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Boris Johnson's proposal to hold a snap election Oct. 15 has been rejected by MPs in a major setback for the UK prime minister.  His opposition, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said his party will agree to a snap election if a bill preventing a no-deal Brexit is passed.  MPs will now...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has let hundreds of European contractors go who listened to Siri recordings to check for errors, according to The Guardian. The company laid off 300 contractors in Cork, Ireland alone, according to the report.  Apple shares were trading at $204.67 at...

On June 3, U.K.’s most high-profile fund managers, Neil Woodford’s £3.75-billion ($4.55 billion) LF Woodford Equity Income Fund, was suspended as the fund manager struggled to free up cash to pay investors looking to get their money out. What Woodford...

Iranian media said Friday that the country's Revolutionary Guard seized a British-flagged oil tanker. The ship's owners said it was unreachable and appeared headed toward Iran, sending crude oil prices higher.  Owners of the Stena Impero said the ship unexpectedly changed course and...

British fashion retailer Asos PLC/ADR (OTC: ASOMY) shares are down 44 percent since Friday after the company released a profit warning. Asos CEO Nick Beighton said the drop is due to an staggering amount of discounting items, according to The Guardian.  “In fashion we are seeing an...

"Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behavior." -Cecelia Ahern Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., although recent estimates indicate it may now be the third most common cause of death, behind heart disease...

Women endure violence, discrimination, harassment and chauvinism in Latin America. However, women's rights movements are slowly advancing under the #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneLess) banner. Interestingly, and sadly, this trend has also been reflected in the region’s politics as an increasing...

The British pound gained more than 1 percent in value against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after a ruling will force the U.K. parliament to hold a vote before the official process of Brexit can commence. The outcome of the Brexit vote in late June was clear: The people voted to leave the European...

The Irish government voted on Wednesday to appeal the $14.5 billion tax bill the European Union says Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) owes the state of Ireland. The EU ruled in late August that Ireland provided Apple with tax benefits, which goes against its rules that govern all nations. Ireland...

The British pound traded at a new post-Brexit low on Tuesday after the country's central bank stepped in to help support the now fragile economy and uncertain outlook. The Bank of England said on Tuesday it will lower the amount of capital that the country's banks are required to hold in reserve....

George Soros, the multi-billionaire investor, has a dire warning for the pro-Brexit folks: you will be poorer, and he will likely be richer if Britain separates from the European Union. Soros wrote an article on The Guardian that British voters are "grossly underestimating" the costs of leaving the...

The United States' top 500 chief executive officers took home an average of $12.4 million last year, and their earnings were approximately 340 times higher than the average worker's wages last year, according to a new report from AFL-CIO. 335:1 According to the report, production and nonsupervisory...

Anatole Kaletsky, an economist and journalist wrote an op-ed in The Guardian which argued that western oil firms must "innovate or die." According to Kaletsky, western oil companies have already announced investment reductions of around $200 billion throughout 2015 amid low oil prices...