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When news broke past year of Geely's plan to invest £1.5bn into its Norfolk outpost, we greeted it with the cautious optimism of a group of people who had alrea...

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This week, a jury agreed and awarded Marie Jean Pierre $21 million in punitive damages , NBC reports. Hilton said it plans to appeal the verdict and da...

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Microsoft pledges $500 million to boost affordable housing in Seattle

In a blog post on Wednesday, the company's president Brad Smith said he made a decision to pull the trigger upon the realization that "a healthy business ne...

The Number of Federal Workers Seeking Unemployment Doubled Last Week

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Shopko Stores closing stores in North Dakota, Minnesota

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Any successful exploit gains the hacker a prize, but also some publicity. Tesla introduced over-the-air-software updates to its vehicles in 2012. Pwn2Own's...

Trump cancels delegation's trip to Davos due to shutdown

Donald Trump has cancelled a proposed overseas trip by his Democratic opponent Nancy Pelosi , and scrapped administration officials' travel to the World Econo...

Chinese envoy warns of blowback if Canada bars Huawei from 5G

Many within the Trump administration have attempted to expose China's intellectual property theft of US businesses, and have called on the president to apply ...

Ghosn's wife slams Japan detention as 'draconian' in letter

But his chief lawyer has previously been pessimistic about the 64-year-old being released soon from a detention center in the Japanese capital, partly because h...

Democrats fail to push latest funding bill to reopen United States govt

Trump is insisting Congress shell out $5.7 billion for wall funding as about 800,000 federal workers go unpaid during the partial shutdown. Both the Internal...

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Are Goldman Sachs Earnings Signaling a Recovery?

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Brexit negotiator says European Union to change agreement if UK's red lines change

Opening a debate on a no-confidence motion due to be held in the British parliament on Wednesday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Prime Minister Theresa ...

Taiwan holds live fire military exercises in response to China threat

In the SCMP's estimation, this makes it the first "semi-official organization on the self-ruled island to act on US calls to blacklist the Chinese telecoms gi...

Hundreds of flights axed as fresh strike hits German airports

Fraport FRAG.DE , operator of Frankfurt airport , Germany's busiest hub, said it expects severe disruption on Tuesday. The coordinated industrial action marks ...

Saudis say OPEC oil cuts on `right track' to balance the market

The Wall Street Journal reported in November that the oil major had been concerned about requirements for disclosure as well as the volatility and uncertain o...

US in criminal probe of China's Huawei

The report could not be immediately confirmed. The Huawei Technologies Company and the ZTE Corporation together with any affiliates or subsidiaries are the tw...

USA sounds alarm about China’s military and economic inroads in Indo-Pacific

Speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, a senior defense official admitted that he was anxious about China now having the confidence to pull off major...

China's natural gas imports hit record high

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NAIAS: Cadillac gives preview of EV crossover concept

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Cathay Pacific mess up first-class ticketing yet again

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Walmart Bans Woman for Drinking While Riding Cart in Parking Lot

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Top auto awards go to Hyundai and Ram

Organizers accept no advertising, though automakers try to capitalize on the marketing value of the awards. South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group won the vehicle ...

M&S names 17 stores for closure, with loss of 1,000 jobs

The Parkgate branch is the only South Yorkshire store under threat. The closure programme has already affected 1,891 people, with 1,591 of them being redeploy...

British lawmakers reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal

Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, who is spearheading efforts to unite Parliament to prevent a no-deal Brexit , said ahead of the vote that the prime minister ...

Galway based Supermacs win their trademark case against fast food Giant McDonalds

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) ruled that McDonald's trademark on the phrase " Big Mac " is no long valid in Europe. "We're delight...

Huawei founder says his company does not spy for Chinese government

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White non-college Americans move away from Trump during shutdown

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Volkswagen, Ford launch alliance for pick-ups, vans

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