In one of the latest posts on the Android Developer Blog, Google has laid down ground rules for Android phone manufactures that allows them to have one or even two display cutouts in devices, but not more than that. Google has explained how developers should make changes to their app’s ...

Chinese human rights groups criticise internet company for reportedly designing software that would leave out blacklisted content Google is working on a mobile search app that would block certain search terms and allow it to reenter China after exiting eight years ago due to censorship and hacking, according to US ...

‘We have always said, always, that the door would remain open,’ says European affairs minister Nathalie Loiseau Britain could still cancel Brexit and stay in the European Union on the same terms it currently enjoys, the French government has said. Nathalie Loiseau, the country’s European affairs minister, said on Thursday ...

Iraq after Isis: In the fifth part of his latest series, Patrick Cockburn finds Iraqis are losing patience with endemic corruption “The people want an end to the parties,” chanted protesters, adapting a famous slogan of the Arab Spring, as they stormed the governor’s office and the international airport in ...

Senator Frances Black says the bill should show Ireland to be on the right side of ‘international law, human rights and justice’ Ireland has moved a step closer towards banning Israeli products which are produced in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill passed through ...

Critics dismiss project as PR campaign designed to support country’s contested policies The British government is paying M&C Saatchi to run a media campaign for the Tunisian government in an attempt to win voters over reforms that have sparked some of the largest protests in the north African state since ...

‘By 2030, the country’s water demand is projected to be twice the available supply’ India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history and around 600 million people face a severe water shortage, according to a government think tank. Approximately 200,000 people die every year due to inadequate ...

Populist parties’ ambitious fiscal plans have put them on a collision course with Brussels The majority of Italians want two things: new political leadership and the euro. The question is whether they can have both. The point about new leadership is uncontroversial. The country’s two ruling populist parties, the League ...

Coalition hopefuls Five Star Movement and League insist plans for massive financial relief in leaked document are no longer being considered Populist parties attempting to form a government in Italy have floated the idea of asking the European Central Bank (ECB) to write off €250bn (£218bn) of the country’s debt. ...

Iraqis voted on Saturday in their first parliamentary election since the defeat of Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate, a poll which could affect the balance of power in the Middle East. Here is how the new government will be formed, according to the Iraqi constitution, which specifies a 90-day process: *The ...