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An Austrian Airlines plane had to return two hours into a flight from Vienna to New York — after five of eight toilets broke down. Some 300 people were on board Monday’s Boeing 777 flight, which was to set to last eight hours. The crew decided to turn around after …

China’s auto market, the world’s largest, is accelerating toward an electric future – leaving established global brands stuck in the slow lane. When auto executives convene in Shanghai for the auto show starting Tuesday, they will return to a sharply different market from the one they left in 2021 when …

The Vietnam government issued a decree on Tuesday prohibiting sale of personal data of any kind. All personal data is to be protected, secured and stored only for time frames appropriate for the purpose of acquisition. Owners of the data must be informed that it is being processed. Any organization …

A group of Indonesian fishermen are recovering after being shipwrecked on a coral atoll off Australia’s west coast for six days without food or supplies, authorities said Wednesday. Ten men washed up on Bedwell Island, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) west of the resort town Broome, after their boat was …

Netflix on Tuesday said that its number of subscribers hit a record high 232.5 million in the first quarter of the year and that its nascent ad-supported tier was faring well. The streaming television giant reported a quarterly profit of $1.3 billion, in line with expectations, but said it had …

An investigation was under way Wednesday after a fire ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing, killing 21 people, state media reported. Emergency response teams first received word just before 1 pm (0500 GMT) Tuesday that a fire had broken out at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital in the capital …

The fresh Covid-19 outbreak in Hanoi means people using public transport and working at supermarkets, cinemas and bars must wear masks, authorities have mandated. In an order Tuesday night, the city People’s Committee said everyone aboard public transport vehicles, including passengers, drivers and other staff, must be masked. So should …

Twenty-one people were killed after a fire broke out in the east wing of the inpatient department of a hospital in China’s capital Beijing, the Beijing Daily reported on Tuesday. The fire broke out at around 12:57 p.m.(0457 GMT) and was extinguished at around 13:33 p.m. after an emergency team …

As he crosses the mud houses and wheat fields around his village to catch a train to distant Mumbai, Sujeet Kumar says he is thinking about the better life that awaits him in India’s city of dreams. The 21-year-old from Jaunpur district, in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, …

The Hanoi health department on Monday said the highly contagious Omicron variant XBB.1.9.1 had been detected among Covid-19 test samples in Nam Tu Liem District. Vu Cao Cuong, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Health, said the number of Covid cases had increased recently, but there has not been …