Microsoft’s Bing Briefly Blocked ‘Tank Man’ on Tiananmen Anniversary
Users outside China said the site had failed to call up videos and images of the iconic figure from the 1989 crackdown.
G7 Finance Leaders Reach Global Tax Rate Deal
Officials from the Group of 7 countries agreed on Saturday to back a new global tax rate of at least 15 percent, which companies would have to pay regardless of where their headquarters are based.
Amsterdam Works to Shore Up Its Crumbling Canals and Bridges
For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.
Why A.I. Should Be Afraid of Us
Because benevolent bots are suckers. Plus, racism in medical journals, the sperm-count “crisis” and more in the Friday edition of the Science Times newsletter.
After Kamloops Discovery, Indigenous Music Summit Refocuses
An international gathering of Indigenous musicians has revised its program in the aftermath of the grim discovery at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Global Finance Leaders Start Talks for Tax Overhaul
The overhaul under discussion includes a global minimum tax that companies would pay regardless of where they locate their headquarters.
Teens Are Rarely Hospitalized With Covid, but Cases Can Be Severe
Adolescents were hospitalized with Covid three times as often as with flu, researchers reported. Nearly one-third wound up in I.C.U.s.
Cardinal Offers Resignation Over Church Sexual Abuse
Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a leading figure in Germany’s Roman Catholic Church, said on Friday that he had offered his resignation to share in taking collective responsibility for sexual abuses by priests.