According to a fresh report by Human Rights Watch, Tanzania has had a massive problem with child labor in the African nation’s gold mines. The international watchdog spoke of brutal exploitation and sexual abuse. Human...
Dairy giant Fonterra has said its milk products at the center of a global contamination scare did not contain a bacteria that could cause botulism. The company said the products posed no food safety threat...
In the fifth-largest biotech deal in history, Amgen has agreed to buy cancer drug maker Onyx Pharmaceuticals. As part of the deal, Amgen will gain revenue from two of Bayer’s drugs, developed in partnership. The...
You blow your nose in a tissue and the tissue indicates you’ve got the flu. Sounds like science fiction? Stuff like this always does. But German researchers are designing a “lab in a hankie.” It’s...
A Paris court has begun hearing evidence in a dispute between German carmaker Daimler and France over the use of an EU-banned car refrigerant. Daimler wants an injunction against a French sales ban of its...
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer has announced he’d step down as the company’s CEO within the next 12 months. He spoke of a deep restructuring of the firm that needed longer-term supervision and management. Steve Ballmer...
The NASDAQ stock exchange’s operators have said they will look into a glitch that halted Wall Street trading. The failure was something of an embarrassment for the index, which hosts some of technology’s biggest names....
Japan’s nuclear watchdog fears that the leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant could be a sign of a much wider problem. The plant was the scene of one of the worst nuclear...
A new residential real estate giant is in the making in Germany’s housing market. Deutsche Wohnen has made a bid for its rival GSW to form the second largest housing company in the country. Deutsche...
International corporations vie to build the next generation of capsules that will ferry people and material to space. One of them could hold up to seven people – and not all of them will necessarily...
Fresh data from the EU’s statistics office have shown that the debt-stricken eurozone has had no problems with keeping inflation in the bloc at a reasonably low level. Individual member states stand out, however. The...
As people continue replacing the gadgets they carry around, landfills threaten to overflow with outdated electronics. An Italian consortium has a way to slow down the overload with trash bins that keep the waste sorted....
