Sweden, Finland and Estonia to look at new evidence on MS Estonia sinking in 1994 – ferry sank with the loss of 852 lives, in one of Europe's worst peacetime maritime disasters ~transport Article 276 words 7 votes
Nobel Prizes to go ahead amid pandemic – less razzmatazz, with this year's winners missing out on the swanky gala in Stockholm surrounded by royalty and Sweden's glitterati ~science Article 401 words 7 votes
Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions ~enviro climate change Article 679 words 8 votes
Taiwan to change passport, fed up with confusion with China ~news taiwan china Article 336 words 14 votes
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims ~enviro pollution.water Article 508 words 9 votes
US states seek $2.2 trillion from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma: filings ~health medicine Article 649 words 15 votes
Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout ~tech microsoft social media security.cyber Article 666 words 5 votes
Virginia touts nation's first contact tracing app with Apple-Google tech ~health Article 216 words 6 votes
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to eighteen months in prison for stealing self-driving trade secrets from Google before joining Uber ~transport Article 403 words 13 votes
European Union no closer to agreeing COVID economic recovery plan ~finance Article 629 words 11 votes
Mexican drug cartels are installing parasite antennas on existing cell towers, layering their criminal communications network on top of the official one and making life dangerous for technicians ~news mexico crime.organized Article 2797 words 11 votes
Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 5129 words 6 votes
Apple switches to its own chips for Mac computers as it adds features, privacy controls ~tech apple privacy Article 324 words 25 votes
Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says ~enviro pollution.air Article 280 words 12 votes
German payment service provider Wirecard says that 1.9 billion euros it had booked in its accounts likely never existed ~finance Article 8 votes
Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms ~enviro climate change Article 301 words 14 votes
Millions of abandoned US oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace ~enviro pollution climate change Article 2408 words 7 votes
Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide ~tech security.cyber Article 1017 words, published Jun 9 2020 5 votes
Greek demonstrators hurl firebombs towards US embassy in Athens ~news usa greece.athens crime Article 97 words, published Jun 3 2020 13 votes
Amazon may face EU antitrust charges over merchant data in coming weeks ~finance business Article 243 words 5 votes
Ford recalls 2.15 million US vehicles for potentially faulty door latches ~transport Article 176 words 4 votes
Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public ~news finland politics Article 98 words 12 votes
US Labor Department employment report shows unexpected improvement, but recovery could still take years ~finance economics Article 757 words 7 votes
Denmark should end all future oil and gas exploration in the North Sea – it hurts Denmark's ambition as a front-runner in the fight against climate change ~enviro climate change Article 321 words 6 votes
US taxpayers' virus relief went to firms that avoided US taxes ~finance business.small Article 1769 words 12 votes
More than forty diagnosed with COVID-19 after Frankfurt church service ~health Article 172 words 8 votes
IKEA's shopping malls arm Ingka Centres plans US entry in major play ~finance business Article 778 words 6 votes
Legal survey finds that US police are granted immunity at a high rate in use of force cases ~news usa Article 4263 words 12 votes
Norway will slash its oil output from June to December of 2020 – the first time in eighteen years it has joined other major producers to shore up prices ~finance business Article 122 words 9 votes
Russia's ambassador to Denmark has accused Washington of provoking confrontation in the Arctic in order to achieve dominance in the region ~news denmark russia usa Article 331 words 3 votes
In four US state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus -- 96% without symptoms ~health Article 1388 words 10 votes
Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, US states over contact tracing apps ~health Article 846 words 6 votes
Construction of the world's longest immersed tunnel connecting Denmark and Germany will begin in January next year ~engineering Article 212 words 6 votes
Indonesia bans traditional Ramadan exodus to rein in coronavirus ~humanities religion Article 94 words 6 votes
What life indoors looks like in Tokyo’s cramped homes ~design architecture Article 1087 words, published Apr 9 2020 8 votes
Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard politics Article 302 words 4 votes
Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken US aircraft carrier finds that about 60% of positive cases have not shown symptoms ~health Article 584 words 14 votes
Nearly half of global coal plants will be unprofitable this year ~enviro energy Article 445 words 10 votes
Sales of sex toys in Denmark have more than doubled after Danes were told to stay at home to limit the spread of the coronavirus ~life Article 329 words 20 votes
The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro ~transport Article 332 words 6 votes
Finland's center-left government gave its blessing to majority state-owned Fortum's strategy to cut emissions, but promised to push the company further ~enviro Article 352 words 4 votes