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Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.

BYD Q3 profit down 33%

This was a 33% year-on-year decrease.
  • Former culture minister Nadine Dorries announced her intention to resign 11 weeks ago but had remained as member of parliament while she investigated why she was not given a seat in the upper house of parliament. In her letter, which she released on social media, Dorries accused Sunak of leading...
  • Facing criticism, Rishi Sunak reverses his decision to skip COP27 in Egypt

    A U-turn was hinted at on Tuesday when his spokesman said the decision was "under review" and after reports that Boris Johnson would attend.
  • Boris Johnson drops out of race for UK PM

    Declaring an end to his bid for the UK top job, former UK PM Boris Johnson said that he had reached the decision reluctantly after recognizing he would not be able to lead "a united party in parliament." He had cut short a Caribbean holiday to return to Britain to...
  • UK’s Johnson, Sunak meet amid race for Tory leadership

    Weeks after leaving office, former prime minister Boris Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday, aimed to launch an audacious political comeback. Johnson met with Rishi Sunak to discuss the race, as the feuding pair who once headed Britain's government were poised to battle for the leadership of their fractured...
  • Liz Truss becomes new UK PM, Johnson pledges support

    She faces a daunting to-do list, with the UK in the grip of its worst economic crisis in decades, with double-digit inflation and skyrocketing gas and electricity bills. Truss, who touts herself as a free-market liberal, has promised tax cuts to stimulate growth, despite warnings that greater borrowing could make...
  • Biggest tax cut in a decade will save British workers millions: Johnson

    Speaking at the NATO summit in Madrid, Johnson said the "very, very tight labor market" and difficult "balance of our energy mix" add to inflationary pressures.
  • Boris Johnson survives no-confidence vote by 211/148

    The vote just over two years after he won a landslide general election victory was brought after a string of scandals that have left the Tory party's standing in tatters.
  • Stock markets up globally as China eases lockdown

    Adding to the upbeat mood were comments from US commerce chief Gina Raimondo that she was considering lifting tariffs on some goods from China to help in the battle against inflation.
  • British PM Boris Johnson to travel to UAE after president’s death

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fly to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to pay his condolences following the death of President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Downing Street said. Johnson's visit will also "reinforce the close bond between the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates," the statement said.
  • Uneasy NATO wait ahead for Finland and Sweden

    Once a country has decided to apply for NATO membership, the 30 members of the alliance must agree unanimously to extend a formal invitation, which is followed by membership negotiations. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said his country Finland could become a full member of NATO by October.
  • Civilians flee east Ukraine as Boris Johnson visits Kyiv

    Evacuations resumed on Saturday from Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 52 people at a railway station a day earlier, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the latest Western leader to visit Kyiv.
  • Japan presses UAE to pump more oil as Ukraine war spikes prices

    The plea by Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi came during meetings with Emirati officials which coincided with a visit by Germany's economy minister.
  • COP26 leaders vow new drive to save forests

    The summit's chair, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the agreement on deforestation was pivotal to the overarching ambition of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius. "These great teeming ecosystems –- these cathedrals of nature -- are the lungs of our planet," he was expected to say in Glasgow,...
  • Sabic to invest $1.37bn in UK

    The investment is expected to improve operations at a UK plant.
  • UAE, UK partner to counter illicit financial flows

    The partnership offers a platform to build a stronger and more enduring strategic partnership, advancing the priorities laid out in the UK’s Integrated Review and the UAE’s National Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Strategy. An annual meeting between the Home Secretary and the UAE Minister of State will ensure...
  • UK to build new ‘national flagship’ to promote post-Brexit trade

    The ship will provide a global platform for trade negotiations and British businesses' products The ship's construction likely to begin in 2022 and be completed within 4 years Britain will build what it is calling a new "national flagship" vessel to host trade events and promote its post-Brexit interests around...