Jennifer Meierhans Business reporter, BBC News Co-op The Co-op has admitted breaching rules to prevent rival supermarkets from opening nearby more than 100 times. The UK’s competition watchdog found Co-op had breached an order which limits supermarkets’ ability to prevent nearby land being used by rival retailers across England, Scotland and Wales. Blocking other grocers […]
Report says more than 95 percent of children in the central town of Kabwe had elevated levels of lead in their blood. The failure of Zambia’s government to intervene against “blatant violations” of environmental laws is worsening the exposure of a high number of children to severe health risks, mostly lead poisoning, at a shuttered […]
Paul Hastie BBC Scotland News Getty Images Shona Robison said the time was right to stand down. Finance secretary Shona Robison has announced she will stand down at the next Holyrood election after 27 years as an MSP. Robison, the MSP for Dundee City East, has held several roles in SNP governments including health secretary […]
For 30 miles we bounce along a dirt road in southwestern Wyoming, heading toward a jagged skyline. It’s early September and the aspens are starting to turn yellow. As we climb toward the mountains, the air grows colder. Soon the road will see snowfall. Jeff Munroe, a professor of geology at Middlebury College in Vermont, […]
Victoria Gutierrez has been thinking about avocados a lot lately. President Trump was warning that hefty tariffs on food and other supplies from Mexico, Canada and China were coming. So Ms. Gutierrez, the chief merchandising officer for Sysco, the global food distributor, and a task force inside the company began sifting through the thousands of […]
Liverpool look set to compete with Barcelona for the signature of AC Milan winger Rafael Leão, while the Blaugrana are also reportedly scouting Espanyol right-back Omar El Hilali. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumors, and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades | Women’s January grades […]
In the days immediately preceding his address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Trump took a chain saw to government agencies, initiated a trade war, cut off arms to Ukraine and sided with a brutal authoritarian, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. But a visitor arriving from a distant planet who listened to Mr. Trump’s […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed a sweeping lawsuit against three of the nation’s largest banks over what the agency had described as shoddy safeguards on their Zelle money transfer network that allowed scammers to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from customers. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Arizona in the […]
In November, Elon Musk asked a federal court to block OpenAI’s plan to transform itself from a nonprofit into a purely for-profit company. On Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco denied Mr. Musk’s request, calling it “extraordinary.” But the court allowed Mr. Musk to proceed with other aspects of a lawsuit he filed last […]
One of Manchester United’s most significant supporters groups has urged match-going fans to wear black to Sunday’s clash with Arsenal at Old Trafford in protest over the Glazer family’s ownership and direction of the club. “The 1958” issued a statement on Tuesday asking supporters to join a march before kick-off as the club deals with […]