Black Friday gave supermarkets only a limited boost as shoppers delayed their Christmas preparations amid the uncertainty of the General Election, till figures show.
Just Eat has rebuffed the latest attempt by South Africa's Naspers to derail its planned deal with rival Takeaway.com, saying the £5.1 billion sweetened bid undervalues the group.
South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday that Pyongyang's recent unspecified test at a rocket liftoff site was of a rocket engine, amid speculation the North was making preliminary steps toward a prohibited long-range rocket launch, AP reported. Jeong Kyeong-doo said during a visit to Sydney that Seoul expressed its “deep concerns” over the engine...
The UN's highest court is beginning a hearing into allegations of genocide in Burma over the military campaign against the Rohingya minority.
Gold prices will climb to $1,600 per ounce over the next year, Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs projects. It says that central banks are consuming a fifth of the global supply of the yellow metal. “De-dollarization in central banks – demand from central banks for gold is biggest since the Nixon era, eating up 20...
Japanese securities regulators have recommended that carmaker Nissan be fined 2.4 billion yen (£16.8 million) for the under-reporting of compensation of its former chairman Carlos Ghosn.
Qatar is sending its prime minister to a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, its highest level of representation at the annual meeting in two years, Reuters said. The move is seen as the most concrete sign yet of a potential thaw in a regional dispute. Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin...
