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U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called for China to play “a special role” in strengthening sanctions against North Korea to punish it for its latest nuclear test in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

While Netflix said in October that it expected to add 1.65 million new subscribers domestically, it ended up falling short with 1.56 million.

Apple, the maker of iPad and iPhone, has sought permission from the government to open single brand retail stores and also enter the e-commerce business in the country. The US tech giant’s move stems from the government’s liberalisation of foreign direct investment...

Volkswagen’s plan to clean up its 2.0-liter diesel-powered cars is “incomplete, substantially deficient and falls far short of meeting the legal requirements”, the California Air Resources Board said today.

Mr Van Beurden said: “Bold, strategic moves shape our industry”.

It is not all doom and gloom for the company if you consider that the server division is expected to report growth, as it has had an encouraging quarter due to the increased demand for enterprise server.

“This report demonstrates the importance of triggering a revolution in the plastics industrial ecosystem”, Dominic Waughray of the World Economic Forum said in a statement, “and is a first step to showing how to transform the way plastics move through our...

In the currency market, the USA dollar is trading in the mid 117 yen-range on Wednesday, down from Tuesday’s close in the upper 117-yen range in Tokyo.

Asian stock prices tumbled Wednesday after the IMF’s lower growth forecast added to anxiety over Wall Street turbulence and a weaker Chinese economy. The pain was felt widely with Australian stocks down 1.3 per cent and South Korea off 2.3 per cent. Chinese markets fared...

Oil markets will face oversupply of at least one million barrels a day for the third year in a row, according to a report by energy forecaster the IEA.

In an effort to fortify its foothold in the ride-sharing sector, General Motors has purchased San Francisco-based Sidecar Technologies Inc. and most of its assets.

The West Australian couple, aged in their 80s, moved to Burkina Faso in 1972 to set up the clinic in the town of Djibo in the country’s north. And when they came out they started a fire.

Customers at the store Friday morning, though, said they would shift their shopping to other Wal-Marts.

“In our view, today may not be the end of closures”. He added that closing stores was never easy, but it is a necessary thing to do in order to maintain the company positioned for its future.

The picturesque ME town of Camden is reeling from the arrest of “American Pie” singer Don McLean, a fixture in the community.