersonic passenger flights ended in 2003 when Air France and British Airways retired Concorde....

The World Bank has suspended its financial operations in Mali following the second coup in under a year in the West African nation, a spokesman in Bamako said on Friday. The Washington-based bank has “temporarily paused...

Argentina President Alberto Fernandez on Friday announced the South American country would begin producing the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine following a virtual meeting with his counterpart Vladimir Putin. “Next Sunday, an airplane will leave for...