China has made it a legal requirement for people signing up to new mobile phone and data plans to have their faces scanned, in a major growth of the surveillance state.  The new rules, outlined by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), came into effect on Sunday. They require new phone plan users […]

A Newsweek reporter who wrote that Donald Trump would spend Thanksgiving ‘tweeting, golfing, and more’ – hours before he touched down in a surprise visit to US troops in Afghanistan – has reportedly been fired.The visit was kept highly secret for the president’s safety, and his public schedule said he would be at his Mar-a-Lago […]

An Australian lecturer held hostage by the Taliban has said some of his guards were "lovely people" as he disclosed American special forces launched six unsuccessful rescue bids to free him. Timothy Weeks spent more than three years locked up, often in the dark and underground, after he and his colleague Kevin King were seized in […]

Is Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) a good equity to bet on right now? We like to check what the smart money thinks first before doing extensive research on a given stock. Although there have been several high profile failed hedge fund picks, the consensus picks among hedge fund investors have historically outperformed the market […]

It’s a bearish start to the month as Bitcoin tests support levels early. A move back through to $7,650 levels would signal a rebound…

It’s a particularly busy week ahead. The Pound will be in the grasps of the opinion polls, with risk appetite in the hands of the U.S and China and data.

Gambling revenue in the Chinese territory of Macau dropped 8.5% in November year on year, hit by lacklustre demand from high roller gamblers due to slowing economic growth amid the ongoing Sino-U.S. trade war and protests in neighbouring Hong Kong. November’s figure of 22.9 billion patacas ($2.8 billion), the second weakest figure this year, comes […]

Health secretary Matt Hancock was met with chants of ‘shame on you’ after criticising Jeremy Corbyn for his handling of antisemitism while on the hustings in Haverhill, West Suffolk on Friday.

Privates Chelsey Munday and Taylor Lewis passed out from the Infantry Training Centre (ITC) at Catterick, North Yorkshire, on Friday and will now join their respective regiments.

Every inch of Umar Kamani’s, 31, sprawling office is a different shade of garish, improbable pink. he rooms are pink, the retro-style telephones are very pink…