SoftBank Group’s profit blows past estimates on Vision Fund gains
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp raked in a better-than-expected quarterly operating profit as it saw a leap in investing gains from its $100 billion Vision Fund....
AstraZeneca’s Lynparza meets main goal in late-stage prostate cancer study
British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Wednesday its cancer drug Lynparza has met the main goal of a late-stage study in patients with metastatic prostate cancer...
Tesla scrutinized by U.S. agency over Model 3 safety claims: Bloomberg
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tesla Inc last year for not complying with the agency’s guidelines in...
Oil slips as U.S.-China trade tensions fuel demand concerns
Oil prices dipped on Wednesday as potential damage to the global economy and fuel demand from the intensifying Sino-U.S. trade dispute continued to cast a...
No going back to Taliban repression, Afghan businesswomen say
Businesswomen in Afghanistan are adamant that there will be no going back to the days of repression under the Taliban, and the progress women have...
UK’s opposition Labour Party open to a Scottish independence referendum: McDonnell
Britain’s opposition Labour Party should allow Scotland to hold another independence referendum if the Scottish parliament votes for one, the second most powerful man in...
Two U.S. senators raise privacy concerns over Facebook’s Messenger Kids
Democratic U.S. senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have written to Facebook Inc questioning whether there was a “worrying pattern” of poor privacy protection for...
Blast hits tax agency offices in Copenhagen: police
A large blast hit the Danish Tax Agency’s office in Copenhagen late on Tuesday, although the cause of the explosion was unclear, police said on...
SoftBank Group first-quarter profit blows past estimates on Vision Fund gains
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp raked in a better-than-expected quarterly operating profit due to a leap in investing gains from the $100 billion Vision Fund....
Taliban claim bomb attack on police in Afghanistan; nearly 100 wounded
A car bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a police station in the Afghan capital, Kabul, wounding at least 95 people, government officials said, and the...