Business

Monkey business!

A row has been going on about just who owns the copyright on a rather unusual selfie. It's of a crested black macaque who took a snap of herself with a British photographer's camera in Indonesia. The photographer wants Wikipedia to remove the picture from its website - but the Wikimedia Foundation wh..
Jul 12,2015

Illegal trade in elephants threatens their survival

A new report says that wild Asian elephants are being held in horrific conditions in Myanmar, also known as Burma, as smugglers try to resume a money-making trade to the tourist camps of Thailand. The study, from Traffic, the wildlife trade monitoring network, says that young elephants are being brut..
Jul 12,2015

Cocaine in supermarket bananas

In Portugal, around 200 bags of cocaine have been found in boxes of bananas on sale in supermarkets around the country. Police say they're hoping that the discovery will help them find those involved in bringing drugs from Colombia to Europe. ..
Jul 12,2015

France to train Russian sailors

Four hundred Russian sailors have arrived in France to train on two warships that the French government is selling to the Russian navy. President Francois Hollande has refused to cancel the sale of these ships despite criticism from the United States and other allies. ..
Jul 12,2015

Mud-pack for the Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal, India's most famous monument, is to be given a mud-pack treatment to clean its white marble walls of yellow stains caused by pollution. It'll be the fourth time this method has been used to clean the seventeenth-century tomb. ..
Jul 12,2015

Vatican bank 'three trillion euro fraud' stopped

Two men carrying a briefcase filled with fake bonds have been arrested by Vatican police after they tried to gain access to the Vatican bank. They were dressed in business suits and claimed to have an appointment with bank officials, but they were handed over to Italian police after questioning by Va..
Jul 12,2015

Rubbish in Rio

Rio de Janeiro authorities and street cleaners say they have reached a new agreement to end an eight-day strike which has left tonnes of rubbish on the streets of the Brazilian city. The strike by street sweepers had led to piles of rubbish and a bad smell on the street during carnival week...
Jul 12,2015

China is the biggest source of tourists

New figures from China show that the country has consolidated its position as the world's biggest source of tourists. A total of 97 million Chinese tourists travelled abroad in 2013, according to China's National Tourism Administration...
Jul 12,2015

Fed scales back stimulus effort

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, says it will next month begin scaling back a key strategy to stimulate the economy because of a stronger jobs market. The Fed said that from January it would reduce its spending on US government bonds by $10bn a month...
Jul 10,2015

Ireland exits bailout programme

Ireland was one of the countries most hit by the Eurozone's financial crisis. Europe and the International Monetary Fund stepped in with loans to the Irish government worth totalling 67.5bn euros. Now, three years on, the bailout is formally over and Ireland will have to meet its borrowing needs in t..
Jul 10,2015