Los Angeles has agreed to step aside for four years in its pursuit of staging the Olympics the world’s largest sporting event, handing Paris the 2024 games. On Monday, the bid team… Read More
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Scaramucci out as White House communications chief
Donald Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci from the role of White House communications director just 10 days after naming the former hedge fund executive to the job. Mr Scaramucci’s short tenure was… Read More
Biotechnology: the new US-China dispute
There are not many agents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation like Ed You. In a workforce that cultivates anonymity, his clean-shaven head gleams. While most of his colleagues are notoriously tight-lipped,… Read More
Ineos wins injunction against shale protesters
Protesters gather near a Cuadrilla gas fracking site given the green light near Blackpool © Getty Ineos has won a High Court injunction against unlawful protests at its UK shale gas sites… Read More
Trump tax reform plan heads into quagmire
Donald Trump’s ambitions on tax reform, regulation and government spending have pushed Wall Street stocks higher The Trump administration’s hopes of achieving tax reform this year are already being questioned by current… Read More
HSBC leadership team’s efforts finally paying off
It has been a long, hard slog for Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver since they took over as chairman and chief executive of HSBC respectively at the end of 2010. Yet their… Read More
British Royal Marine jailed for making bombs for Irish republicans
LONDON (Reuters) – A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern… Read More
Spotify readies for listing with 60m paid accounts
Spotify has been in tough negotiations with big record labels to improve the challenging economics of music streaming © Reuters Spotify has reached 60m paying customers, say people familiar with the matter,… Read More
BAE Systems loses case over ‘single sexist comment’
BAE Systems has lost a legal appeal to reduce a £360,000 compensation payout to a former secretary over a “single sexist comment” at work. The defence company argued that the award to… Read More
Briton convicted of importing child sex doll in landmark case
LONDON (Reuters) – A British man was convicted on Monday of importing a lifelike child sex doll in what police said was a landmark case in the fight against a new form… Read More
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