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Prosecutors in China charge multiple funeral directors with selling more than 4,000 corpses to two major medical companies over several decades. Police seized 18 tonnes of bones and 34,000 semi-finished products, with the thieves having earned around 380 million yuan (US$53 million) before they were arrested.
2024-08-9

China bans the use of iPhones for government officials resulting in the market value of Apple Inc. stock declining by $200 billion in the past two days.
2023-09-7

The exchange rate between the euro and the United States dollar drops to 0.9928, the lowest in 20 years.
2022-08-22

"The Mail on Sunday" reports that British Chancellor Rishi Sunak plans to abolish an Internet tax expected to raise £500 million ($654M) a year. The tax was introduced in April 2020 and could reportedly be an impediment to a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States.
2020-08-23

An Italian court orders former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on April 4 on charges of allegedly bribing witnesses with €10 million (US$11 million) in order to silence them over accusations he paid for sex with young women.
2017-01-28

Following the Brexit vote and the subsequent drop in the exchange rate of the British pound to U.S. dollar, the FTSE 100 Index reaches an all-time intra-day high of 7,129.
2016-10-11

The Government of Japan intervenes to reduce the exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the United States dollar after the yen reached record highs.
2011-10-31

BHP Billiton buys U.S. based petroleum company Petrohawk for $12 billion.
2011-07-15

British Airways reports a half-year profit of £158m, the first in two years.
2010-10-29

Gabon signs over US$4 billion of contracts with Indian and Singaporean companies for infrastructure projects, on the eve of the country's 50th anniversary since independence.
2010-08-14