The action announced on Monday is the second E.U. investigation against TikTok.

A recently-opened Apple Store in Shanghai’s Jing’an district in March. Apple said it removed WhatsApp and Threads, which are owned by Meta, from its app store in China.

The former headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of the video sharing app TikTok, in Beijing.

The ByteDance offices in Shanghai last year.

Siddharth Hariharoan tries to control a toy helicopter with his mind through the MindWave Mobile, a device by NeuroSky that reads brain waves.

Tesla reported a decline in sales this month that caught investors off guard.

Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, dancing onstage during a delivery event for Tesla’s China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai in 2020.

Elon Musk dancing in 2020 as his company, Tesla, unveiled the first cars made at its factory in Shanghai.

Jean-Yves Duclos, the procurement minister, blamed paper contracts for a potential multimillion-dollar fraud.

Charging up in Lake Park, Fla.

St. Petersburg this month. Russia is taking a systemic approach to change the way its domestic internet functions, according to civil society groups, researchers and companies that have been affected.

If the TikTok bill were to become law, it would likely deepen a cold war between the United States and China over the control of important technologies.

The Ferrari stolen from Gerhard Berger, now recovered.

The assembly line at a production facility for Nio, a maker of electric cars, in Hefei, China.

Self-service gasoline pumps in New Zealand didn’t work for part of Thursday.

After his previous two cars were stolen, Dennis Wilson installed theft prevention measures, including a steering wheel lock, on his newest vehicle.

Near the Piazza Maggiore and the tower of the Palazzo del Podestà, Bologna, Italy. Critics of the new speed limit say that traffic in the city has been slowing to a standstill since it started to be enforced.

The short features available on the app ReelShort range from romance to revenge to soap opera-esque.

Steven Valdez, 31, at his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The travel blogger was drugged and robbed last year in Medellín, Colombia, after meeting a date on Tinder.

Workplace wellness offerings such as apps, coaching and courses in time management or financial well-being did not have any positive effect, according to the study, while resilience and stress management trainings seemed to have a negative effect.

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, center, the national security adviser of the Emirates, oversees the artificial intelligence giant G42.

A statue of an imperial Chinese general stands watch near Heihe, on the Chinese side of the Amur River marking the border with Russia.

Leena Chauhan, 38, doing a meditation exercise guided by a pregnancy app at her home in Ahmedabad, India.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last year. Beginning in July, a Russian viral disinformation video campaign falsely accused him of having a substance abuse problem.

London’s black cabs, also known as hackney carriages, have traversed the capital in one form or another since 1634. When Uber came to the city more than a decade ago, the company rocked the industry.

The innards of a catalytic converter are coated in some of the rarest, most expensive metals on the planet.

The innards of a catalytic converter are coated in some of the rarest, most expensive metals on the planet.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, is building on the strengths of WhatsApp, nine years after acquiring it.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, has positioned WhatsApp as a “next chapter” for the social networking company.

Cars parked in Hobart, Australia.

ExxonMobil’s acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources creates a shale oil behemoth in the Permian Basin, the heart of the Texas and New Mexico oil patch.

“Ford’s ability to invest in the future isn’t just a talking point,” William Clay Ford Jr. said. “It is the absolute lifeblood of our company.

A morning commute earlier this year in central Stockholm. A new plan will allow only electric or natural gas-powered vehicles within a 20-block zone of the city.

Since Hamas launched a deadly cross-border attack into Israel over the weekend, violent videos and graphic images have flooded social media.

A seller offers merchandise while livestreaming at a store in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday. TikTok said it will halt its online retail operations in the country.

The Tesla automotive company manufacturing facility in Fremont, Calif.

A bicyclist test-riding the Audi e-bike at the mobility fair in Munich this month. The fair is a rebrand of what was Germany’s largest auto show.