In what is being seen as the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington, Microsoft Corp has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails.   By preventing Microsoft from notifying...

The Communist party of China has decreed that teeing off is not a crime allowing the lifting of millions of fairway fanatics out of the rough.   Golf enjoyed a renaissance during the 80s and 90s only to be outlawed for the party’s 85 million members in 2015 as a result of president Xi...

The coming month will see the Convention rules being implicated to observe nuclear security within the countries who have adopted it. From next month onwards over hundred companies will have to maintain “higher standards on the protection of nuclear facilities and materials”, reported the United...

Late on Saturday, Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to establish a joint investment fund with a registered capital of 60 billion Saudi riyals ($ 16 billion). In addition, the countries agreed to establish a free trade zone in the Sinai Peninsula. The signing of the documents, held in the...

As operations go on to track down militants who have fought with or take direction from leaders in Syria, Belgian police detained two key suspects on Friday in the Islamic State attacks on Paris and Brussels.   Prosecutors said that a Belgian, Mohamed Abrini, who is believed to have helped...

Experts of IHS Global Insight estimate the probability of Brexit at the June referendum vote at 35-40%. The consequences of a possible exit from the EU for Britain, according to IHS analysts, depend on result of the negotiations between the UK and the EU, including on the trade agreement and the...

In an apparent response to Islamic State’s loss of ground elsewhere in Syria, the group’s fighters launched attacks on government-held areas near Damascus overnight on Tuesday.   The Tishrin power station 50 km (30 miles) northeast of the capital was attacked by the Islamic State, the group...

Publication of an investigation on offshore companies in Panama has caused the first reaction of governments and the tax bodies. Tax authorities in Australia began checking more than 800 of its citizens, mentioned in the "Panamanian files." French President Francois Hollande called the information...

The largest blue diamond ever put up for auction will be sold on May 18 at Christie's Geneva auction. According to preliminary estimates, the lot costs $ 38 - $ 45 million, Bloomberg reports. The gemstone weighing 14.62 carats is named "Oppenheimer Blue" after its former owner, Philip Oppenheimer....