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Irish-Based Ryanair Pilots Vote To Strike

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In the commodities markets, benchmark USA crude jumped $1.96 to settle at $54.50 a barrel. "If President Trump goes ahead with the 10 percent tariffs on a...

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The escalating U.S. -China trade war drove much of the volatility across the region this week. Yuan traders are finally moving on from the 7-per-dollar comple...

Bayer shares soars on report of proposed US$8 bil Roundup settlement

Roundup lawsuits claim the popular glyphosate-based weed killer caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer. Feinberg is a veteran mediator who has worked o...

Burger King’s plant-based Whopper goes nationwide

And Gonzalez said if someone had told him it was a normal burger, he would have believed them. That fact makes the meatless Impossible Burger off-limits for...

Chinese Kids Forced to Work Overtime to Manufacture Amazon Echo Speakers

Interns are required to work 10 hours a day, and this includes two hours of overtime, in addition to working six days a week. What's even more shocking is that...

Walmart Removes Images of Violence in Stores After Shooting

Detractors panned the move as an empty gesture aimed a deflecting criticism rather than solving a problem. The most sweeping actions, such as increasing taxes o...

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A passenger aboard an EasyJet flight from Luton to Geneva has tweeted a picture of a woman who was asked to sit on a seat which has no back. EasyJet asked h...

Hot cross buns make a comeback at Coles

The sumptuous, cinnamony boys will now be available in a four-pack for a humble $3, 12 months a year baby. Supermarket giant Coles announced that shoppers can...

Ryanair pilots vote to strike - British Airline Pilots Association

Members of the BALPA pilots' union backed walkouts by a majority of 80% on a turnout of 72%. Ryanair called the travel disruptions "unnecessary" and said it h...

William Hill’s profit plummets by 47% for H1 due to FOBT restrictions

William Hill has taken the decision to close 700 shops in the United Kingdom as a direct result. In the UK, William Hill saw online revenues fall by 1 per ce...

Instagram bans marketing company tracking users' locations

Instagram Stories - meant to disappear after 24 hours unless saved by the user - were also scraped by the company if they had been posted and tagged from a sp...

Activision Blizzard Needs to Level Up After Q2

The target price by MKM Partners would suggest a potential downside of -1.22 % from the company's close price. Finally, Wedbush reiterated an outperform ratin...

Uber Shares Plunge after Reporting Widening Losses

Uber's stock had rallied earlier on Thursday, ending the day up more than 8%, after rival Lyft updated its forecast for the year to indicate faster than expe...

Broadcom to buy Symantec's enterprise unit for $10.7 bln in software push

The transaction, which is expected to close in the first quarter of Broadcom's fiscal year 2020, is subject to regulatory approvals in the U.S., European Union ...

AMD slings 64 cores at its 7nm Epyc Rome Zen 2 processors

GIGABYTE has now built on our extensive experience and expertise with the 1st Gen EPYC and is ready to deliver the next generation of AMD EPYC to our custom...

Frontier offers free flights to people with these two last names

The airline, which strives to be "America's Greenest Airline," says it operates the largest A320neo fleet in the USA, "one of the most fuel-efficient aircraft...

Canadian Tire finds "high-margin" acquisition at Party City

It called the party goods business a "high-margin retail category". "A press release said the iconic Canadian retailer's addition of the party supply company ...

Powercuts Across Large Parts Of London And South East

The hour-long outage on Friday evening left nearly 1 million homes without power while two of London's busiest train stations closed at rush-hour because of o...

Brexit fallout: UK's Johnson woos 'best and brightest' immigrants

Special advisers were emailed by Johnson's senior adviser Edward Lister on Thursday night, saying there was "some confusion about taking holiday" and told none ...

Australian economy may have reached gentle turning point - RBA

A worker pushing a trolley walks with pedestrians past the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) head office in central Sydney, Australia, March 7, 2017. With int...

Bayer to acquire BlueRock Therapeutics for $240M

While the biotech firm is looking to treat neurology, cardiology and immunology conditions, its most advanced program will begin testing on Parkinson's disease ...

Flight Attendant Charged After Passengers Report Intoxication

The passenger later told WISN-TV that March was specifically "stumbling and staggering back and forth and bumping into passengers as she was kind of zigzaggin...

'P is for protest': Hong Kong families join pro-democracy rally

Her comments came as she warned that the demonstrations now in their third month were causing economic chaos in the worldwide financial hub. The Hong Kong off...

Canadian economy shed 24200 jobs in July

That ranks it behind only Quebec City (2.8 per cent) for the lowest unemployment rate in Canada. "Clearly it's on the disappointing side of expectations", s...

Ryanair pilots in Ireland vote to strike over pay

The budget airline's Irish pilot union FORSA-IALPA is balloting members on possible strike action with results due by Friday. "Notwithstanding the result of t...

US wholesale prices rise just 0.2% in July

The index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services fell 0.1% in July, the first decrease since declining 0.1% in October 2015. In July, U.S. Se...

Gold Stays Above $1,500 on Economic News

Globally, spot gold was trading higher at Dollars 1,504 an ounce in NY amid ongoing trade tensions between US-China and slowing global economic outlook which ...

Broadcom to acquire Symantec’s enterprise security unit for $10.7 billion

The deal is subject to the usual regulatory approvals. Salesforce.com Inc. on Wednesday announced the $1.35 billion acquisition of ClickSoftware Technologies Lt...