Good news for UK economy as pay rates finally pick up
Official figures show UK wages climbing for first time in six months and a record number of job vacancies.
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves resigns after 12 women make 'appalling' sexual harassment claims
TV king Moonves, who is accused of forcing a woman to give him oral sex, becomes latest powerful exec felled in #MeToo era.
Will Boris Johnson be prime minister? 'Disgusting' Brexit suicide vest remark splits Tories
The attack, and Johnson's choice of metaphor, widened the divide in the governing Conservative Party over Brexit.
North Korea's soft focus: Kim Jung un stresses economy, not nukes, on 70th anniversary
The "new line" of putting economic development first has been Kim's top priority this year.
Grey power: Could Russia's pensioners be the downfall of Vladimir Putin?
A recent opinion poll shows Putin's approval ratings crashed this summer following the announcement of the pension reform
380,000 British Airways customers' credit card details stolen by criminals
Shares in BA's parent company, IAG, were down 2 percent on Friday.
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.
Will there be a new financial crisis? Emerging markets spiral into turmoil
Worry that big losses in some developing markets could ripple out into the global financial system.
Is Trump losing the tariffs war he started? US trade deficit widens to $50.1 billion
Trade gap with the EU shot up 50 percent to a record $17.6 billion and with Canada nearly 58 percent to $3.1 billion.
Who is Richard Liu? China's celebrity tech tycoon faces U.S rape investigation
Liu has dragged China's number two online retailer from a Beijing backwater to a billion dollar New York listing.
Dutch bank ING hit with huge fine in money laundering case
ING has paid 775 million euros for failure to implement a law aimed at preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
