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India's e-commerce giant Flipkart said on Tuesday that it is revamping its shopping app to add support for Hindi language, a video streaming service , an...

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The retail giant sells guns in about half of its 4,750 USA stores, making it one of the nation's largest sellers of firearms and ammunition. Now advocacy grou...

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Iconic Retailer 'Barneys New York' Files for Bankruptcy

The company's five flagship locations in New York , Beverly Hills, San Francisco, and Boston will remain open, along with two Barneys Warehouse locations in Ce...

Flying auto hovers for one minute during Japanese demonstration

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New Media to Buy USA Today-Owner Gannett in $1.4B Deal

Gannett and GateHouse Media will merge in a cash-and-stock deal valued just shy of $1.4 billion. New Media Investment Group Inc. agreed to acquire Gannet...

British Airlines forced landing

Passengers took to social media to share video and photos of the experience after a British Airways flight from London's Heathrow landed at Valencia in Spain. P...

Protesters trying to 'destroy Hong Kong': Carrie Lam

Rather than dying down over time, the demonstrations have only grown disruptive. In response to the anti-extradition protests and the government's refusal t...

Huawei is testing a smartphone with Hongmeng OS

The release of a Hongmeng-powered smartphone would mark a major step for China's Huawei , the world's second-biggest maker of smartphones, as USA government ...

Gold Settles At Over 6-year High On Safe-haven Appeal

Place gold XAU= was up 0.9% at $1,452.99 per ounce as of0540 GMT, after striking its highest possible because Might 2013 at $1,455.26 earlier in the session. Th...

North Korea fires two more missiles, South says

The North has demanded Seoul to turn away from Washington and restart inter-Korean economic projects held back by US -led sanctions against the North. Seoul's J...

Increased 10% US Tariffs on Chinese Imports Worsen Trade talks

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Heathrow airport cancels hundreds of flights ahead of strike

Virgin Atlantic said it would continue with its plan to switch a small number of flights to Gatwick. The union, called Unite, expects about 2,500 to walk ou...

Global stock markets crash as United States trade war with China escalates

It now takes 7.0835 yuan to buy a dollar. In a statement on Monday morning, the People's Bank of China said the exchange rate against the United States do...

Bitcoin Price Surges 10% to Above $11,800 As China Devalues Its Currency

In a stark escalation of the trade war that has roiled financial markets and weighed on economic growth worldwide, Beijing allowed the yuan to tumble to its wea...

'You Spelt "Terrorism" Wrong': Rihanna Had Something to Say to Trump

In El Paso, situated on the border with Mexico, more than eight in 10 residents are of Hispanic descent. Rihanna criticized President Donald Trump's respo...

Oil Resumes Decline as Trade War Overshadows Iran Tanker Seizure

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Heathrow is set for summer strike chaos after 'rejection' of pay deal

Heathrow said contingency plans had been activated to keep the airport open on both strike days. Affected passengers may be offered other flights or refunds b...

Apple, Goldman Sachs Ban Cryptocurrency Purchases, Cash Advances with Credit Card

Apple Card users are also prohibited from engaging in any illegal activity, "including in connection with unlawful domestic or worldwide gambling". Only hardcor...

Malvern appoints administrator for Super Break, LateRooms

Super Break has about 250 employees and had approximately 20,000 bookings, involving about 53,000 people. But vouchers and tickets for entertainment, attracti...

Google halts Assistant speech data transcription in EU

Google has defended the practice, saying that it transcribes only a small fraction (0.2 percent) of the audio snippets, and they're not associated with user acc...

Ford Super Duty Truck Gets New Engine Option!

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First Fed rate cut since 2008 fails to ignite markets

The economy is far healthier now despite risks to what has become the longest expansion on record. There's no doubt that the reporter questions were created t...

US employment growth slows in July; wages pick up

While the pace of job creation in July surpasses that needed to keep up with population growth, it doesn't surpass it by much . The retail sectors with the b...

Carney sees major chance of no-deal Brexit

Mr Carney said the shock to the economy would be "instantaneous" in a no-deal Brexit. Duncan Brock, Group Director at the Chartered Institute of Procurement a...

New Jersey Among 37 States to Recall Entenmann's Little Bites Cookies

The plastic isn't baked into the cookies , but the company said it could be a choking hazard . The recall was initiated after receiving comsumer reports fou...

United States trade deficit falls 0.3% in June

China will also continue promoting peace through diplomatic and political dialogue and will "work hard in defending interests of developing countries", he said....

Shell profits plunge on lower oil prices

Shell CEO Ben van Beurden says Shell faced "challenging macroeconomic conditions in refining and chemicals, as well as lower gas prices". "In our upstream, we'v...

Chick-fil-A named America's favorite fast food

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Facebook to rename Instagram and WhatsApp because it DGAF

Thank God! The name of the apps, both WhatsApp and Instagram , remain the same on your device's homescreen. It appears that Mark Zuckerberg and his minio...

Hotel Group Ditches Mini Toiletries

IHG says it now has an average of 20 crore bathroom miniatures in use across its entire hotel estate every year. The resort chain introduced Tuesday that it is ...

IBM fuses software with Red Hat to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut

Chapter two, she said, will be enterprise-driven, meaning scaling digital and AI, including hybrid cloud and mission-critical applications. "The next chapte...