Новости за 10.05.2021

Countries are levying “digital services taxes” on Big Tech companies. Some nations see the longer-term answer in a global agreement under negotiation.

A near miss from the reentry of a Chinese rocket caught the world’s attention about litter in orbit. That could make it easier to set a global norm on space behavior.

Najari Smith founded a co-op bike shop in Richmond, California, drawing youths to its Earn-a-Bike mechanics program and residents to community rides.

Satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX are sometimes mistaken for UFOs. The error is easily corrected, but astronomers see other problems with the “industrialization of space.” Light pollution can spoil a clear view of the night sky, even obscuring scientific data.

The initial shock of the pandemic led many insurers to avoid coverage in their new policies. But as businesses adjust to a new normal, insurers are now reevaluating ways to cover pandemic risks.

Violence is increasing in Afghanistan as the United States and NATO withdraw the last of their troops. While a temporary end-of-Ramadan truce is set to provide a few days of calm, long-term solutions remain out of reach for now.

Hundreds – mostly Palestinians – have been injured as tensions over longstanding property issues are boiling over into violent confrontations with police at the sacred compound that is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Judaism’s holiest site.

How did a single animal get one field name and an entirely different food name? To answer that question, our grammar columnist takes a page from “Ivanhoe.”

Good morning! Welcome to your Monday, May 10, 2021, sunrise briefing.Here are three news events - cyberattack on a U.S. pipeline, Scottish independence, and a Kabul bombing - from this past weekend (while you may have been celebrating Mother's Day, making pasta, and enjoying an offline life). Also, what to look for in the news this week.

DarkSide is among ransomware gangs that have "professionalized" a criminal industry that has cost Western nations billions of dollars in losses.

Saturday's attack on a girls' school in a Shiite neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan was among the worst the country has seen, leaving dozens dead.