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Image copyright Getty Images A trade spat between Japan and South Korea threatens to spill beyond their borders, posing potential risks to consumer electronics supplies around the world. The row stems from export restrictions Tokyo imposed on certain industrial materials that Seoul needs to make semiconductors and display screens. Japan has also warned tougher trade […]

Image copyright Malcolm and Charlotte Loubser Image caption Charlotte Loubser says bringing the claim was hard work and very emotional In the early stages of a difficult second pregnancy, Charlotte Loubser had been sick, nauseous and found herself unable get out of bed. The birth of her first child had been troubled and her second

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The AA says UK petrol prices in July are at their highest level since 2014 With tensions rising after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in the Persian Gulf, oil prices have been volatile, sparking fears a jump in petrol prices could lie ahead. The AA warned that prolonged uncertainty

Image copyright Getty Images US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is reportedly prone to dozing off in meetings. He’s not the only one. So is there a trick to stopping those eyelids from suddenly feeling so, so heavy? Meeting-induced sleepiness – it happens to the best of us. Former vice-presidents Joe Biden and Dick Cheney; former

Image copyright Getty Images A decision on whether controversial Chinese firm Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of 5G mobile phone networks in the UK has been postponed. Culture secretary Jeremy Wright said the government is “not yet in a position” to decide what involvement Huawei should have in the 5G network. Mr Wright

Image copyright Getty Images Credit score agency Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) as part of a settlement with a US regulator following a data breach in 2017. The Federal Trade Commission had alleged the Atlanta-based firm failed to take reasonable steps to secure its network. The records of at least 147

Image copyright Getty Images British Airways pilots have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay, threatening a walkout over the key summer holiday period. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (Balpa) said 93% of its members had voted in favour of industrial action. A strike would be likely to cause severe disruption,

Macy’s has quit selling dinner plates that incited controversy online among people who said they advocated a “toxic message” of portion control. Alie Ward, a science correspondent for the CBS series “Innovation Nation,” tweeted an image of the plates on Sunday with a caption asking how to get the dinnerware banned. Her photo showed a

The Brexit deadlock has undermined efforts to boost the UK economy, the chairman of the government’s Industrial Strategy Council has told Newsnight. The council holds the government to account over its industrial strategy. Andy Haldane, who is also chief economist of the Bank of England, said it was “plausible” that one of the “costs of

Image copyright Getty Images Volvo is recalling almost 70,000 cars in the UK over concerns that they could catch fire. It is part of a global recall of more than half a million diesel vehicles that suffer from a fault. The Swedish carmaker said that “in very rare cases” a piece of plastic fitted as