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Business / World Business

Trade talks seen as unlikely to mend US-China divide 17 Sep 2019 - 07:34 pm
China's Communist Party is unlikely to budge on U.S. demands to fundamentally change the way it runs the economy, while the U.S. won't backtrack on labelling Chinese companies national security threats.
Nettles with regal roots hit the London catwalks 17 Sep 2019 - 06:37 pm
Fashion designers Vin + Omi pose for photograph during an interview with AFP at the Savoy Hotel in London on September 13, 2019.  AFP / Niklas Halle'n
Euro zone's 140 billion-euro interest windfall could allow spending boost 17 Sep 2019 - 06:37 pm
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Rich families pour wealth into $31 trillion ESG opportunity 16 Sep 2019 - 08:14 pm
Those born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s are set to take possession of as much as $30 trillion, according to research firm CB Insights. (Reuters/Eddie Keogh)
World must transform food production or face unrest, scientists warn 16 Sep 2019 - 07:47 pm
A farmer tends to a wheat farm in the El-Dakahlia governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, February 16, 2016. Reuters / Mohamed Abd El Ghany
After bankruptcy filing, Purdue Pharma may not be off hook 16 Sep 2019 - 06:36 pm

In this file photo taken on April 2, 2019 Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, Connecticut. AFP / Getty Images North America / Drew Angerer 

 
Biggest US steelmaker's profit wanes as auto demand weakens 16 Sep 2019 - 05:30 pm
In this file photo taken on April 12, 2006 an iron and steel worker makes a test on a casting at Ascometal factory in Fos-sur-Mer. AFP/Boris Horvat
Apple takes on EU’s Vestager in record $14 billion tax fight 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager
BNP Paribas apologizes for employee's post on Hong Kong protests 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
An employee walks behind the logo of BNP Paribas in a company's building in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, June 2, 2014. Reuters/Charles Platiau
Big global climate protests on Friday get union support 16 Sep 2019 - 05:05 pm
Demonstrators from the action group Sand im Getriebe (grit in the gears) calling for radical change in transport policy and in the motor industry have fixed a hammock and a banner reading
Blame game as wheels come off India's auto sector 15 Sep 2019 - 11:52 pm
In this photograph taken on September 11, 2019, a security guard patrols a holding area for new vehicles near a godown on the outskirts of Hyderabad. AFP / Noah Seelam
Growing up in a trade war: China is off limits for this startup 15 Sep 2019 - 07:26 pm
Ripcord Inc founder Alex Fielding
In aging Singapore, 65-year-olds learn how to program software 15 Sep 2019 - 07:26 pm
A man reads a newspaper as others play checkers in Singapore, January 16, 2018. Reuters/Calvin Wong
Idle mines portend dark days for top US coal region 15 Sep 2019 - 06:51 pm
Train cars loaded with coal pass California Zephyr as it rolls along the tracks during its daily 2438-mile trip to Emeryville, San Francisco from Chicago. Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
Victoria Beckham sees ‘women in motion’ for next spring at London Fashion 15 Sep 2019 - 06:50 pm
Models present creations from designer Victoria Beckham during a catwalk show for the Spring/Summer 2020 collection on the third day of London Fashion Week in London on September 15, 2019. AFP / Niklas Halle'n
Britain won't run out of toilet paper but fruit could be in short supply after Brexit 15 Sep 2019 - 05:40 pm
An employee stocks toilet paper along an aisle of an Asda store in Kendal, northwest England, Britain August 30, 2015. Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
As trade war deepens, a state-owned insurer in China helps soften the blow 15 Sep 2019 - 05:40 pm
Men sit at a booth of China Export and Credit Insurance Corp, known as Sinosure, at the regional trade fair East China Fair in Shanghai, March 1, 2013. Reuters
Gabon's sole train a lifeline for its people and economy 15 Sep 2019 - 04:54 pm
Then French President Francois Mitterrand (L) with Gabon President Omar Bongo inaugurates the second section of the Trans-Gabon Railway (Transgabonais) in Franceville on January 18, 1983. AFP / Daniel Janin