Новости за 28.08.2020

Worried about the fallout on businesses, the British government is seeking to convince white-collar workers to return to their cubicles. But central London remains largely deserted.

Patriotism, prosperity and public safety are winning themes.

How does one find the best reusable, unisex, cloth face covering? Our panel of five editor-testers rated and ranked a huge variety of masks on style, breathability, fit and material.

The director reflects on the stakes for the first big-budget theatrical release since Covid-19, which has the studio, theater chains and film fans all rolling the dice.

Logistics providers are lining up equipment and transportation capacity as they gear up for the rapid delivery of millions of doses of potential coronavirus vaccines around the world.

Bankruptcy is inevitable. Putting it off only increases the pain for the city’s residents and retirees.

Amid successive global hysterias, says the novelist and exercise fanatic Lionel Shriver, ‘satire can’t keep up.’

Doug McMillon has worked to remake Walmart since becoming its chief executive six years ago. His latest joint bid for TikTok’s U.S. operations would be the farthest departure from the retail giant’s roots, trying to turn the social-media app into a Walmart storefront.

European Union foreign ministers agreed to impose sanctions on senior Belarusian officials in response to what the EU called violent repression against peaceful protesters and opposition figures by the country’s autocratic regime.

A year ago, 181 CEOs signed the Business Roundtable pledge to prioritize customers, employees, suppliers and their communities along with shareholders. Then a pandemic hit.

Herbalife Nutrition Ltd. on Friday agreed in court to settle charges that it provided corrupt payments to government officials in China and falsified its books and records.

A growing dispute between NATO members Greece and Turkey is straining a military alliance that has in recent years been confounded by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly assertive and antagonistic foreign policy.

There’s a reason the Oracle of Omaha is an ultrabillionaire as he turns 90: He grasped the power of compounding at the age of 10. The sooner the rest of us fully understand it, the better off we’ll be.

MGM Resorts International is laying off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as a global travel slowdown impedes the casino industry’s recovery from the ongoing pandemic.

The Pentagon is cutting the U.S. force in Iraq to about 3,500 troops, U.S. officials said, a reduction that President Trump is expected to tout as progress toward winding down what he has described as endless wars.

The agency spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars honing a system of defenses against a pandemic. But the virus moved faster than the WHO, exposing deep flaws in its rules and bureaucracy.

The urban workforce is moving outside after months of isolation, encountering hazards like bird droppings and sudden thunderstorms. “Neck pain, it’s a major problem.”

Papa John’s comparable sales were up 24% year over year in North America and 23% overseas in the four weeks through Aug. 23.

The trans-Atlantic highflier said it would need more cash for the beginning of next year, but cannot easily sell its planes.

There’s more than one recipe for Rasta pasta, the jerk-spiced noodles from Jamaica by way of New York City. Here, 2 classic takes: the vegan version and its creamy cousin.

As China’s recovery from the pandemic continues, the burden of the country’s economic support measures is increasingly falling on its commercial banks.

Beverage giant is offering initial voluntary-separation packages to about 4,000 employees in the U.S., including Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Pandemic life has been largely good for videogame companies. Life should stay good for Zynga, as the rest of the world starts getting back to normal.

The ins and outs of stock splits, from how they work to why they happen less often.

Gap has managed to almost double its e-commerce revenue. What hasn’t changed is the lagging performance at its namesake brand and Banana Republic.