Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images To leave or not to leave? China, home to more than a billion consumers, is Apple’s second-largest market Every iPhone comes with a label which tells you it was designed in California. While the sleek rectangle that runs many of our lives is indeed designed in the United States,

Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-King BBC News, Washington DC and Boston BBC For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken

The S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.13%) is currently 14% below the record high it reached earlier this year. The decline started when President Donald Trump announced tariffs on goods from China, Canada, and Mexico in February, and the losses deepened as he added new duties on steel, aluminum, and auto imports. However, it was the 10%

Parham Ghobadi BBC Persian EPA As Iran and the United States hold a second round of high-stakes nuclear talks in Rome, hopes for de-escalation are being tempered by mounting military threats and mixed messages. US President Donald Trump reminds Tehran nearly every day of its options: a deal or war. He has previously said Israel

Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Watch: US senator Hollen says his ‘principle mission’ was to meet Ábrego García A Maryland man who the Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been moved to a new prison, US Senator Chris Van Hollen has said. The Democratic senator was speaking after returning from El Salvador where

Reuters Venezuelans who the Trump administration says are gang members have been deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century wartime law. A civil liberties group is suing the administration over planned deportations

A court in St. Petersburg sentenced 19-year-old Darya Kozyreva to two years and eight months in a penal colony on April 18 for allegedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by sticking a quote from a Ukrainian poem onto a monument. Kozyreva was arrested on Feb. 24, 2024, after she affixed a verse from Taras Shevchenko’s

The U.S. shared a draft concept for monitoring a potential ceasefire in Ukraine with European and Ukrainian officials in Paris, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on April 18, citing an unnamed Western official. The draft concept was reportedly shared during meetings in Paris on April 17, where European, Ukrainian, and U.S. officials gathered to

Trump wants to ‘take a pass’ if peace deal not done quickly US president Donald Trump has threatened to abandon the peace deal Washington is brokering with Russia and Ukraine if it is not done “quickly”. “Quickly, we want to get it done,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday. “Now, if for

Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Alamy Rakhaldas Banerjee is credited with making one of the most important discoveries in world history An Indian archaeologist, whose career was marked by brilliance and controversy, made one of the world’s greatest historical discoveries. Yet he remains largely forgotten today. In the early 1900s, Rakhaldas Banerjee (also spelled Banerji)