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Commissioner Keith Sakelhide tried in vain to get representatives of both companies to voluntarily adopt fingerprint background checks verified by law-enforcement agencies as a good business practice and to conduct pre-employment or post-accident drug testing of drivers.

The dollar extended its losses against other major currencies on Friday, underscoring investors’ wariness over weakness in the global economy and markets given the Federal Reserve’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged. “Unequivocally, the Fed was on the...

That marks a downward revision to Eurostat’s flash estimate of 0.2% and pushes annual inflation further away from the ECB’s target of just below 2%.

“Such wear may cause a short circuit that may lead to inadvertent driver-side air-bag deployment”, the United States unit (formerly Chrysler Group) of the global automaker said in a statement.

The inflation calculated on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) during August continued to remain in negative territory for the tenth month in a row, while the one measured on Consumer Price Index (CPI) has touched a new low.

The rupee closed at 65.67, up 1.2% from its previous close of 66.46, its steepest closing gain since 18 November 2013.

Alibaba, of course, disagreed, and on Sunday followed with a lengthy response, going through Laing’s argument on an nearly point-by-point basis, adding that the story, “lacks three key ingredients – integrity, professionalism, and fair play”. Banking on...

Mr Stevens’ positive view appears to lower the chances of the Reserve Bank cutting the official cash rate further from its current record low level of 2 per cent.

Madden added, “One of the challenges Bush has is that there is a narrative out there – that Bush is the moderate in the race and this ad is an attempt to fill in the blanks for voters on what was actually a conservative record in Florida”.

The most expensive were Zurich, Geneva and New York City, according to the prices for a standardised basket of 122 goods and services. Manama workers earn the highest average net wages in the Middle East. In Nairobi, Jakarta and Kiev, the lowest-ranked cities, workers receive...

AppleWhen it comes to purchasing an iPhone directly from Apple, the company recently introduced the iPhone Upgrade Program. According to a spokesperson, the company is “on pace” to beat last year’s record of 10 million sales based upon weekend preorders versus...

Price growth in the 19-nation currency bloc decelerated to 0.1 per cent in August compared to a year earlier, after standing at 0.2 per cent in July, the European Union statistics office in Luxembourg said on Wednesday. “It could announce an extension of its current...

Exiting the quarter, Rite Aid is lowering its fiscal full year net income forecast to between $125 million and $195 million from its prior outlook for between $150 million and $230 million.

Frustrated with the outcome, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., set up a third vote Thursday on a measure that would bar Obama from lifting sanctions on Iran unless Tehran recognized Israel as a state and released US prisoners held in Iran. First, after Carly Fiorina said...

Cuba formally has an official ambassador in the United States from this Thursday afternoon, after the White House approved the credentials of Jose Ramon Cabanas Rodriguez as the new head of his country’s diplomatic office in Washington.