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Fiat Chrysler has proposed a merger with Renault that would create the third biggest carmaker in the world behind Volkswagen and Toyota. The tie-up is aimed at saving billions of dollars for both companies as the car industry moves towards electric and autonomous vehicles. In a statement on Monday, Italian-American …

Since the dawn of time, mankind has always been afraid of evil and evil spirits. In all parts of the world, it is possible to come across rituals for keeping evil spirits away. The evil eye is believed to cause harm to someone or something. Supernatural harm may come in …

Malaysia’s last male Sumatran rhinoceros has died, an official says, dashing efforts to save the critically endangered species in the country. The rhino, named Tam, was about 30 years old and lived at a wildlife reserve in Sabah state on Borneo island since his capture in 2008, Christina Liew, state …

  Kevin Gameiro and Rodrigo scored as a valiant Valencia beat La Liga champions Barcelona to win the Copa del Rey. Ernesto Valverde’s men said in the build-up that a win would help ease some of the pain of the Champions League loss to Liverpool, but they were sub-par again, …

Three more climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to seven in a week – more than the total for the whole of last year. The three died of exhaustion while descending on Thursday. It comes amid traffic jams near the summit as record numbers make the …

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will be served a summons over the rape claims against him after lawyers for his accuser finally found his Italian address, according to reports. Ronaldo is accused of raping US woman Kathryn Mayorga in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, with police reopening the case …

British Airways will resume flights to Pakistan next week a decade after it suspended operations following a major hotel bombing, becoming the first Western airline to restart flights to the South Asian country. BA halted service to Pakistan in the wake of the 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing in the capital …

The Qatari president of French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser al-Khelaifi, is under formal investigation in France for alleged corruption related to Doha’s bid to host the athletics world championship, his lawyers said on Thursday. Two other sources said Khelaifi and a close associate were questioned by investigators in March …

Scientists have observed wild chimpanzees tucking into an unusual snack: tortoises, whose hard shells they crack against tree trunks before scooping out the meat. In a paper published Thursday by the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from Germany say the behavior they spotted dozens of times in a group of chimpanzees …

  Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams have been abandoned by Fifa. Fifa president Gianni Infantino said last year the expansion from 32 teams could be brought forward from 2026 to the 2022 tournament in Qatar. The change would have required Qatar to share hosting duties …

Malaria has been eliminated from Algeria and Argentina, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, an important milestone in fighting the mosquito-borne disease. WHO said there were now 38 countries and territories that have been declared free of the disease, which has been making a comeback globally. “Algeria has …

Two of the world’s largest video surveillance products manufacturers, China’s Hikvision and Dahua, are likely to follow Huawei onto the US blacklist, according to reports. The sanction may be announced, “in the coming weeks.” Washington is considering denying more Chinese companies a share of the US market. Limiting access to …

Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica. The long-held view has been that the world’s seas would rise by a maximum of just under a meter by 2100. This new study, based on expert opinions, projects that …

An Indian company had stored the data of 49 million Instagram users in an unguarded online database. Photo sharing site Instagram says it is trying to find out how contact details of almost 50 million of its users were stored online in an unguarded database. TechCrunch, which broke the story, …

The exhibition will span manga’s 200-year history, including a focus on influence over anime and video games. The world’s largest exhibition of manga outside of Japan is set to open at the British Museum in London later this week. The Japanese word used to refer to comics or cartoons, manga …

Energy company Exxon Mobil’s evacuation of its foreign staff from a major Iraqi oil field is “unacceptable and unjustified,” Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban said on Sunday. On Saturday, the US-based firm evacuated 50 US employees from Iraq and flew them to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates amid escalating …

The Eiffel Tower in Paris has been evacuated after a man was caught climbing up the 324 meters (1,063 ft) tall French landmark. Footage from the scene shows a man scaling the tower as tourists linger on grounds of the monument watching the scene unfold. A specialist rescue unit of …

Google has suspended Huawei’s Android license after the Trump administration blacklisted the Chinese phone maker over security concerns. The move will prevent Huawei devices from receiving key software and security updates, as well as potentially impact their ability to access popular Google apps like Maps and YouTube. Huawei is one …

Germany spent a record 23 billion euros ($25.65 billion) last year on helping to integrate more than one million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, a government document showed on Monday. That marks an increase of nearly 11 percent on the 20.8 billion euros that Germany spent …

Facebook has uncovered an extensive Israeli-run political influence campaign that has been ‘changing reality according to clients’ wishes’ targeting elections in African, Latin America and Asian nations for years. The social media platform has shut down 65 Facebook accounts, 161 pages, 23 groups, 12 events, and four Instagram accounts run …