U.S. regulators decided Wednesday to allow American fishermen to harvest thousands of pounds of valuable baby eels in the coming years, even as authorities have shuttered the industry in Canada while they grapple with poaching. Baby eels, also called elvers,…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Standard Chartered shares rose on Thursday after reporting better than expected first-quarter results on the back of higher interest rates…
The injectable weight-loss medication Wegovy is available at New City Halstead Pharmacy on April 24, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, which became the most valuable company in Europe last year due…
Elon Musk’s latest cost-cutting victims: Summer interns. Tesla Inc. is rescinding offers just weeks before internships were set to start, prompting aspiring employees to take to LinkedIn to appeal to other employers to take them in. “At 8:46am, I opened…
Colombia is cutting ties with Israel in protest against its war in Gaza, said, Gustavo Petro, the South American nation’s president on Wednesday. “Tomorrow, diplomatic relations with the state of Israel will be broken . . . for having a genocidal president,” Petro, Colombia’s…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at…
Women and men sleep differently, so their sleep disorders shouldn’t be treated the same way, suggests new research that explores the biological sex characteristics of getting shut-eye. Men are more likely to have obstructive sleep apnea, while women are more…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Uber is facing a multimillion-pound lawsuit from London’s black-cab drivers, reviving a long-simmering battle between the US ride-hailing app and…
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Jessica Rinaldi | Reuters The Federal Trade Commission will wave through Exxon Mobil‘s roughly $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources after reaching an agreement with the energy giant, a…
The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons and other birds dying on their Texas farms. Then came word that barn cats — half of them on one farm — had…