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Image copyright Reuters Huawei’s next flagship smartphone will not come with Google’s popular apps including Maps and YouTube. Google confirmed that due to a US government ban on sales to Huawei, it could not license its apps to the Chinese smartphone giant. It also means the next Huawei phone will not have access to the […]

Image copyright EPA Image caption Park Geun-hye was South Korea’s first female president South Korea’s top court has set aside part of jailed former President Park Geun-hye’s conviction and ordered a retrial. The court said separate verdicts should have been reached on the bribery allegations against her and sent the case back to a lower

Image copyright Bret Fitzgerald Shares in software giant Micro Focus International have fallen 22% after it said sales would be worse this year than expected. The FTSE 100-listed firm had already warned in March revenue would be 4% to 6% lower for the year to 31 October. It now says sales will be 6% to

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Vegan burgers are now a fixture on many restaurant menus People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government’s chief environment scientist has warned. Prof Sir Ian Boyd said the public

When PJ Farr left the army he started UK Connect, providing internet services to the building industry – enabling architects, engineers and builders to communicate rapidly using broadband services on construction sites. Nowadays it is a multi-million pound company. But when he was tempted to stray outside this niche, he says he found himself “in

Image copyright PA Media Image caption An FCA ad campaign featuring an image of Arnold Schwarzenegger has urged consumers to make claims before the deadline There are only hours left to make a claim for mis-sold payment protection insurance, as one of the UK’s biggest financial scandals draws to a close. Billions of pounds has

Image copyright Getty Images Rising fears about the health of the global economy have prompted talk of recession, spreading anxiety about jobs and growth. The US-China trade war is casting a shadow over the world economy and warning signs of a looming downturn have flashed on financial markets. Recession poses no immediate threat to the

Image copyright Getty Images US officials have not granted any licences to trade with blacklisted Chinese firm Huawei, despite receiving more than 130 requests, Reuters says. The US restricted companies from selling to the electronics giant in May, citing national security concerns, which have been dismissed by Huawei. President Donald Trump said last month that

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Apple’s Siri virtual assistant can respond to spoken queries and commands Apple has apologised following revelations that it paid third-party workers to listen to voice recordings of Siri users. The practice known as “grading” has been used by several tech firms as a way of improving the quality of

Image caption The site at Mill Bay in Eday used to be the island’s fishing harbour A salmon farm in Orkney is planning to build a small development of houses to stop workers leaving their jobs. Phil Boardman, Scottish Sea Farms manager in Eday, says trained staff have left because “we didn’t have anywhere for