International

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Bayer-Monsanto loses US$ 2bn glyphosate law suit in California

  

  A jury in California on Monday ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay more than US$2 billion damages to a couple who sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brexit negotiator travels to Brussels, but both May and Labour leader Corbyn are questioned by their parties

  

  The British prime minister's chief Brexit negotiator, Olly Robbins, is travelling to Brussels to discuss changes to the political declaration on the UK's future relationship with the EU. The move is intended to meet a key Labour demand in cross-party talks to break the deadlock.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's Real slides past 4.00 to the US dollar as China/US trade dispute escalates

  

  Brazil’s Real weakened past 4.00 per dollar for the first time in three weeks on Monday as an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war sent emerging markets reeling and a weekly snapshot of domestic growth forecasts fell to a new 2019 low.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Ford assets in Brazil to be acquired by Chinese businesspeople

  

  The founder of Brazilian automaker CAOA said on Monday he is negotiating with Chinese business executives to make a joint acquisition of a Ford Motor Co plant near Sao Paulo.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Record diver detects plastic bag at the deepest place on Earth

  

  On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: trash.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Inequalities in UK threatening democracy, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

  

  Inequalities in pay and opportunities in the UK are becoming so extreme they are threatening democracy, an Institute for Fiscal Studies study has said. The think tank warns of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in “deaths of despair”, such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2019 - 09:07 UTC

  Venezuela receives 71 tons of medical supplies from China

  

  A second airplane from China carrying medical supplies including medicine arrived in Venezuela on Monday as part of a “humanitarian technical” cooperation agreement between President Nicolas Maduro's government and the Asian powerhouse.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 12:41 UTC

  Ajax Win Dutch Premier Division Title

  

  By Patrick Watts in the Netherlands.- In a dramatic weekend of football Ajax Amsterdam recovered from their mid-week heart-breaking last seconds defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League to clinch the Dutch Premier Division title after trouncing Utrecht 4-1, before 53,520 supporters, in the Johann Cruijff stadium in Amsterdam.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Trade talks with Beijing escalate: China will not swallow any “bitter fruit” that harms its interests

  

  The United States and China appeared at a deadlock over trade negotiations on Sunday as Washington demanded promises of concrete changes to Chinese law and Beijing said it would not swallow any “bitter fruit” that harmed its interests.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  A cardinal to the rescue of occupants of a property without power or hot water

  

  A cardinal who conducts acts of charity for Pope Francis has restored power for hundreds of people in a building in Rome after climbing down a manhole and flipping a switch, local media report.