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”

Twitter: Hack Hit 130 Accounts; Company ‘Embarrassed’

Twitter: Hack Hit 130 Accounts; Company ‘Embarrassed’

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers...

UK Ratchets Up Criticism of China Over Uighurs, Hong Kong

UK Ratchets Up Criticism of China Over Uighurs, Hong Kong

Britain and China issued new salvos of criticism against each other Sunday, with the U.K. foreign secretary hinting that he...

Turkey Suspends Flights to Iran, Afghanistan Due to Coronavirus Outbreak 

Turkey Suspends Flights to Iran, Afghanistan Due to Coronavirus Outbreak 

Turkey has suspended flights to Iran and Afghanistan as part of measures against the coronavirus outbreak, the Transport Ministry said...

Catalonia Urges Thousands of People to Stay Home as Coronavirus Cases Rise 

Catalonia Urges Thousands of People to Stay Home as Coronavirus Cases Rise 

Authorities in Catalonia on Sunday urged more than 96,000 people in three towns to stay at home, as coronavirus cases...

EU Leaders Meet for Third Day of Talks in Brussels   

EU Leaders Meet for Third Day of Talks in Brussels   

As European Union leaders began a third day of talks in Brussels Sunday to try to agree on a massive...

COVID-19 Creates Leg Room for Greece’s Congested Capital

COVID-19 Creates Leg Room for Greece’s Congested Capital

For all its ancient glory, marvelous monuments and historic core, Athens is largely an ugly, 20th-century metropolis that grew rapidly...

Paris Beaches Open with Floating Cinema on the Seine

Paris Beaches Open with Floating Cinema on the Seine

Paris Plages (Paris Beaches) opened this year with an outdoor movie showing on the banks of the River Seine, as...

Brussels Summit Struggles as EU Leaders Haggle Over Pandemic Recovery Plan

Brussels Summit Struggles as EU Leaders Haggle Over Pandemic Recovery Plan

European Union leaders met face-to-face Friday in Brussels for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic emerged on the continent...

EU Leaders Resume ‘Grumpy’ Summit on Budget, Virus Fund

EU Leaders Resume ‘Grumpy’ Summit on Budget, Virus Fund

European Union leaders hunted for compromises Saturday on the second day of a summit to reach a deal on an...

French Protesters Mark Death of Black Man in Police Custody

French Protesters Mark Death of Black Man in Police Custody

Protesters are marching in a Paris suburb Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of a Black man...

Thousands in Khabarovsk, Russia Protest the arrest of regional governor

Thousands in Khabarovsk, Russia Protest the arrest of regional governor

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the Russian city of Khabarovsk Saturday to protest the arrest...

Greece Rallies International Support Against Decision to Recast Hagia Sophia into Mosque

Greece Rallies International Support Against Decision to Recast Hagia Sophia into Mosque

Turkey’s decision to revert the historic landmark, Hagia Sophia, to a mosque has sparked global outrage. But perhaps more than...

EU Leaders Deadlocked Over COVID Recovery Plan After a Day of Haggling

EU Leaders Deadlocked Over COVID Recovery Plan After a Day of Haggling

EU leaders failed Friday to make headway in negotiations over a massive stimulus plan to breathe life into economies ravaged...

Angelina Jolie Says Children ‘Invisible Victims’ of Rape in War

Angelina Jolie Says Children ‘Invisible Victims’ of Rape in War

Actor and activist Angelina Jolie urged the U.N. Security Council on Friday to fulfill its promise to hold to account...

British Lawmakers Seen Pushing for Earlier Huawei Ouster

British Lawmakers Seen Pushing for Earlier Huawei Ouster

The British government’s decision to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G telecom network beginning in 2027 is only...

100-year-old British Fundraiser Tom Moore Receives Knighthood 

100-year-old British Fundraiser Tom Moore Receives Knighthood 

British World War II veteran Captain Tom Moore, who became a national hero and international celebrity in April when he raised $41 million for Britain’s...

Q&A: What’s Behind the Twitter Bitcoin Hack?

Q&A: What’s Behind the Twitter Bitcoin Hack?

Hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of world leaders, celebrities and tech moguls on Wednesday in one of the most...

Princess Beatrice Marries in Private Ceremony at Windsor

Princess Beatrice Marries in Private Ceremony at Windsor

Princess Beatrice got married in a private ceremony Friday, with her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, in attendance, Buckingham Palace said...

Russia Says No Need to Steal Western Coronavirus Research

Russia Says No Need to Steal Western Coronavirus Research

Russia still expects a tentative agreement with a multinational pharmaceutical company to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine under development with Oxford...

Quest for Justice Helps Fuel Black Rights Fight in France

Quest for Justice Helps Fuel Black Rights Fight in France

Assa Traoré has been fighting for justice ever since her brother Adama died in the custody of French police on...

Police Make Arrest in Killing of Tech CEO Found Dismembered

Police Make Arrest in Killing of Tech CEO Found Dismembered

A person is in custody in connection with the killing of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur found dismembered inside his luxury...

Google Offers Scholarships for Certificate Programs

Google Offers Scholarships for Certificate Programs

Google, the behemoth technology company that has become a verb for online search, is offering financial aid to students who...