Hong Kong stocks fell Thursday as investors took a breather following a healthy three-day rally, with tech firms hurt after Joe Biden's nominee as commerce secretary indicated she would not remove telecoms giant Huawei from a US trade blacklist.

Bill Gates set out to heal the world. His Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen bought sports teams. Ted Turner raced yachts. And Donald Trump went into politics.

Indian celebrities on Wednesday hit back at pop superstar Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg for making social media comments about mass farmers' protests.

Britain's biggest businesses have very few ethnic minorities in the boardroom -- and no black top executives, according to research published Wednesday.

Gizem Baburhan stepped into a tiny house on wheels she rented in the Aegean vineyards and saw the future of Turkey's coronavirus-ravaged tourism industry.

US Secretary Treasury Janet Yellen has requested a meeting with financial regulatory authorities to discuss recent market volatility following a social-media-fueled buying frenzy over shares in video game store GameStop and other stocks shorted by hedge funds.

Yellen called for the meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Reserve and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Treasury said in a statement late Tuesday.

Iran's conservative-dominated parliament on Tuesday rejected a budget bill for the next Iranian year put forward by the administration of the moderate President Hassan Rouhani, state television reported.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba saw profits jump over the last three months of 2020 as economic activity returned in China and online spending continued apace.

The eurozone economy shrank less than expected in 2020 given the devastating consequences of the covid-19 pandemic, official data showed on Tuesday.

BP reported Tuesday that it tumbled into a massive $20.3-billion (16.8-billion- euro) net loss last year, despite a slender fourth-quarter profit, as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged global energy demand.

The enormous loss contrasted sharply with net profit of $4.0 billion in 2019, the British energy major said, adding that the  oil sector had been "hit hard" by the Covid-19 crisis.