Amid tensions between the US and China, ambassador Qin Gang said that the US shouldn't go by the "cold war playbook, travestied from 007 movies" and it should just be left to Hollywood.

US shouldn't use cold war playbook like James Bond 007 movies: Chinese ambassador

After Taiwan's defence minister said China is ready to invade Taiwan, the Chinese Air Force has reportedly parked the new J-16D fighter jet at an eastern airbase near Taiwan.

Satellite image shows China’s new fighter jet deployed near Taiwan

Amid threat of Chinese warplanes repeatedly entering Taiwan's airspace, the country's defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng declared that China can mount a "full scale" invasion by 2025.

China has ability to mount 'full scale' invasion by 2025, says Taiwan's defence minister

Facebook said on Tuesday that the major outage of its main social media app along with WhatsApp and Instagram was caused due to configuration changes as Zuckerberg apologised for the outage.

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