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”

Electric Ice Cream Van Fights Air Pollution

Electric Ice Cream Van Fights Air Pollution

As governments around the world try to tackle air pollution problems, some cities are looking to ban fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. But...

Selling Leftovers to Help Prevent Food Waste

Selling Leftovers to Help Prevent Food Waste

Leftovers. It’s what’s for dinner. In Germany that saying does not just apply to people who cook too much at...

Turkey Fires Central Bank Governor 

Turkey Fires Central Bank Governor 

Turkey fired its central bank governor Saturday and replaced him with the bank’s deputy governor, a presidential decree published on...

British Seek Clues to Iranian Sanction Busting From Crew of Seized Tanker

British Seek Clues to Iranian Sanction Busting From Crew of Seized Tanker

British police on Friday were questioning the crew of an Iranian supertanker that was seized at 4 a.m. Thursday in...

TIM to Extend 5G Services to 6 More Italian Cities by Year-end

TIM to Extend 5G Services to 6 More Italian Cities by Year-end

Italy’s biggest phone company, Telecom Italia (TIM), plans to extend 5G services to six more Italian cities as well as...

France Calls on G-7 to Double Girls’ Education Funding in Africa’s Sahel

France Calls on G-7 to Double Girls’ Education Funding in Africa’s Sahel

PARIS — France wants the world’s leading industrial economies to double funding for girls’ education in the Sahel at a...

Merkel, May at Summit on Western Balkans’ EU Aspirations

Merkel, May at Summit on Western Balkans’ EU Aspirations

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Theresa May have joined a high-level meeting in Poland that seeks to...

NATO: No Breakthroughs in INF Talks With Russia

NATO: No Breakthroughs in INF Talks With Russia

NATO and Russia did not make any breakthroughs on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in talks at the alliance...

UN Envoy for Syria Urges Russia to Help Stabilize Idlib

UN Envoy for Syria Urges Russia to Help Stabilize Idlib

The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria on Friday urged Russia to help stabilize the violence in northwestern Idlib province and...

Turkey: 2 Killed in Explosion Near Border with Syria

Turkey: 2 Killed in Explosion Near Border with Syria

An explosion inside a vehicle near Turkey’s border with Syria on Friday has left two people dead and two others...

Greece Wildfires Prompt Evacuation of 4 More Villages

Greece Wildfires Prompt Evacuation of 4 More Villages

Two new brush fires broke out overnight on the Greek island of Evia, forcing the evacuation of four villages, authorities...

German Fire Exercise Aims to Prevent Notre Dame Tragedy

German Fire Exercise Aims to Prevent Notre Dame Tragedy

A single cigarette may have started the April fire that destroyed much of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.  Flames tore...

Western Balkan Nations Press EU Aspirations at Poland Summit

Western Balkan Nations Press EU Aspirations at Poland Summit

Government ministers from some European Union nations sought Thursday to reassure their partners in the Western Balkans during a meeting...

Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor and Activist, Dies at 85

Eva Mozes Kor, Holocaust Survivor and Activist, Dies at 85

Eva Mozes Kor, a Romanian Holocaust survivor who spent four decades advocating forgiveness, has died at age 85 — during...

France to Fast-Track Return of Artifacts from Benin

France to Fast-Track Return of Artifacts from Benin

Returning African artifacts taken by explorers and colonizers remains a hot-button issue in Europe-Africa relations — one that gained traction...

Putin Meets With Pope, Italian Leaders During Rome Visit

Putin Meets With Pope, Italian Leaders During Rome Visit

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Italy on Thursday for the first time in four years, at the invitation of Prime...

Sweden Wants to Detain Rapper A$AP Rocky After Street Fight

Sweden Wants to Detain Rapper A$AP Rocky After Street Fight

Swedish prosecutors say U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky should be formally arrested over a fight in downtown Stockholm and should be...

Britain Backs Hong Kong Protests as China Slams ‘Foreign Interference’

Britain Backs Hong Kong Protests as China Slams ‘Foreign Interference’

China has accused Britain of ‘flagrant interference’ after it voiced support for anti-government protestors in Hong Kong. Britain has warned...

New Saudi Ambassadors Take up Posts in Washington and London

New Saudi Ambassadors Take up Posts in Washington and London

Saudi Arabia’s new ambassadors to the United States and the United Kingdom have taken up their posts after several months’...

Putin Confirms Fire-Hit Submersible Was Nuclear-Powered

Putin Confirms Fire-Hit Submersible Was Nuclear-Powered

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday confirmed reports that the navy’s deep-sea submersible vessel that caught fire on Monday, killing...

Hot Weather in Greek Capital Shuts Down Acropolis

Hot Weather in Greek Capital Shuts Down Acropolis

Greece’s most famous archaeological site, the Acropolis in Athens, has shut down to visitors for four hours because of hot...

Power Plants Create Giant Water Battery

Power Plants Create Giant Water Battery

California is a leader in renewable energy, and the state has pledged to use only clean sources for electricity, including...