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Airbnb has announced it's changing its local brand name in China and doubling its investment.

Major advertisers across Europe are still appearing alongside extremist YouTube videos days after technology giant Google said it was taking steps to protect its clients from inadvertently supporting hate.

A few hours after the New York market closed on February 1, an obscure Chicago artist by the name of Antonio Lee told the world he had become the world's richest man. He managed to issue his fabricated report in the most authoritative of places: The US Securities and Exchange Commission's database.

One of Barclays's most senior bankers in the US is retiring to fight for civil liberties amid concerns about the rights of Muslims, immigrants and women under President Donald Trump.

Investors are dialling back hopes that US President Donald Trump will swiftly enact his agenda. "If the vote doesn't pass, or is postponed, it will cast a lot of doubt on the Trump trades," says an influential bond trader.

There is a growing market for betting on an already unpredictable Trump presidency. Now, Paddy Power is hiring a "head of Trump betting" to oversee bets related to the US president and his administration.

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Middle Eastern airlines such as Emirates and Etihad Airways have been quietly worried that President Trump was going to retaliate over their government subsidies. Is this it?

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Maybe investors should forget the Trump trade and start prepping for the Trump correction. There's an undeniable "risk off" vibe reverberating through markets.

The scandal has put the entire meat industry in jeopardy and "destroyed" a hard-won image of quality products, meat producers say.

Adidas has been testing a store where shoppers can design a jumper, have a body scan to determine fit and get it knitted by a state-of-the-art machine within hours.

Gina Rinehart has consolidated her position as Australia's wealthiest person with the prominent magazine Forbes saying the mining magnate's net wealth jumped to $US15 billion ($19.4 billion) over the past 12 months.

President Donald Trump met with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates at the White House on Monday, just days after releasing a budget proposal that would impose deep cuts on funding for many of the causes championed by the billionaire philanthropist.

Brazil's President Michel Temer, confronting a corruption scandal tarnishing the coountry's lucrative meat industry, met on Sunday with executives and foreign diplomats to assuage health concerns tarnishing a sector responsible for $12 billion in annual exports.

The G20 financial leaders dropped a decade-long commitment to free trade yesterday after opposition from the US, raising fears the Trump administration could upset the global economic order.

The Trump administration on Saturday rejected a statement from other leading economies that warned against the perils of trade protectionism, the latest sign of how the administration's more combative approach to diplomacy could create rifts with U.S. allies and leave traditional partners in the dark about the direction of U.S. policy.

The dreaded - or totally necessary - Oxford comma is perhaps the most polarising of punctuation marks.

Donald Trump's election victory has been an unexpected boon to office supply retailers as sales of poster boards, markers and other sign-making supplies have jumped.

Shares of Sturm Ruger, American Outdoor Brands and Vista Outdoor are down by between 17 and 47 per cent since the US election.

Rupert Murdoch's $18.7 billion bid to takeover Sky News in the UK has been referred to the media regulator with the tory government citing concerns about "broadcasting standards" and "media plurality."

It expands the Car Wash investigation far beyond expectations and will ensnare top congressmen, senior members of the executive branch and other powerful figures.

Managers who close businesses, shut factories or restructure firms without fully considering the impact on workers and their families are committing a "very grave sin", Pope Francis said on Wednesday.

A security guard for a Heinz board member, Todd David Alpert printed out an email for his employer with the terms of the $36 billion takeover of the food giant. The next day, he called his broker and started trading.

Fast fashion is getting tougher as consumer rather spend up on leisure activities and buy more clothes from the rising number of online suppliers. Zara's profitability has shrunk to an eight-year low and H&M; reported its first sales drop in almost four years.

Sportswear giant Adidas has been aggressively defending its logo. Now companies are pushing back against the "bully".

​New Zealand's bees are being stolen and traded by organised crime syndicates seeking to profit from skyrocketing honey prices.

If you have to lose money, do it in Tokyo: Honest finders handed in over a record $42 million in lost cash to the Tokyo police last year.

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Federal Reserve officials are widely expected to announce an interest-rate increase this week.

Emma Walmsley, poised to take over as the first female chief executive officer of the global pharma giant, will earn about a quarter less than her predecessor. The move is likely to reignite a debate on the gender pay gap.

The deal underlines the chip maker's determination to make sure it can provide the computing power needed for autonomous vehicles.