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Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GkXXVa

The industry could contribute almost a fifth of the global total of CO2 by 2050 but some nations resist targets. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E8bv0m

The transport secretary wants the UK's three biggest motorway service station operators investigated. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GjlzJO

Unions want the bid for Britain's biggest engineering firm to be blocked on national security grounds. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2uujdTa

The firm denies it believes that growth at all costs is "good" even if it leads to deaths. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2IfBLZc

Cathay Pacific changes its skirts-only policy, in place since 1946, after growing union pressure. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GWodm0

Holidaymakers should now be safer from hidden charges when hiring a car from a UK firm, authorities say. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pPuSXJ

Passengers are sending bailiffs in to airlines - including EasyJet - to get compensation. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GlxdDW

Heather Cho returns to take control of a hotel network, after her high-profile tantrum three years ago. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pS1rUU

Shares in Baidu's iQiyi streaming platform fell below their opening price on Wall Street's Nasdaq. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GqGXJq

The actress fails to convince judges that a character in Grand Theft Auto V was based on her. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E77Wrg

Shareholders back an £8bn offer after a bitter fight for control of Britain's biggest engineering firm. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GIqKCq

Apple has updated iOS, MacOS and tvOS to let people know when their personal data will be collected. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2J5zcdu

Volkswagen says it will buy back new or nearly new diesel cars affected by diesel bans in German cities from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GVy4sb

As well as its tax record, President Trump launches into Amazon for destroying retail jobs. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2IeX65d

The US had sued the bank for alleged fraud over the sale of mortgage-backed securities. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2J1xXfv

Conviviality, which owns Bargain Booze and Wine Rack, announces plans to file for administration. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GCMcZx

Women working at Facebook in the UK are paid bonuses worth less than 60% of those their male colleagues receive. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E2xGoT

Households became net borrowers last year for the first time since data began to be collected in 1987. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pKI1By

The government is to try to sell a 76% stake in the airline in a long-awaited privatisation. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pNU8O2

Liam Fox says he hopes to have the arrangements with 70 countries in place by the end of 2020. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GXFMlK

MPs and landlords are at loggerheads over the acceptable level of deposits demanded of tenants in England. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2J3cS4n

The Nationwide building society says prices grew at an annual rate of 2.1%. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GnLiNu

The deal is just one corporate sponsorship to collapse amid Australian cricket's ball-tampering scandal. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pMT1OO

Volkswagen has been storing hundreds of thousands of cars after the diesel emissions scandal. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2pSWv1h

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how flip-flops became a Million Dollar Idea. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2J6za56

Samsonite is perhaps the world's best-known luggage brand. Chief executive Ramesh Tainwala explains why online shopping is the biggest threat and opportunity to his business. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2uvV1Q4

President Donald Trump told Russia's Vladimir Putin that if the two countries from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gm1e2w

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Hundreds more Syrian rebels and civilians prepared Friday to leave Eastern Ghouta under a negotiated withdrawal, as Russia unilaterally announced a similar deal to empty the final pocket of the battered enclave. The former rebel bastion on the outskirts of Damascus has been drained by a nearly six-week Syrian government assault and two evacuation deals brokered by regime ally Moscow. Under such agreements, rebels agree to hand over territory in exchange for safe passage for them and civilians to opposition-held northwest Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GXkbK5

A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbour five times in the head because he thought he was beating his dog. Michael Kourosh Sadeghi, 32, was arrested for allegedly killing his 42-year-old Denver neighbour, Dustin Schmidt, after an incident in which he is said to have walked into his back yard and unloaded five shots into the back of the neighbour's head. Vicki Branaghan,— the victim's fiancee — who said she was in the backyard at the time, told the Denver Post that the gun shots followed after Mr Schmidt swatted his dog for trying to jump over their fence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GkgrFs

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a campaign to end closed-door, one-on-one meetings between Mormon lay leaders and youth (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IimpDo

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei. Last year, China established relations with Panama, which had for decades been a steadfast Taiwan ally, in a major diplomatic coup for Beijing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E85QaK

Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises “difficult and serious” issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD5Jcn

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A Utah man tied up two teenagers, stabbed them to death, and dumped their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft before they were reported missing nearly three months ago, police said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IkAj86

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly four decades, died Thursday in Southern California. He was 87. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pTiHZ9

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that Russian and U.S. relations were deteriorating into a situation "similar, to a large extent, to what we lived during the Cold War" and called for safeguards to be put in place. Just days after the United States announced it would expel 12 Russian U.N. diplomats over a nerve agent attack in Britain, Guterres called for Washington and Moscow to re-establish lines of communication aimed at preventing any escalation of tensions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GoSQiK

In a rambling speech billed as a curtain-raiser for his $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure, President Trump veered off topic numerous times, at one point chiding his predecessor for leaving him a high number of court vacancies.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6VLhN

In the face of the chaos and confusion that come with raising a family today, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6ue0b

SACRAMENTO, Calif. ― Hundreds of mourners gathered in California's capital on from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GCFaEp

Palestinians in Gaza pitched tents near the volatile border with Israel on Thursday ahead of a six-week protest camp under the gaze of wary Israeli soldiers. The protest is dubbed "The Great March of Return" and has the backing of the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas. It comes amid rising tensions as the United States prepares to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IeZad9

Two pilots flying different aircraft above Arizona have reported close encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO). ABC News obtained an audio clip of a conversation between the two pilots and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Centre. “OK, something did,” says the pilot of the Learjet plane. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAWVii

A boy who hugged a cop in a photo that went viral amid national unrest over from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uvA0VR

Russia’s massive 200-ton RS-28 Sarmat heavy liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile is set to become operational by 2021. “Under the government-run program for armaments extending till 2027 Sarmat is to be produced serially starting from 2020,” a defense industry source told the TASS news agency. The weapon does not appear to have started testing yet, but the comments from the TASS source appear to somewhat contradict previous comments from other Russian officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pXANdB

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — About 30 dogs are believed to have died in an early morning fire Friday at a boarding kennel in western Michigan, leaving owners of the animals and the facility devastated. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pRDJZ7

Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks. Tesla also said vehicle logs from the accident showed no action had been taken by the driver soon before the crash and that he had received earlier warnings to put his hands on the wheel. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAqBwi

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Noor Salman, the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter, was from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6OcaZ

Two British men accused of being in the Islamic State 'Beatles' gang say they will not get a fair trial. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2E8q1Fm

Britain's most senior police officer says social media "revs people up" and leads to stabbings and murders. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pTTde8

The Nobel Peace Prize winner visits the Pakistani area where Taliban militants tried to kill her. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pUEq30

David Warner says he is "resigned to the fact" he may never play for Australia again after his part in the ball-tampering scandal. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Gl3paA

Stansted Airport expects to "operate as normal" after a bus fire caused all flights to be cancelled. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GDHUBp

Palestinian officials say 16 people were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers on Friday. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GE5PR4

Schools are still struggling with budget cuts, despite government reassurance, it is claimed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2uwf69a

The private service for the visionary scientist will be held at the university church in Cambridge. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pShSQi

Former England and Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins is in a critical condition in a London hospital. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pUdOzb

Prince Laurent defended his allowance as "the price of my life, which is largely behind me now". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2J5GdLg

When she's on the train, Liz Atkin spends the journey sketching with charcoal. She gives her drawings away to fellow passengers for free, as a form of therapy. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GYCzC9

A state department proposal could require visa applicants to detail all their social media handles. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pRZZRG

Saturday's front pages lead with the latest on Russia's row with the West and the public sector gender pay gap. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2IfNQgY

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GlCMlY

These hoaxers were bold, dedicated, and didn't wait for 1 April. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2E8yYOR

The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks to the BBC about abuse on social media, and whether she wants to enter politics. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pQz8Gl

Anna Marie Whitlock Henry played the flute while surgeons operated on her. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pRuat0

A San Francisco cop was lucky to survive a shootout in a hairdresser's that left him and four civilians wounded, and the gunman dead. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GJtLTg

Long-standing Today programme presenter is set to move to the World at One. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GjGegN

Emanuel Santos creates a second statue one year on to silence critics who ridiculed his work. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pTIeBo

The Easter treat, which is a "bit hard", dates back to 1903 and has been passed through generations. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pQBunW

Russia's President Putin claims it can penetrate any defence shield. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2E7nxHd

A collie makes an emotional final visit to its terminally-ill owner's hospital bedside hours before he passes away. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GEuipj

Malcolm Corden was not happy with Mark Kermode calling his son "appallingly irritating". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pWS9Xd

Parents in Sierra Leone have been warned to take extra care of their children this election period as it's feared they could be ritually killed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pRCk4D

How do the families of generals who sent men into battle commemorate World War One? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2pSLT2l

Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GkXXVa

The Children's Commissioner said schools in the north of England were falling behind. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2GoQ5OF

It's been shrinking fast, but could a plan to divert water to one of Africa's largest lakes stop it disappearing? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2IiMF06

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday, a stance that may put him at odds with U.S. military officials who see the fight against Islamic State as nowhere near complete. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GoPReo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries on Friday and said it reserved the right to take action against four other nations in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IhR1oD

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - In the Pakistani hometown of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, reminders are frequent of the daughter of scenic northwestern Swat Valley who survived a gun attack – and so are memories of harsh rule by the Taliban. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IkxxzI

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured on Friday by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2E4BZQt

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis led Roman Catholics in Good Friday services under tight security, urging people, including ministers of his Church, to rediscover the capacity to feel shame for their role in the world's ills. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J2DEtz

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro along with more than 50 Venezuelan nationals are considered "high risk" for laundering money and financing terrorism, according to an advisory issued by Panama's economy and finance ministry. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pRS8DG

How do the families of generals who sent men into battle commemorate World War One? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2pSLT2l

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will prosecute a former senior provincial official for corruption after an investigation found he illegally accepted gifts and abused his power, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GHZN1H