Bloomberg Hackers working for the Chinese government are trying to steal valuable research on coronavirus vaccines and treatments from US healthcare, pharmaceutical and research organisations, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warned. “China’s efforts to target these sectors pose a significant threat to our nation’s response to Covid-19,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security ...

Bloomberg Grigory Sverdlin has been doling out free meals from a night bus in Russia’s second-biggest city for the best part of the past two decades. Rarely has he seen so much demand as in the past few weeks. “In St. Petersburg we usually feed around 80 people a night at each of the four stops. Now there are 120-140 ...

Bloomberg Typhoon Vongfong, the Northern Hemisphere’s first named storm, was rapidly intensifying east of the Philippines, where it could clip parts of the island nation through Saturday, according to the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii. The storm, called Ambo in the Philippines, made landfall over San Policarpio town in Eastern Samar province in Visayas island on Thursday, the ...