WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Sysco Corp, the nation's largest food distributor, lost a battle with the U.S. government as a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the company could not merge with its biggest competitor, US Foods, without a go-ahead from antitrust enforcers.
Etsy, eBay, Amazon, Wal-Mart and Sears lead corporate movement to drop sales of merchandise featuring the flag. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Etsy, eBay, Amazon, Wal-Mart and Sears lead corporate movement to drop sales of merchandise featuring the flag. Jillian Kitchener reports.
LONDON, June 23 (Reuters) - RSE Ventures is teaming up with Qatar to buy a 35.5 percent stake in the holding company that owns Formula One in a $7 billion-$8 billion deal, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
MADRID (Reuters) - Atletico Madrid have agreed to buy Colombia striker Jackson Martinez from Porto, the player's agent was quoted as saying in Spanish sports daily As on Tuesday.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani could miss the Copa America quarter-final with Chile after his father was involved in a fatal car crash in Uruguay, national team coach Oscar Tabarez said on Tuesday. Luis Cavani knocked down and killed a 19-year old motorcyclist on Monday night, judicial sources in Uruguay said.
A cycling activist has called for cars to be banned from central London's busiest roads, following the tragic death of a cyclist at Bank junction on Monday.
A cycling activist has called for cars to be banned from the busy roads of central London, following the tragic death of a cyclist at Bank junction on Monday.
WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) - Green groups urged the U.S. Department of Interior on Tuesday to revoke the agency's conditional approval of Royal Dutch Shell's 2015 Arctic oil exploration plan, saying it runs counter to established protections for walruses.
June 23 (Reuters) - 3M Co on Tuesday struck a deal to boost its presence in worker protection gear by buying Capital Safety from private equity firm KKR & Co for $1.8 billion, the U.S. diversified manufacturer's largest-ever purchase.
North Korea's Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced two South Koreans to life in prison with labor after finding them guilty of spying for Seoul.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was defending himself in an incident at the University of California, Los Angeles, that led to his arrest, a representative the hip-hop mogul's company said Tuesday.
A man suspected in a series of bias attacks on Asian women in Manhattan was found dead in an apparent suicide, police said Tuesday, just days after he detailed in an online blog a plot to attack the women and then kill...
The Bank of China will cooperate with Italian prosecutors seeking to indict the bank and dozens of Chinese migrants following a massive money-laundering probe reported by The Associated Press earlier this month.
Street protests in the Armenian capital against a hike in electricity prices grew on Tuesday evening, with an estimated 7,000 people joining a second attempt to march toward the presidential residence even after riot...
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market.
June 23 (Reuters) - FullBeauty Brands Inc is exploring a sale or an initial public offering that could value the privately held plus-sized women's and men's fashion retailer at more than $1.5 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.
Twenty-four people were taken into custody and five pounds of marijuana and eight video poker machines seized during a "major weekend sweep," according to the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office.
NEW YORK, June 23 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court in New York said a former Foundry Networks Inc executive's appeal of his insider trading conviction had raised "serious questions," the latest fallout from a landmark 2014 decision setting a higher standard for such cases.
(Reuters Health) - Weight-loss surgery may help reduce urinary incontinence in extremely obese people, a study suggests.
(Reuters Health) - Weight-loss surgery may help reduce urinary incontinence in extremely obese people, a study suggests.
MANCHESTER, England, June 23 (Reuters) - Joe Root's purposeful half-century lifted England to a 56-run victory over New Zealand in a one-off Twenty20 international on Tuesday to end to a riveting contest between the teams in all forms of the game.
Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Confederate flag "shouldn't fly anywhere."
The Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village bar where resistance to a police raid sparked the modern gay rights movement, was made a city landmark Tuesday, the first time a site has been named primarily because of its...
The United States has made it through to the quarterfinals at the Women's World Cup but not unscathed.
