HONG KONG (Reuters) - An uneasy calm settled over Hong Kong on Saturday as the city prepared to go to the polls for local elections seen as a referendum on months of anti-government protests, after weeks of especially violent clashes between police and demonstrators. Police guard the perimeter of Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in…
Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Video The four party leaders are quizzed on Brexit in a Question Time special in Sheffield.Watch the full programme on iPlayer. 22 Nov 2019
GONE PHISHIN' — Skimmers host fraudulent third-party processor that looks just like the real thing. Dan Goodin - Nov 22, 2019 2:00 pm UTC Thieves have devised a new way to steal payment-card data from online shoppers—or at least it's new to the researcher who found it. Rather than infecting a merchant's checkout page with…
FILE PHOTO: With a portrait of the nation's first president George Washington serving as a backdrop, U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a ceremony to award the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Tom BrennerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Tuvalu is battling rising sea levels The tiny South Pacific nation of Tuvalu has rejected offers from Chinese firms to build artificial islands that would help it deal with rising sea levels, its foreign minister says. Simon Kofe told Reuters he saw the offers as an attempt to reduce…
Not quite — "I opened a major Apple manufacturing plant in Texas," Trump wrote Wednesday. Timothy B. Lee - Nov 21, 2019 5:06 am UTC Enlarge / Donald Trump speaks at Apple's Mac Pro manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas.MANDEL NGAN / GettyPresident Donald Trump toured Apple's Mac Pro manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, with CEO…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. coalition of refugee resettlement groups will file a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to block a new Trump administration policy that says refugees can only be resettled if state and local officials agree to accept them. FILE PHOTO: Border Patrol agents patrol the San Ysidro border crossing after the border…
Project Understood aims to improve voice recognition software for users with Down's syndrome. The programme is a partnership between the US technology company Google and the Canadian Down Syndrome Society. But anyone with Down's syndrome can take part in Project Understood.Video by Dan Lytwyn
Dispatches From Davy Jones' Locker — The pair of warships were sunk to block enemy naval access to Stockholm. Kiona N. Smith - Nov 20, 2019 11:45 am UTC Enlarge / These curved timbers, called knees, help support deck beams.Two 17th-century shipwrecks on the bottom of a busy Swedish shipping channel may be the sister…
HONG KONG (Reuters) - With all other escape routes blocked, some of the remaining protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university tried the unthinkable: they crawled through the sewers to get out. FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters look inside a sewer as they look for an escape route in an underground carpark at the Hong…
