Breakingviews TV: Star-sailing
Luxury boatmaker Ferretti counts George Clooney and Sophia Loren among its customers. Chinese owner Weichai salvaged it after it hit choppy financial waters and is...
GM to temporarily lay off 1,300 workers in Canada: CNBC
General Motors Co plans to temporarily lay off 1,300 workers at its final assembly plant in Oshawa, Canada due to a slowdown at United States...
Trump confirms U.S. will revoke California’s power to require cleaner cars
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency will revoke California’s authority to require automakers to build cleaner vehicles than federal requirements...
Algerian army chief moves to limit protest movement
Algeria’s powerful army chief has ordered buses and cars bringing protesters into the capital to be stopped and seized, the latest in a series of...
Italy plans to cut polluting tax breaks by 10% a year : document
The Italian government plans to cut tax expenditures subsidising environmentally harmful activities by 10% each year starting in 2020, according to a draft emergency decree...
Payton not naming Saints’ starting QB
Saints head coach Sean Payton is not tipping his hand at quarterback, refusing to name backup Teddy Bridgewater as the starter Sunday when New Orleans...
Social media firms testify on violent content prevention
Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google told the Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday, they are investing in new technologies to reduce and remove threats of extremist...
Tanzania tells WHO it has no Ebola cases – statement
Tanzania has formally told the World Health Organization (WHO) that it has no cases of Ebola after a woman died there earlier this month from...
Banker tells German court of ‘vast network’ at center of fraud trial
A banker at the center of a trading scheme German prosecutors say resulted in hundreds of millions of euros of illegitimate tax rebates told a...
Judo: Iran suspended after pressurising fighter not to face Israeli
Iran was suspended from international competition by the International Judo Federation (IJF) on Wednesday for putting pressure on one of its fighters to withdraw from...