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”

COVID-19 Diaries: After Pandemic, What Kind of World Will Emerge?

COVID-19 Diaries: After Pandemic, What Kind of World Will Emerge?

British people love to talk about the weather. Never more so than when they’re locked in their houses, it seems. With...

Polish Leader Insists on May Vote, Even if Delayed Slightly 

Polish Leader Insists on May Vote, Even if Delayed Slightly 

Poland’s prime minister said Wednesday that the presidential election must be held in May despite the coronavirus pandemic to meet...

Police File Reveals Suspicions of Blatter in FIFA TV Deal

Police File Reveals Suspicions of Blatter in FIFA TV Deal

Swiss investigators concluded Sepp Blatter knew that a World Cup broadcasting contract was breached illegally and that it would cost...

UK Leader Boris Johnson, Fiancee Announce Birth of Baby Boy

UK Leader Boris Johnson, Fiancee Announce Birth of Baby Boy

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds announced the birth of a son on Wednesday, just two...

EU Leaders Remain at Loggerheads Over Economic Solidarity

EU Leaders Remain at Loggerheads Over Economic Solidarity

The coronavirus crisis risks becoming an existential crisis for the European Union, say diplomats and analysts, as the EU struggles to coordinate...

UK Mourns Front-Line Workers Who Have Died from Coronavirus

UK Mourns Front-Line Workers Who Have Died from Coronavirus

The U.K. held a minute’s silence Tuesday for all front-line workers who have died from the coronavirus, as official figures...

YouTube Expands Fact-Check Feature to US Video Searches During COVID-19 Pandemic

YouTube Expands Fact-Check Feature to US Video Searches During COVID-19 Pandemic

YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said on Tuesday it would start showing text and links from third-party...

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Communities in the United States and around the world are talking about when and how to ease lockdown measures as...

Greek Church Demands Government Ease Controls on Religious Services

Greek Church Demands Government Ease Controls on Religious Services

Ready or not, Greece is opening back up. But it is not happening all at once, as the government plans...

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to Coronavirus

Smartphone App Warns If You’ve Been Exposed to Coronavirus

The smartphone in your pocket may soon let you know if you’ve been exposed to COVID-19.As communities around the world...

Top German Health Experts Urge Public to ‘Stay Disciplined’

Top German Health Experts Urge Public to ‘Stay Disciplined’

Germany’s national public health institute is urging the public to “stay disciplined” as data regarding the COVID pandemic in the...

Austria to Ease Coronavirus Lockdown Friday 

Austria to Ease Coronavirus Lockdown Friday 

Austrian officials announced Tuesday the nation will lift lockdown measures effective Friday, May 1, making it among the first European...

Germany Hopes for Rain to Avoid 3rd Straight Summer Drought

Germany Hopes for Rain to Avoid 3rd Straight Summer Drought

Germany’s farmers, foresters, and firefighters are eagerly awaiting widespread rain forecast for later this week, as a warm, dry spring...

Smartphone App Sends Alert If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Smartphone App Sends Alert If You’ve Been Exposed to COVID-19

Communities in the United States and around the world are talking about when and how to ease lockdown measures as...

COVID Link Suspected in Children’s Inflammatory Disease

COVID Link Suspected in Children’s Inflammatory Disease

Doctors in Britain, Italy, Portugal and Spain are exploring a possible link between a severe inflammatory disease in children and the coronavirus. A growing number of children of various ages in several European countries have been...

Scientists at Oxford Take Early Lead in Race to Create Vaccine 

Scientists at Oxford Take Early Lead in Race to Create Vaccine 

Scientists at Oxford University are racing to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus well ahead of the standard medical timeline. The...

Mosque’s Makeshift Morgue Shows Virus Toll on UK Minorities

Mosque’s Makeshift Morgue Shows Virus Toll on UK Minorities

The holy month of Ramadan is underway, and the Central Jamia Mosque Ghamkol Sharif in Birmingham should be full of...

Ukraine Continues Fighting Fires Near Defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

Ukraine Continues Fighting Fires Near Defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

Firefighters in Ukraine continue to battle a series of fires near the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant nearly a month...

COVID-19 Diaries: In Spain, Routine Keeps Adults and Children Sane

COVID-19 Diaries: In Spain, Routine Keeps Adults and Children Sane

In Spain the confinement began on March 14.  Since then we have not been out on the street, except to...

Sweden Says It Is Prepared to Fight COVID-19 for Long Term 

Sweden Says It Is Prepared to Fight COVID-19 for Long Term 

Swedish government officials said Monday they realize the COVID-19 pandemic is not going away anytime soon and their “lighter” approach...

Italians Decry COVID-19 Reopening Plan as Chaotic, Illogical

Italians Decry COVID-19 Reopening Plan as Chaotic, Illogical

Many Italians were displeased with the details provided by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte regarding an end to the total coronavirus...

Johnson’s Dilemma: Lives or Livelihoods

Johnson’s Dilemma: Lives or Livelihoods

Britain’s Boris Johnson returned to work Monday less than three weeks after leaving the critical-care ward of a London hospital,...