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Today it announced plans to increase its standard rate of pay to £7.36 per hour – an inflation-busting 4% raise that takes its workers above the Government-mandated “national living wage” of £7.20 that will come into force next April.

The entire deal, including debt, is estimated at $12 billion.

A federal court in Arizona has temporarily shut down Vemma Nutrition Company, a multilevel marketer of energy drinks that the government described as an “unlawful pyramid”.

Eight environmental organizations announced today they intend to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to set new and tighter standards for disposal of oil and gas drilling and fracking waste that they say threatens public health and the environment. Although...

Approval from the D.C commission would have been the last regulatory hurdle the companies would need to clear in order for the merger to go through, Reuters noted.

British Airways’ announcement that it will offer nonstop flights from Mineta San Jose global Airport to London starting next May – and on the lovely 787 Dreamliner, no less – is great news for residents of the South Bay, Santa Cruz and the Monterey Peninsula.

Due for completion by 2023, the 15-mile (25km) wastewater tunnel, from Acton in West London to Abbey Mills in the east, is urgently needed to deal with the amount of untreated sewage going into the River Thames – 62 million tonnes or eight billion toilet flushes previous year.

Two women passed the U.S. Army’s Ranger School, one of the most intense and grueling of military programs, reported CBS News.

Valentino says he knew nothing of the charges or Martinez’s failure to complete a background check.

British Airways will launch a direct B787-9 Dreamliner service between London Heathrow and San Jose, California next summer.

Dudley suggested, however, that the Fed’s decision will depend more on global economic troubles then market volatility.

Nationally, delays due to traffic congestion past year kept drivers and their passengers cooped up in cars for almost 7 billion extra hours and more than 3 billion gallons of fuel were wasted, according to the Texas A&M report, which was jointly produced with INRIX, a data...

This time, battles over Planned Parenthood and education could lead to another standoff between the Republicans and the White House, and Heckscher doesn’t see the Fed making a move under threat of a shutdown.

Concerns over China’s slowing economy that sent global stock and commodity markets on a recent free fall are heightened by the opacity and conflicting signals from the country’s political leadership and its central bank.

After Amazon decided to launch its Prime Now services in Seattle recently, the e-commerce giant enabled its fast-paced delivery services to users, allowing them to shop from home and receive a range of items within one hour.