By: Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK – JPMorgan Chase & Co is tearing down walls and moving its San Francisco investment bankers onto “hot desks,” a space-saving layout that has long been a fixture at tech companies, while redesigning offices in Dallas and other cities. A view of the exterior of the JP Morgan Chase & […] Read more
Aaron Campbell is facing a life sentence The identity of the teenage boy who raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has been revealed. The judge who presided over the trial has lifted a ban on naming 16-year-old Aaron Campbell. Media outlets, including the BBC, made a case for reversing the court order which had protected […] Read more
A ninth MP has quit Britain’s opposition Labour party in protest over its handling of the anti-semitism row and Jeremy Corbyn’s lurch to the ‘hard-left’. Ian Austin, MP for Dudley in the West Midlands, told party members in a series of text messages on Friday that he felt “ashamed of the Labour Party under Jeremy […] Read more
Forensic and security officials stand next to the wreckage of a bus after a suicide bomber rammed a car into the bus carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on Thursday, in Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, February 15, 2019 By Hamid Shalizi and Rupam Jain in Kabul Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani […] Read more
Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship. Whitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country. Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were “disappointed” with the decision and were considering […] Read more
The United States is reportedly asking China to address the value of the its currency as part of the trade deal. The move would be aimed at mediating any effort by the Chinese to devalue the yuan to counter American tariffs, people familiar with the situation told Bloomberg News. The Trump administration has insisted that […] Read more
U.S. stock index futures were mixed Wednesday morning, with market participants monitoring the latest round of trade talks between the world’s two largest economies. At around 3:00 a.m. ET, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 19 points lower, indicating a negative open of more than 21 points. Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite […] Read more
By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Haitham Ahmed and Hesham Hajali; Writing by Aidan Lewis and Yousef Saba Police officers control the crowd at the scene where policemen werekilled when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing exploded in Cairo, Egypt, February 18, 2019. Three policemen were killed and five people were wounded, three […] Read more
By Ismail Dilawar , Donna Abu-Nasr , and Alaa Shahine With relations tangled in the U.S. over the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman is enjoying some hospitality elsewhere. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was among friends the moment he entered Pakistani airspace to start a grand tour of Asia. A fleet […] Read more
Wages were up by 3.4% Official figures show a robust UK labour market despite gloom surrounding the manufacturing industry and the high street. By John-Paul Ford Rojas British workers enjoyed their strongest real terms pay rise for more than two years at the end of 2018, official figures show. Regular wages – excluding bonuses – […] Read more
