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More Starke, Marshall County Residents Test Positive for COVID-19

The daily tally is a continuation of an upward trend in cases in Lewis County and beyond. Of the 362 ventilators available in area hospitals, 125 were in use,...

Tesco says sales jump in virus lockdown

Shopping frequency fell by 32% in the 13 weeks to 30 May, Tesco said on Friday , but basket size jumped by 64%. "In the past few months it has managed to gre...

Around 50,000 An Post currency cards suspended

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Friday that Wirecard Card Solutions Limited must immediately halt all regulated activities and is forbidden fro...

Oil prices crawl up on demand recovery, tempered by virus outbreaks

The country's oil import spending declined to just $ 2.3 billion in May, from $ 9.5 billion in May previous year. In fact, India's crude oil import in May fell ...

Global covid-19 cases hit 1 crore as pandemic gains momentum

The data updated at 8 am showed 19,906 new cases, while 410 persons succumbed to the disease in the last 24 hours. Over 3 lakh patients have recovered, whil...

Bentley Mulsanne Bows Out With Bespoke 6.75 Edition Model

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the usual end-of-production celebrations were limited to the craftsman posing for socially-distanced photographs with the final ca...

Town centre McDonald's re-opens today

The McMuffins are being served at McDonalds in Nutgrove Shopping Centre, Kylemore Road, Artane Castle Shopping Centre, Coolock Retail Park and Belgard Road. A l...

Aston Martin taps investors for more money

Aston Martin Lagonda is going to issue new shares to raise around £260 million ($320 million), around 20 percent of its existing equity capital as part of its ...

Walmart faces criticism for 'All Lives Matter' and 'Irish Lives Matter' clothing

As of Thursday morning, the product had been removed from Walmart's Canadian website but was still available in the US. FN has reached out to Walmart for ...

Administration beckons for shopping centre owner Intu

Earlier this week, KPMG had been appointed to contingency plan for administration. In a statement on Friday, the company said: "Since that update, discussions...

Tesla's New Autopilot Feature Set Confuses Burger King Signs With Stop Signs

In the footage, the driver narrates as the auto senses the Burger King sign but reacts as if it's pulling up to a stop sign. Burger King figured out that Tes...

American Airlines will stop blocking seats on July 1

The American Airlines' posture follows a similar policy change carried out by Spirit and United Airlines . "American will continue to notify customers and ...

European Union narrows down border list, United States unlikely to make the cut

The region is seeking to gradually revive its economy ahead of the summer travel season by removing the travel ban on nations with infection rates similar to or...

Ford reveals 202 F-150

Like every F-150 since the 2015 model year, the 2021 truck is also made from military-grade aluminum alloy. The brand new F-150 can have an non-compulsory hands...

Huawei loses out in Singapore 5G bid

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. ( Singtel ) chose Ericsson, while a joint venture between StarHub and M1 chose Nokia as vendors after the two local telcos w...

Kia shows off clutch-by-wire technology for mild-hybrid cars

The tech allows the use of cutting-edge fuel-savers with a conventional manual transmissions. And an iMT-equipped Kia can take over control of the driveline e...

Coca Cola Pauses Social Media Advertising For At Least 30 Days

The news comes in after a flurry of companies, in an attempt to protest racism on social media, especially Facebook, have made a decision to stop of pause adver...

Wirecard files for insolvency in Germany

Separately, the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Friday it had imposed a number of requirements on Wirecard , including that it must ...

Oz tech titans to build world's tallest 'hybrid timber' tower in Sydney

The innovative construction makes for considerable environmental benefits. "The NSW Tech Central Precinct and our new building are precisely the sort of smart...

United Kingdom given just six weeks to negotiate post-Brexit deal with Japan

Any deal is expected to be based on a broad EU-Japan trade agreement that came into effect previous year, but London has signaled it hopes to win the reduction ...

Coronavirus testing blitz launched in Broadmeadows

The lockdown in Victoria was being lifted more slowly, but authorities there believe the increase in new cases stemmed from family get-togethers attended by peo...

WestJet Permanent Layoffs Include Over 270 Employees In New Brunswick

Employees at the Thunder Bay International Airport will be laid-off as a result of the changes announced today. WestJet has continued to operate service to al...

Australia caps toilet roll sales after panic-buying

Australia's supermarket chains on Friday reintroduced purchase limits on toilet paper and other household items as a spike in coronavirus cases in the state...

Google says it will pay publishers for news content

Google didn't reveal any partnerships with publishers in the USA, where News Corp, whose holdings include Dow Jones (publisher of the Wall Street Journal) an...

Slack lets up to 20 companies chat in the same channel

The company's original goal was to replace email services. According to Slack's press release, the feature is created to replace email and can be a more produ...

Virgin Australia to be sold to Bain Capital

Administrators for Virgin Australia said Friday they had accepted a bid from USA private equity giant Bain Capital to buy the pandemic-felled airline. In a st...

Coronavirus stimulus checks sent to 1 million dead Americans, totaling $1.4 billion

The IRS has since decided that dead people shouldn't get payments and has said the 1.1 million such payments should be returned - though it "does not now plan...

Wall Street ends choppy session higher

EDT, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 46.53 points, or 0.18%, to 25,492.47, the S&P 500 gained 6 points, or 0.20%, to 3,056.33 and the Nasdaq Composit...

BYJU'S raises funds from tech investment firm BOND

The fresh investment is the first in India by the U.S. firm that is already backing tech companies including Spotify, Square, and Uber, among others. Mary Meek...

Amazon has reportedly acquired autonomous auto start-up Zoox

Zoox will continue to exist as a standalone business according to Amazon's announcement, with current CEO Aicha Evans continuing in her role, as well as CTO an...