By storms across central Chile are an estimated four million people without drinking water. Heavy rain has caused landslides and rivers to burst their banks. Certainly a person died and the world's largest copper mine had to cease production.
The G20 countries are considering taking action against tax havens that ignore international rules. That raised the finance ministers of the club of the world's major economies, after consultation around the IMF meetings in Washington.
One of the longest serving managers in the fast food industry, the president of McDonald's, retires. The 86-year-old Andrew McKenna was a quarter of a century in the government of the world's largest hamburger chain, with more than ten years as supervisory chairman (chairman).
A fifth of all adults in the world are seriously overweight in 2025. In a country like Britain or even a third obese, according to a study which published the medical journal The Lancet.
An Australian has ordered the world's first Tesla's newest model. The car, the Model 3, is booked from Thursday. Andrew Stephens waited 48 hours at a Tesla dealership in Sydney, writes The Guardian.
Sir Martin Sorrell did it again. The new remuneration package of 60 million British pounds for the 71-year-old advertising guru in the world's largest advertising company WPP light under fire. But will regain gloriously support.
What began with fifteen young people with graffiti spuiden their bile on the Syrian regime, and thus gave rise to a revolt, five years later become a small world and a massive humanitarian catastrophe, which can be felt in the Netherlands.
The world's largest producer of Samsonite luggage is on the verge of its position in the market to strengthen further with the acquisition of rival Tumi Holding, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Developers can from Monday at Microsoft enjoy a sample of Microsoft's virtual reality glasses HoloLens. Who has about 2700 euros, you can buy the glasses and gets him sent around March 30th.
Apple will launch the 4-inch iPhone and smaller iPad Pro on 21 March. That report the usually well-informed John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed and Jim Dalrymple of The Loop.
Spotify has made a deal with Google closed for the storage of a part of the company's data. Google is working with the world's largest music streamer good news. The company has been trying for years market share from Amazon to steal the cloud market.
The world's first bionic eye for the blind is in the Netherlands under the microscope. Bartiméus, famous Dutch institute for the visually impaired, launched this year scientific study of the 'retinal chip.
The virtual reality glasses that Google is working on, will be used without a computer or smartphone. That reports The Wall Street Journal, citing sources inside the tech giant.
The Groningen provider of social media content Crowdynews has picked up a second investment round of € 3.7 million. Early last year made it all € 2.5 million.
Users of the Facebook Android app can now visit the social platform via the anonymous Tor network. This makes it possible to visit without Facebook that the location is known.
Yasutaro Koide, born on March 13, 1903 and with its 112 years the oldest man in the world, is deceased this morning.
Children's hands are involved in the production of batteries for smartphones and laptops from known manufacturers. This was reported by Amnesty International on Tuesday. In small cobalt mines in the south of Congo work thousands of minors. Some of them are just seven years old.
62 wealthy jointly hold as much as the poorest half of the world's 3.6 billion people. Five years ago, still had 388 people as much as the poorest half. This is contained in a report by Oxfam, a non-governmental organization for development.
Samsung introduces a refrigerator with three built-in cameras. Every time the refrigerator door is closed, taken photographs of the interior. Using a smartphone to consumers, wherever they are, always see what's in the fridge. The whole family is so informed.
Lenovo launches world's thinnest combination of laptop and tablet. Thanks carbon Yoga 900S weighs less than one kilo, while it is 12.8 mm thick. However, the battery is powerful enough to watch 10.5 hours of video.
CES, the world's largest gadget trade show Wednesday in Las Vegas opens its doors, also offers much in audio innovation. Virtual reality makes different demands on the sound. That must come from all sides. The headphone also revamps. This will bring a taste of what CES.
(Reuters / BLOOMBERG)- The casinos in the Chinese gambling paradise Macao have continued to show a decline in sales last year.
Next year, approximately 3.2 billion people access to the Internet. That equates to 44 percent of the world population. More than two billion online using mobile devices.
For the first time a Dutch artist at number one in the list of most watched YouTube music videos in the Netherlands. Kenny B performs his hit Paris the list. Even if the music videos are disregarded Kenny sets the tone. The parody of his hit Paris ' Talk Amsterdam with me ' performs this list.
Parenthood makes people think about the future of our planet. Similarly, new father Mark Zuckerberg, who immediately made a great gesture by pledging 99 percent of his Facebook will power to spend on charity. But Zuckerberg is by far not the only generous tech billionaire...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most powerful person in the world. At least, according to the US business magazine Forbes . Putin is number one on the annual list of the world's most powerful people.
" Facebook wants to make a device that makes it possible to be anywhere you want, with who you want, regardless of geographic boundaries. " Mike Schroepfer, the technical boss of Facebook, hoping that such a teleporter within ten years is a fact.
The summit of Mount Everest for the first time in a long time achieved by anyone. A 33 -year-old Japanese man who made a desperate attempt to climb the mountain , Sunday return empty-handed to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. Since no other climbers have registered for the rest of the year , the top is first removed by anyone since 1974 .
