The International Monetary Fund has extended a 280-million-dollar loan to oil-rich Equatorial Guinea

Despite protests by rights monitors who cited sweeping misrule and corruption in the central African country.…

Like many other nine-year-olds, Laurent Simons likes TV and his pet dog. But he also wants to make artificial organs and is about to get the qualifications to set him on his way

The Belgian boy will in December receive a degree in electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University…

The vocal critic that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has named to a lead role in his deadly drug war called on Friday

revamping the crackdown and ending its “senseless” killing. Opposition leader Leni Robredo has regularly attacked Duterte’s…

Chinese online retail titan Alibaba is hoping to raise up to $15 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, a report said Friday, which would be the city’s biggest listing for nine years

The share sale by Asia’s biggest company would also come as Hong Kong authorities battle months…

French cyclist Jacques Dupont, who won a gold medal at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, has died at the age of 91, his family announced on Monday

Dupont, who was born and died in the village of Lezat sur Leze in the south-west…

Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood

Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as Donald Trump’s America…

Tesla chief Elon Musk fired off a tweet on Friday indicating that he is disconnecting from Twitter, perhaps in favour of popular news and discussion platform Reddit

Kicking the Twitter habit would be a radical change for the colourful serial entrepreneur who is…

How Megan Caywood wants to bring a fintech mindset to Barclays

Megan Caywood, the thirty-something head of global digital strategy at Barclays, has been tasked with fundamentally…

I’d say you need another cup

It’s the late 1960s shop gets several new IBM 1403 Model N1 printers. The 1403 is…

Why Wells Fargo plans to pilot its own cryptocurrency

Wells Fargo & Company this week announced plans to pilot an internal settlement service using a…