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Diamond sells for highest price ever paid
You could buy more than a dozen Sydney harbourview mansions.. or splurge out on this rare gem.
You could buy more than a dozen Sydney harbourview mansions.. or splurge out on this rare gem.
Jan Polanik has sued the donut chain for serving him "margarine or a butter substitute" instead of butter with his bagels for four years.
Any horror aficionado knows that the only good zombie is a dead zombie. Don't risk trying to bring one back to life. It'll just come back to bite you.
Twitter Inc is in a funk. Even the heavy involvement of "The Donald" has done little to turn the company's fortunes around.
Tesla says its first-quarter deliveries of its electric cars jump 69 per cent from a year ago to a quarterly record of 25,000 vehicles.
When President Donald Trump berated Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull two months ago over 1,250 refugees the US agreed to accept from Australia, the phone conversation was perceived ominously: A decades-old alliance that was already strained by Australia's economic reliance on China was now being put under greater stress.
Toshiba shareholders have lashed out at management and lamented the downfall of the Japanese icon after its disastrous foray into nuclear energy.
The call from China's powerful police ministry comes after the Turnbull government's failure to secure ratification of the 2007 extradition treaty with Beijing.
There is more to income inequality than the famed 1 per cent versus the 99 per cent or standing chief executive officers next to average workers.
Tesla chief Elon Musk just gained a massive and well-connected confidant to help him better crack China's auto market: Tencent Holdings.
Iceland this week became the first country in the world to introduce legislation requiring employers to prove they are paying men and women equally.
For the first time since the launch of the European project in the 1950s, the US no longer sees the EU as an asset in the diplomatic equation. Many in the White House would happily see it broken up.
The law aims to recoup revenue from some of the nation's biggest companies including Apple, BHP Billiton, Chevron and Crown.
Tax fights involving Amazon and Chevron will have major implications for other companies in long-running disputes.
China will substantially cut the number of sectors not open to foreign investment as it seeks fairer treatment for Chinese firms investing overseas.
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.
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?
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.
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