SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft exceeded market forecasts with a good quarterly performance in cloud computing and software on Tuesday, continuing to benefit from the pandemic’s online moving of work, play, shopping, and learning. The US internet behemoth, which revealed last week a bombshell agreement to acquire gaming behemoth ActivisionContinue Reading

On the margins of a White House photo session, US President Joe Biden was overheard on a live microphone Monday calling a Fox News journalist a “dumb son of a bitch.” As journalists exited the room following the presentation, a Fox News reporter, a favourite of conservatives, inquired whether inflationContinue Reading

BRUXELLES (AFP) – On Wednesday, NATO and Russia confronted their stark divide over European security, with the allies challenging President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and join talks to reduce the threat of open conflict. Meeting with senior Kremlin envoys at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Western ambassadors saidContinue Reading