Shanahan says oil tanker attacks, an ‘international situation’
U.S. Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said on Friday that this week’s attacks on two oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, is ‘an...
Pope backs carbon pricing to stem global warming and appeals to deniers
Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is “essential” to stem global warming – his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters –...
Airbus urges UTC not to be distracted by Raytheon deal
Airbus said on Friday it had urged United Technologies to “keep its eye on the ball” in its role as a commercial aerospace supplier as...
Bombardier opening new California rail-car assembly site
Canada’s Bombardier is opening a new facility in California that will assemble rail cars for San Francisco’s rapid transit system by year’s end, and potentially...
Dish execs met with DOJ, FCC on T-Mobile, Sprint merger
Dish Network Corp executives met this week with the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust chief Makan Delrahim and Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai on the...
Golf: Rose opens up three-shot lead at U.S. Open
Birdies were harder to come by at the U.S. Open on Friday but a rock steady Justin Rose was able to collect two of them...
Tennis: Barty looking forward to fresh start on grass
Newly-crowned French Open champion Ashleigh Barty is looking forward to a fresh start as she gets ready to begin her build-up to Wimbledon on Birmingham’s...
Pharmacies may not stock naloxone, despite statewide orders
(Reuters Health) – More than three years after Pennsylvania issued a statewide order expanding access to the life-saving opioid antidote naloxone, the product was still...
Swiss women stage mass strike demanding overdue equality
Hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland held a strike on Friday to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights, recreating the passion...
Iran months from hitting enriched uranium cap despite acceleration
Iran has multiplied the speed at which it enriches uranium but it is still far from the maximum rate possible under its nuclear deal with...