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Burberry to stop burning clothes to prevent 'wrong people' wearing them

Luxury fashion Burberry burned millions of unwanted products last year, sparking environmental concerns from its shareholders and a debate over the wastage by luxury brands.

EU clears Apple's purchase of song-recognition app Shazam

Apple announced last year that it was going to buy Shazam, which had been a competitor to its digital assistant Siri.

U.S business fears worst as Trump's $200 billion tariff blitz on China goods looms

China said it is ready to impose retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods if that happens.

Putin's Novichok assassins will never face justice for Salisbury nerve agent attacks

Russian military intelligence officers, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, named by British police.

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Kushner family real estate firm's unpaid NYC fines: $500K and counting

Company, which was run President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, accused of cutting corners at any cost.

Theresa May's Brexit battle resumes with attacks from both wings of Conservative Party

Boris Johnson, who resigned as foreign secretary after feuding with May over Brexit, used his column in the Daily Telegraph to accuse May of surrendering to the EU.

China's JD.com billionaire Richard Liu 'released without charge' and back in Beijing

Liu was arrested in Minneapolis late Friday night pending possible criminal sexual conduct charges.

Stop working on your commute – it doesn't benefit anyone

The extension of work into commute time reflects the presence of an intrusive and pernicious "always-on" culture.

London Crossrail: Opening of UK's biggest infrastructure project hit by major delays

The new east-west London railway - named the Elizabeth line - has cost around £15 billion.

Indigenous people of the Guarani-Kaiowa tribe

How indigenous peoples' lives are being destroyed by global agribusiness in Brazil

The Kaiowá and Guarani have no access to drinkable water, no protection from agro-chemical contamination, and no adequate conditions for planting, hunting or fishing.

Europe's unemployment falls to lowest level since global financial crash

Germany is operating at full employment, with the jobless rate only 3.4 percent. Others such as Spain and Italy have double-digit unemployment rates.

Coca-Cola moves into coffee, buying UK's Costa chain for £3.9 billion from Whitbread

The deal represents a big return to Whitbread, which bought Costa in 1995 for £19 million.

Hopes rise for war-torn South Sudan as oil production resumes

South Sudan's economy is almost entirely dependent on exports of oil from its 3.5 billion barrels of reserves.

Brexit deal 80 percent agreed but October deadline could still be missed

Britain's Brexit minister Dominic Raab said he was "stubbornly optimistic" that there would be agreement.

Maker of James Bond's favourite sports car eyes stock market

British luxury car maker Aston Martin is reported to be selling shares that would value the company at around £5 billion ($6.44 billion).

Fallen hero of Israel's economy Nochi Danker heads to jail

Dankner, once one of Israel's richest men, found guilty of securities fraud.

A history of Bitcoin – told through the five different groups who bought it

Bitcoin's value, then, has been built on an evolving series of narratives which have drawn in successive waves of buyers.

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The great tariff rumble: It's Donald 'George Foreman' Trump versus China's 'Muhammad Ali'

Donald Trump's economic gamble with trade wars and tax cuts – he could win big or lose everything.

Iran asks UN's highest court to suspend US sanctions

Iran warned Monday that re-imposed U.S. sanctions would cripple its economy and plunge the volatile Middle East deeper into crisis.

Uber heads in new direction with Toyota on self-driving cars

Toyota, based in Japan, is investing $500 million in Uber as part of the self-driving alliance announced Monday.

China in struggle to curb reliance on US market, suppliers

Beijing is responding to President Donald Trump's tariff hikes by pushing companies to trade more with other countries.

Musk says investors convinced him Tesla should stay public

In an Aug. 7 post on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote that he was considering taking the electric car company private.

Google takes on alleged Iranian influence campaign

On Tuesday, Facebook revealed it had removed 652 suspicious pages, groups and accounts linked to Russia and Iran.

British woman freed temporarily from Iranian prison: Husband

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe left an Iranian prison for a three-day furlough Thursday.

Australia ruling party chooses Treasurer Morrison as next PM

Incumbent Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was forced to hold the leadership ballot. He did not contest and later confirmed his intention to quit politics.

Facebook takes down 652 accounts linked to Russia, Iran

Shortly after Facebook's announcement, Twitter revealed it had also suspended 284 accounts for "coordinated manipulation," many of them apparently originating from Iran.

UK, EU give glimmer of Brexit optimism amid no-deal warnings

Negotiations with EU have got bogged down amid infighting within British Prime Minister Theresa May's divided Conservative government.

Survey of economists: Some Trump policies could slow growth

Over 90 percent of economists surveyed said they think the Trump administration's current and threatened tariffs will harm the economy.

Elon Musk says cutting back on work hours isn't an option

The Tesla CEO was responding to an open letter from Arianna Huffington on Friday in which she called on him to change the way he works.

UK's right-wing Farage vows to end Brexit 'sell-out'

Emotional arguments about membership in the bloc are raging as fiercely as they did during the 2016 referendum.

China is sending team to Washington to talk trade

Investors expressed relief at the prospect of a cease-fire in a trade standoff that has been escalating for months.

Can Twitter change its 'core' and remain Twitter?

The move to fight rampant abuse and misinformation will require huge investments for a company that doesn't have the same resources as Google and Facebook.