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The White House is formally accusing China of an attack on Microsoft that compromised tens of thousands of computers worldwide. The massive attack on Microsoft’s Exchange email server software allowed hackers to gain access to sensitive data belonging to businesses, local and state governments and some military contractors, reports NPR.... An unidentified American company was also hit with a demand for a ransom. Until now, the United States has not publicly blamed Beijing for the cyberattack, h

ITV has said there are “ no current plans ” to air another series of The X Factor – the talent show that launched the careers of chart-topping artists including One Direction, Little Mix, Olly Murs and Leona Lewis. The statement came following reports in The Sun that creator Simon Cowell has axed the television music competition programme after 17 years. The paper, which broke the story, said the programme was being shelved for at least five years and quoted a source as saying The X Factor was “

Clean and bright, they are stocked with fresh and affordable lunchboxes, steamed buns and stews in the winter.... Millions flock to the stores daily to pick up food, send packages and pay bills. Japan’s largest konbini chain, 7-Eleven, is also its most famous.... Selling 7-Eleven to Couche-Tard would be, for Japan, “ equivalent to Toyota becoming a foreign company, ” he said. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like....

NEW YORK--In this world, there's a book for everybody.... Take advantage of that sentiment during the holiday shopping season. Book sales have thrived during the pandemic after initial concerns that it might hurt the publishing business.... Come the holidays, some new nonfiction might hit your gifting sweet spots.A sampling: “ Dressing the Resistance: The Visual Language of Protest through History, ” by Camille Benda....

While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night.... It was one big shopping mall, I thought, with too many rules and not enough character.... But then, as I kept going back, I intentionally squashed my preconceptions and I started noticing other things....

Listen 8 min Share Comment on this story Comment 218 Add to your saved stories Save Henry Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at 100, was a Nobel Peace Prize winner who worked in two White House administrations and advised world leaders even deep into old age.... Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, because they wanted to use Kahn as a back door for diplomacy with China.... When Allende was eventually deposed in a military coup that led to his death and replaced by Gen....

Including international grosses, “ Old, ” which is based on the graphic novel “ Sandcastle, ” grossed$ 23 million worldwide in its first weekend.“ It’s an extraordinary debut, ” said Jim Orr, Universal’s head of distribution.... Night Shyamalan is an amazing filmmaker and one of the best in the industry.” Orr said he also expects “ Old ” will continue to play well in the coming weeks. Neither audiences nor critics reviewed the two new films especially well.... ” You’re going to have bigger wee

Tafari Campbell, who worked as a sous chef at the White House before later becoming the Obama family’s chef, has died in a paddleboarding accident on Martha’s Vineyard.... Massachusetts Environmental Police searching the area by boat located the remains, officials said. Former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama were not at their Martha’s Vineyard home at the time, police said.... “ In the years that followed, we got to know him as a warm, fun, extraordinarily kind person who

ROME — In the Roman neighborhood known as EUR, all the classic telltales of Rome drop away.... Mussolini had hoped it would stand as an example of an ideal city, with gardens and open spaces, and he commissioned some of the most acclaimed Italian architects and artists to remake a land used previously only by farmers and an abbey of cloistered monks.... EUR’s boundaries were marked off in a near-perfect pentagon....