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”

New Bridge Set to Open in Genoa, Italy, 2 Years After Collapse That Killed 43

New Bridge Set to Open in Genoa, Italy, 2 Years After Collapse That Killed 43

With a rainbow as a backdrop, Italy’s president inaugurated a replacement bridge Monday in Genoa, but families of those killed...

Coronavirus Surges Taxing Europe, Prompting Fears of Social Unrest 

Coronavirus Surges Taxing Europe, Prompting Fears of Social Unrest 

European governments are scrambling to shape radical plans to cope with a second wave of coronavirus contagion, expected to unfold...

Norway Bans Large Cruise Ships After Recent Coronavirus Outbreak

Norway Bans Large Cruise Ships After Recent Coronavirus Outbreak

Norway says it will stop all cruise ships with more than 100 people on board from disembarking at Norwegian ports...

Trump Gives Microsoft 45 Days to Seal TikTok Deal

Trump Gives Microsoft 45 Days to Seal TikTok Deal

The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok “is going to be out of business in the United States” on September 15,...

Europe Battles Coronavirus Along With Hot, Dry Weather  

Europe Battles Coronavirus Along With Hot, Dry Weather  

Much of Europe is again sweltering under soaring temperatures — and struggling with extreme dryness and forest fires. Summer heatwaves...

Northern Ireland Politician, Peace Nobelist John Hume Dies at 83

Northern Ireland Politician, Peace Nobelist John Hume Dies at 83

Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume has died at 83, his family said Monday.Hume is best known...

Notre Dame Cathedral’s Organ Getting 4-Year-Long Cleaning

Notre Dame Cathedral’s Organ Getting 4-Year-Long Cleaning

Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year’s...

Outbreak Hits Norway Cruise Ship, Could Spread Along Coast

Outbreak Hits Norway Cruise Ship, Could Spread Along Coast

A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on...

Fires Continue to Burn in Eastern Italian Region of Abruzzo

Fires Continue to Burn in Eastern Italian Region of Abruzzo

Italian Firefighters, civil protection volunteers, and Alpine troops are working around the clock in trying to put out the fires that have engulfed the...

Microsoft, TikTok to Continue Talks; Trump Gives App’s Chinese Owner 45 Days to Reach Deal to Sell

Microsoft, TikTok to Continue Talks; Trump Gives App’s Chinese Owner 45 Days to Reach Deal to Sell

Microsoft Corp said Sunday it would continue talks to acquire popular short-video app TikTok from Chinese internet giant ByteDance. Meanwhile,...

Genoa’s New Bridge Puts Spotlight on How Italy Can Manage Recovery

Genoa’s New Bridge Puts Spotlight on How Italy Can Manage Recovery

Just two years after part of Genoa’s Morandi bridge collapsed killing 43 people, a new structure opens in its place...

Protests Spread Across Russia in Support of Jailed Khabarovsk Former Governor

Protests Spread Across Russia in Support of Jailed Khabarovsk Former Governor

Protesters took to the street in cities across Russia on Saturday in support of jailed Khabarovsk former governor Sergei Furgal.Russian...

Spain, Britain at COVID-19 Loggerheads

Spain, Britain at COVID-19 Loggerheads

A former Spanish prime minister once described the rock of Gibraltar, which Spain ceded to Britain in 1713, as a...

Anti-Kremlin Protest in Russia’s Far East Attracts Thousands for a Fourth Weekend

Anti-Kremlin Protest in Russia’s Far East Attracts Thousands for a Fourth Weekend

Thousands of people marched in the Russian far eastern city of Khabarovsk on Saturday for a fourth consecutive weekend in...

Two-Thirds of UK Firms ‘Fully Operational’ After COVID, Survey Says

Two-Thirds of UK Firms ‘Fully Operational’ After COVID, Survey Says

Two thirds of British businesses say they are now “fully operational” after the coronavirus lockdown, up from half in June,...

Germany Dissolves Elite Army Unit Over Far-right Activity

Germany Dissolves Elite Army Unit Over Far-right Activity

Germany’s defense ministry officially disbanded a company of its Special Forces Command (KSK) on Saturday, following reports that it had...

Facebook Bows to Brazil Judge, Blocks 12 Accounts Worldwide

Facebook Bows to Brazil Judge, Blocks 12 Accounts Worldwide

Facebook announced Saturday that it had obeyed a Brazilian judge’s order for a worldwide block on the accounts of 12...

Index Resignations ‘Blow to Media Freedom’ in Hungary

Index Resignations ‘Blow to Media Freedom’ in Hungary

Working as a reporter and deputy editor for the Hungarian publication Index was a pinnacle in Szabolcs Panyi’s career as...

Trump Sets Clock Ticking for TikTok

Trump Sets Clock Ticking for TikTok

President Donald Trump went to one of his private golf courses Saturday in Virginia after threatening to halt operations in...

Thousands March in Berlin Against Coronavirus Curbs

Thousands March in Berlin Against Coronavirus Curbs

Thousands marched in Berlin on Saturday to protest against measures imposed in Germany to stem the coronavirus pandemic, saying they...

Protests Continue in Khabarovsk, Russia, Against Arrest and Replacement of Popular Regional Governor 

Protests Continue in Khabarovsk, Russia, Against Arrest and Replacement of Popular Regional Governor 

Protesters took to the streets of the Russian city of Khabarovsk for the fourth straight weekend on Saturday, angered by...

Trump To Ban TikTok

Trump To Ban TikTok

President Donald Trump says he intends to ban the operation of TikTok in the U.S.Trump said Friday he could take...