Business

Economy and business news. Business is the practice of making one’s living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also “any activity or enterprise entered into for profit”

1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Shooting at UK Pub 

1 Dead, 3 Wounded in Shooting at UK Pub 

A Christmas Eve shooting at a pub in northwest England killed a young woman and wounded three men, police said...

Four Killed in Spain After Bus Plunges Into River 

Four Killed in Spain After Bus Plunges Into River 

Four people died after a bus plunged into a river overnight while crossing a bridge in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region,...

At Christmas, Pope Urges End to ‘Senseless’ Ukraine War 

At Christmas, Pope Urges End to ‘Senseless’ Ukraine War 

Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for an end to the “senseless” war in Ukraine, in his traditional Christmas message from...

Erdogan Aide Blames Paris Unrest After Shooting on PKK 

Erdogan Aide Blames Paris Unrest After Shooting on PKK 

A top aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday blamed street unrest that gripped Paris following the killing...

Putin Says West Aiming to ‘Tear Apart’ Russia 

Putin Says West Aiming to ‘Tear Apart’ Russia 

Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the West for trying to “tear apart” Russia, in extracts from an interview to be...

Duma Prepares Higher Taxation for Russians Who Left Country, Speaker Says

Duma Prepares Higher Taxation for Russians Who Left Country, Speaker Says

Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Duma, said the Russian lower house of parliament was preparing a law to introduce...

China’s Foreign Minister Signals Deeper Ties With Russia

China’s Foreign Minister Signals Deeper Ties With Russia

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi defended his country’s position on the war in Ukraine on Sunday and signaled that China...

Year in Tech: What Do Tech Layoffs Say About the Economy?

Year in Tech: What Do Tech Layoffs Say About the Economy?

The end of 2022 saw major layoffs at Twitter, Amazon, Salesforce and Snap. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and...

Zelenskyy: Ukraine Will Create Its Own Christmas Miracle

Zelenskyy: Ukraine Will Create Its Own Christmas Miracle

Ukrainians will create their own miracle this Christmas by showing they remain unbowed despite Russian attacks that have plunged millions...

Maxi Jazz, of UK Dance Music Band Faithless, Dies at 65

Maxi Jazz, of UK Dance Music Band Faithless, Dies at 65

Maxi Jazz, the lead singer of the British electronic band Faithless, has died at the age of 65, the group...

The Peculiar Russian Missile ‘Cemetery’ in Eastern Ukraine

The Peculiar Russian Missile ‘Cemetery’ in Eastern Ukraine

The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has a peculiar “cemetery,” one that recalls some of the worst damage done since...

Russian Shelling in Kherson Kills at Least 10, Injures Dozens

Russian Shelling in Kherson Kills at Least 10, Injures Dozens

At least 10 people were killed and 55 were injured by Russian shelling in the southern city of Kherson on...

22 Killed in Russian Nursing Home Fire, Electrical Problems Suspected

22 Killed in Russian Nursing Home Fire, Electrical Problems Suspected

A fire ripped through an old people’s home in Russia’s Siberia region, killing 22 people and investigators are eyeing whether...

France’s Kurds Protest after Paris Killings

France’s Kurds Protest after Paris Killings

Representatives of France’s Kurdish community gathered in central Paris Saturday for a demonstration to demand answers in the killing of...

Zelenskyy: Russia ‘Is Killing for the Sake of Intimidation and Pleasure’

Zelenskyy: Russia ‘Is Killing for the Sake of Intimidation and Pleasure’

Russia is “killing for the sake of intimidation and pleasure,” Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted on Telegram Saturday after a...

20 Die in Russian Nursing Home Fire

20 Die in Russian Nursing Home Fire

Russian officials say at least 20 people have died in a fire in a nursing home in the Siberian city...

Putin Tells Russian Defense Industry to Up Its Game

Putin Tells Russian Defense Industry to Up Its Game

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his country’s weapons producers to step up their game. As he toured the Tula...

‘Serpent’ Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj Arrives in France After Release

‘Serpent’ Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj Arrives in France After Release

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, arrived in France on Saturday after...

‘Armed with English’: Ukraine Soldiers Take Language Lessons

‘Armed with English’: Ukraine Soldiers Take Language Lessons

When Olena Chekryzhova followed in her grandmother’s footsteps and began teaching English, she never dreamed the job would lead to...

Doctors Using Virtual Reality to Relieve Patients’ Pain and More

Doctors Using Virtual Reality to Relieve Patients’ Pain and More

Virtual reality, an immersive technology embraced by gamers, has moved into medicine, where it is used for stress relief, physical...

Moldova Intel: Russia Could Invade Moldova 

Moldova Intel: Russia Could Invade Moldova 

Moldovan intelligence officials say Russian forces could launch a military offensive early next year in southern Ukraine in order to...

Spain: No Evidence of Criminal Misconduct in Migrant Deaths

Spain: No Evidence of Criminal Misconduct in Migrant Deaths

Spanish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into the deaths of more than 20 migrants last June at the border between...