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Restaurants of fast food chain McDonald’s have dropped tomatoes from their burgers and wraps in many parts of India, hit by supply shortages and quality concerns after prices of ...

While the industry consumes lots of trees and produces plenty of waste, grass packaging and new construction materials point toward a more sustainable path. By Tom Cassauwers Switzerland is renowned ...

The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible through the internet, has not triggered any concerns so far or the need for legislation to rein it in, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager ...

ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm ...

Record demand from India sharply increased Airbus (AIR.PA) orders in June to leave the European planemaker with 1,044 net orders in the first half of the year, data showed on ...

US auto safety regulators said on Thursday they are seeking updated responses and current data for an ongoing probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles and the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system ...

Oil prices rose on Friday and were on track for their second straight weekly gain, as resilient demand resulted in a larger-than-expected fall in US oil stockpiles, offsetting fears of ...

Deputy premier Saade Chami said on Friday that deputy governors of Lebanon’s central bank should run it if no governor is appointed by the end of the month, calling ...

British house prices fell last month in annual terms at the fastest rate in 12 years and soaring interest rates are likely to herald more weakness in the housing market, mortgage ...

Retail sales in the eurozone were unchanged in May, Eurostat said on Thursday, as increased spending on non-food items offset declines for food and automotive fuel. Retail sales volumes in ...

Raiffeisen Bank International is delaying plans to leave Russia, three people familiar with its position said, as Austria steps up its defence of long-standing ties with Moscow. Raiffeisen (RBI), the ...

Global rice prices, now at their highest in 11 years, are set to rally further after India moved to boost payments to farmers, just as El Nino threatens yields in key ...

Jet2 (JET2.L) has seen a pick-up in demand for package holidays as Britons seek certainty on spending in a cost of living crisis, the travel company said on Thursday, ...

Supermarket group Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain’s largest private-sector employer, is to offer its staff virtual appointments with a private family doctor, in another indication of the pressures engulfing the ...

Eurozone business activity slipped into contractionary territory last month in a broad-based downturn across the bloc’s dominant services industry and a deepening decline of factory output, a survey showed. ...

Russia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it would sell 1.7 billion roubles’ ($18.9 million) worth of foreign currency a day between July 7 and Aug. 4, a decrease in the volume of daily ...

A financial stream that helped fund the world’s riskiest companies and grew into a market estimated at $1.5 trillion in the low interest rate years is drying up, as aggressive ...

Sick of customs delays and extra bureaucracy since Britain left the European Union, Farrat, a small manufacturer on the edge of Manchester, is ramping up investment to compensate – in Germany. ...

Airbus (AIR.PA) is stepping up testing of radical new wing technology as the planemaker lays the foundation for a future successor to its best-selling A320 series, but faces a ...

A Swiss proxy adviser representing some former Credit Suisse shareholders has backed a class-action lawsuit seeking a better price from UBS (UBSG.S) for its takeover of its cross-town rival, ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will set up a new federal ministry of investment to develop the Gulf state’s investment strategy both globally and domestically as it contends with ...

Bahrain has signed a memorandum of understanding for strategic investments and collaborations with Britain that will see the Gulf state’s private sector invest 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in Britain, the ...

Oil prices rose on Tuesday as markets weighed supply cuts for August by top exporters Saudi Arabia and Russia against the backdrop of an uncertain global economic outlook. Brent crude ...

Meta Platforms (META.O) plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, days after Twitter executive chair Elon Musk announced a temporary cap on how many posts users can read on ...