MERSING: Four Indonesian crewmen made the tough decision to abandon ship after an engine failure caused their vessel to drift at sea for days. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Mersing zone director Maritime Commander Suhaizan Saadin said their vessel KLM Jaya Makmur 88 began experiencing failure in the main engine …

(Reuters) – A scientist at Harvard used Google’s cloud platform to clone a supercomputer for a heart disease study, in a novel move that other researchers could follow to get around a shortage of powerful computing resources and speed up their work. The study simulated a therapy that aims to …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sarina Wiegman praised the ruthlessness of her England team after they beat Australia in front of a large, and sometimes hostile, crowd to reach the Women’s World Cup final for the first time on Wednesday. The 53-year-old, who will be the first coach to lead two different …

DUNGENESS, England (Reuters) – Dozens of men, women and children arrived on a shingle beach on the southern coast of England on Wednesday, tired but relieved to be brought ashore by a large orange lifeboat after making the risky sea crossing from France in rubber dinghies. They are the latest …

CAIRO (Reuters) – For Egyptians grown used to a decade of reliable power supplies and boasts of vast investments in generation, a wave of rolling blackouts came as a shock – shaking faith in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s record months before an election. Along with record inflation and a sharp …

LONDON (Reuters) – Payments giant PayPal will stop allowing UK customers to buy cryptocurrencies through its platform from October as it works to comply with new rules on crypto promotions. Britain’s financial regulator is due to bring in tougher rules to limit how crypto is advertised to British consumers, including …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia coach Tony Gustavsson was left to wonder what might have been after the Matildas were dumped out of the Women’s World Cup semi-finals 3-1 by European champions England on Wednesday. Goals from Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo cancelled out a stunning strike from talismanic …

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – There is no contradiction between defending an ecological transition and new oil exploration fronts, the chief of staff for Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday, as state-run giant Petrobras seeks clearance to drill a well at the mouth of the Amazon River. …

WALL Street was set to open subdued on Wednesday ahead of minutes of the Federal Reserve’s July policy meeting that could offer cues on the bank’s interest rate path, while shares of Target jumped on upbeat quarterly profit. Equities have been going through a rough patch in August, with the …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Russia’s raid on a ship just off Turkey’s coast brings the fallout from the Ukraine war to another NATO frontier and raises the stakes as Ankara seeks to coax Moscow back to a grain-export deal that would restore some calm to the Black Sea. Armed marines raided …