Moderna says more than 40% of participants enrolled for COVID-19 vaccine trial - Reuters
(Reuters) - Drug developer Moderna Inc ( MRNA.O ) on Friday said it has so far enrolled 13,194 participants in the ongoing late-stage 30,000-volunteer U.S. trial testing its
Boeing testing hand-held UV wand to sanitize cockpits, cabins - Reuters
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Friday it is developing a hand-
Apple says 'Fortnite' maker wanted 'side letter' to create own game store - Reuters
(Reuters) - Apple Inc on Friday alleged that Epic Games’ chief executive had asked it for a “side letter” to create its own game store within the iPhone maker’s App Store, which Apple said would have upended the store’s commission-based business model.
US STOCKS-Nasdaq hits record after upbeat U.S. business surveys - Reuters
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* Deere results boost S&P industrials index
* U.S. existing home sales hit 14-year high in July
* U.S. business activity surges to early 2019 levels
* Indexes: Dow +0.55%, S&P 500 +0.24%, Nasdaq +0.30% (Updates to afternoon)
U.S., EU hatch mini-deal to cut lobster, other tariffs - Reuters
BRUSSELS, Aug 21 (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union have hatched a mini-deal to cut imports tariffs on a small range of products, including U.S. lobsters, in a sign of an easing of transatlantic trade tensions.
The two, who have been in dispute over aircraft subsidies and U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of punitive tariffs on EU steel and aluminium, announced the deal in a joint statement on Friday.
“The importance of the deal is that
Breakingviews - Viewsroom: Democrats pitch normalcy first - Reuters
ZURICH (Reuters Breakingviews) - The Democratic National Convention wound up four days of speeches and spectacle with no unforced errors, a broadly appealing economic message and, above all, a call for a restoration of broken norms. Next up, the Republicans. Rob Cox, John Foley and Anna Szymanski recap.
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WHO chief hopes coronavirus pandemic will last less than two years - Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine.
The WHO has always been cautious about
Taylor Swift donates $30,000 to student's UK college fund - Reuters India
LONDON (Reuters) - Taylor Swift has donated more than 23,000 pounds ($30,000) to a Portuguese student living in Britain after she spotted an online page seeking donations to help her fund a maths degree at university.
The Grammy-winning artist said she had been inspired by Vitoria
Ebola outbreak in western DR Congo hits 100 cases - Reuters
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of Congo has infected 100 people as of Friday, killing 43 of them, the World Health Organization said.
The latest outbreak of the virus was declared on June 1 in Mbandaka, a city of 1 million people on the River Congo, just before Congo declared the end of a previous outbreak in the east that had dragged on for two years.
It has spread to remote villages in Equateur province spanning more than 3