Bloomberg The World Economic Forum (WEF) is looking at sites in countries less affected by Covid-19 than Switzerland to replace Lucerne for the meeting scheduled to take place next May, according to the Schweiz am Wochenende newspaper. The Swiss newspaper, which didn’t say the source of the information, also published an interview with WEF founder, Klaus Schwab, who said the ...

Bloomberg The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed a proposal to allow in-flight voice calls via mobile phones, ending its examination of an idea that evoked fears of air rage from passengers trapped beside jabbering seat mates. The idea drew “strong opposition” from pilots and flight attendants, the agency said in a four-paragraph order. The FCC in 2013 proposed allowing ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson defended his decision to put most of England into the highest levels of pandemic restrictions even as the rate of infection across the UK fell to its lowest level since mid-August. Leading members of Johnson’s Conservative Party have said the government’s new three-tier system to contain the coronavirus when the national lockdown ends next week is too ...