Net profit for the first nine months was up to 3.082 billion euros ($3.5 billion) as opposed to 396 million euros last year and 1.66 billion in 2019, the world's number two brewer said in a statement. But the profits were boosted by an exceptional ...

The company, like many other manufacturers, has seen production hobbled by supply chain problems, including a global shortage of semiconductors that are key elements in a range of electronics and appliances. Electrolux reported a net profit of 1.14...

Owner Terry O'Neill has plenty of time between serving drinks and swapping banter with regulars to reflect on the damage Covid-19 has done to business. "It's never going to come back to what it was. We were doing 150 lunches. We're down to 40," say...

The 13-member "Presidential Task Force for One Country, One Law" has no representatives from the Tamil ethnic minority but does contain four Muslims, the country's second-largest minority. There are no women on the committee. The panel was announce...

The Chinese capital will in February become the first host of a Summer and Winter Games, and last week welcomed the Olympic flame with a low-key ceremony. Case numbers remain relatively low in China, with only three reported in Beijing on Wednesday...

Tsuboi was on his way to engineering school in 1945 when the first nuclear bomb attack was launched by the United States, turning the bustling metropolis into an inferno. "I suffered burns all over my body," he told AFP in 2016. "Naked, I tried to ...

"It's really coffee, because there is nothing else than coffee material in the product," Heiko Rischer tells AFP, pointing to a dish of light brown powder. His team of researchers at the Finnish technical research institute VTT believe their coffee...

Here is a look at which countries are opening up across the Asia-Pacific region and those staying sealed off from the world. Southeast Asia Thailand will allow vaccinated travellers from 46 countries and territories to enter the kingdom without quar...

In a statement marking 50 years since the UN General Assembly voted to seat Beijing and boot out Taipei, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he regretted that Taiwan had been increasingly excluded on the world stage. "As the internati...

Japanese prosecutors are seeking a two-year prison sentence for Kelly, a former aide to ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn. Kelly, 65, is the only person to stand trial over claims Nissan tried to hide planned payments to auto tycoon Ghosn, who jumped ba...

Three of the children were found Sunday in a Houston apartment, where they had been living alongside the skeletal remains of their brother. The mother's partner, 31-year-old Brian Coulter, was charged with the 2020 murder of the boy, who was eight ...

Zhong, in his late 60s, has seen his fortune swell following the stock listings last year of his Nongfu Spring mineral water and separate pharma company Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, which has tapped into massive demand for Covid-19 test ki...

The Chinese capital will in February become the first host of a Summer and Winter Games, and last week welcomed the Olympic flame with a low-key ceremony. Case numbers remain relatively low in China, and only three were reported in Beijing on Tuesd...

The nationwide protests -- the largest in the five months of conservative President Guillermo Lasso's administration -- were fueled by a 12 percent increase in fuel prices. "We are going to continue to a second day of mobilization and resistance at...

The liquidity crunch at one of China's biggest property developers has hammered investor sentiment and rattled the country's crucial real estate market, while fanning fears of a possible contagion of the wider economy. Last week, the group unexpect...