By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Vodafone is in talks with CK Hutchison about merging their businesses in Britain to create a market leading mobile network that could accelerate the roll-out of 5G services and expand broadband availability. Vodafone sa…
Athletics-London Marathon runner dies after collapsing during race
(Reuters) – A 36-year-old runner who took part in the London Marathon on Sunday has died after he collapsed during the race, organisers said on Monday. The runner from Southeast England, who was not named by organisers, collapsed after the 23-mile mark…
UK’s Kwarteng says he will publish new fiscal plans “shortly”
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Monday he would publish details “shortly” on how he planned to bring down public debt as a share of economic output over the medium term, addressing concerns among investor…
Oil jumps $3 as OPEC+ weighs biggest output cut since 2020
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices jumped $3 a barrel on Monday as OPEC+ considered reducing output by more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) to buttress prices with what would be its biggest cut since the start of the COVID-19 pande…
Burkina Faso miners say work continues despite coup
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Endeavour Mining’s operations in Burkina Faso are “unaffected by recent political events”, the gold miner said on Monday after the West African nation’s second military coup of the year on Friday. Endeavour is the biggest minin…
Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA
By Natalie Grover, Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) -Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolv…
Dutch food company HAK to pause operations in January as energy costs bite
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – HAK, a major seller of conserved foods such as peas, beans and apple sauce in the Netherlands, is to temporarily halt production this winter due to high energy costs, with a spokesperson saying the pause would last six weeks from …
IKEA’s home deliveries will be fully electric by 2025 – CEO
By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) – IKEA’s home deliveries will be made by electric vehicles by 2025 as part of a target at the world’s No.1 furniture brand to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years, CEO Jesper Brodin sai…
Ben & Jerry’s says parent co Unilever ‘covertly’ took trademarks
(Refiles to fix reference to ‘West Bank’ in paragraph 5) By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ben & Jerry’s says parent company Unilever Plc wrongly transferred brand names out of reach of its independent board more than 20 years ago in an updated l…
Apple loses second bid to challenge Qualcomm patents at U.S. Supreme Court
By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday again declined to hear Apple Inc’s bid to revive an effort to cancel three Qualcomm Inc smartphone patents despite the settlement of the underlying dispute between the two tech giants. The…