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Shares of Saudi state oil company Aramco slumped below their initial public offering (IPO) price on Sunday for the first time since they began trading in December, after OPEC's pact with Russia to restrict oil supplies fell apart on Friday.

BILLUND, Denmark: There may be a global revolt against plastic, but Danish toymaker Lego, famous for its multi-coloured plastic building bricks, remains a raging success, even if it, too, aims to go green. Once revolutionary, then a ubiquitous material, plastic is increasingly being shunned due to ...

SAN FRANCISCO: For people hunkering down due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the tech sector has become their new best friend with an array of lifestyle solutions making "social distancing" easier. Those wanting to avoid crowds can have meals delivered from restaurants, stream blockbuster films ...

President Donald Trump praised the United States' relationship with Brazil under Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday, but declined to say whether he would impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the South American country.

Uber Technologies Inc said on Saturday it will offer compensation to drivers and delivery people diagnosed with the coronavirus or placed in quarantine for up to 14 days.

A U.S. judge said Amazon.com Inc is likely to succeed in its challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense's decision to award an up to US$10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft Corp.

The number of coronavirus patients in Germany jumped to 684 on Saturday morning, with concern growing at the economic impact of the spreading epidemic on one of the world's most trade-dependent economies.

A draft interim report from Ethiopian crash investigators circulated to U.S. government agencies concludes the March 2019 crash of a Boeing Co 737 MAX was caused by the plane's design, two people briefed on the matter said Friday.

The world is in a period of accelerating change, as seen in the growing list of developments that have gone from impossible to inevitable, says an observer.

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian crash investigators have tentatively concluded that the crash of a Boeing Co 737 MAX last year was caused by the plane's design, Bloomberg News reported on Friday (Mar 6), citing a draft report being circulated to participants in the probe. The conclusions say little or ......