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Woolworths will launch a new advertising campaign in the next few months after reporting a 12.5 per cent profit slump – its first full-year net profit drop in 19 years.

A Delaware judge on Thursday said David Murdock, the billionaire chief executive of Dole Food Co, is liable to shareholders for $148.2 million of damages for having shortchanged them when he took the fruit and vegetable producer private in 2013.

Later in the morning, the bank admitted it had a problem with BACS payments.

U.S. crude’s front-month contract was down 25 cents at $39.06 a barrel by 12:03 p.m. EDT.

On Wednesday, a reporter and a camera man for local Virginia station WDBJ7 were slain while conducting an interview on camera. President Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, called for additional gun control measures in the wake of the shooting.

In a filing with the London Stock Exchange, bwin.party said “key aspects of GVC’s proposal have now been addressed to bwin.party’s satisfaction”.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union, including drivers and guards, walked out for 24 hours on Sunday and plan to do so again for 72 hours from Saturday over the Bank Holiday weekend.

This was despite Chinese stocks tumbling again this morning – plunging more than 7%, and hitting their lowest level in eight months.

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.

Together with Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow and Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, and with the additional support of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Don Cheadle as James Rhodes/War Machine, Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill and Stellan Skarsgård as Erik Selvig, the team must...

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.