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By Raymond Zhong BEIJING — Forget Google versus Facebook. Forget Uber versus Lyft. Forget Amazon versus … well, everybody. The technology world’s most bruising battle for supremacy is taking place in China. And it could point to...

Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko is the man who returned from the other side. At least, that was how it seemed for startled journalists who had gathered to hear about a “murder” probe. DW’s Nicholas Connolly was...

The City watchdog has ordered banks to do more to help the 19 million people who regularly use their overdrafts but has dismayed campaigners seeking a cap on the £2.3bn fees made when customers go into...

Roseanne Barr has blamed a tweet in which she compared an African American woman to an ape on the influence of sleeping pills. The TV star, who falsely said that Valerie Jarrett, former advisor to Barack Obama,...

Two employees of a northern California flight school have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a student pilot and trying to send him back to China, authorities said. Jonathan McConkey, general manager at IASCO Flight Training, and his...

A top aide to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was on his way to the US on Tuesday, Donald Trump said in a tweet. Another key aide to Kim arrived in Singapore on Monday night, a Japanese...

A hospital consultant who treated the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, for exposure to the military nerve agent novichok did not initially think the two would survive, he has revealed. Staff at Salisbury district hospital have...

Imagine that you’ve just bought a new GPS device for your car. The first time you use it, it works as expected. However, on the second journey, it takes you to an address a few blocks...

Colombians have failed to elect a president outright, setting the stage for a bitter runoff between two frontrunners from opposite ends of the political spectrum, while a peace process with leftist rebels hangs in the balance....

Anti-abortion campaigners have sidestepped Google’s ban on online adverts relating to the referendum in Ireland on Friday, so as to promote their message on popular websites. This May the tech company banned paid messages relating to the referendum from appearing...