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Government defends Seaborne after it uses terms apparently intended for a takeaway food firm. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2sgYEpn

The iPhone maker's shares fell sharply on Thursday in the wake of its warning over China sales. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2CLr54K

Two leading US cancer drug companies announce a blockbuster tie-up valued at more than $74bn. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2R3jqYh

Petrol stations are being accused again of ripping off motorists by increasing their profit margins. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2CL9tWG

Train delays across Great Britain added up to a total of 32 years in the 12 months to October 2018. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2ArmMdl

The BBC's Aaron Heslehurst explains how the X-ray became a million dollar idea. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2SCZ7O0

BBC News asked shoppers in Nottingham if they spent more or less in the run-up to Christmas 2018. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2F5PIvl

Data - how it is created, stored, analysed and applied - will be a key theme in 2019, experts think. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2TqwsLU

Hackers have posted personal data from hundreds of German politicians from major parties, including credit card details and mobile phone numbers, ARD TV said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2Ru9ruj

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said on Friday he told his South Korean counterpart he wants Seoul to make a firm response in line with international law on South Korea's claim against a Japanese company over wartime forced labor. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2s8EBJq

India's ruling and opposition parties condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's comments this week mocking New Delhi's role in war-torn Afghanistan, where the South Asian country has invested billion of dollars in economic projects and military training. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2R8A4pd

Thailand's first tropical storm in three decades, packing winds of up to 80 kph (50 mph), is expected to make landfall on Friday evening, sending thousands of people flocking to shelter inland and shutting down two major airports. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2COXV4I

Indonesia will temporarily stop sending students to universities in Taiwan, the foreign ministry said on Friday, after it asked Taipei to investigate media reports that up to 300 students were being forced to work in factories. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2COGv8b

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday he intends to push forward towards a World War Two peace treaty with Russia, which has been stymied for decades by a territorial row, during a summit in Russia later this month. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2TuhJzS

India's Supreme Court will name a panel on Thursday to hear arguments over a controversial plan to build a Hindu temple on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2LPoZnj

When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used his New Year speech to highlight coal as a "primary front" in developing the economy, he was making a case for what analysts see as a flawed but key resource on which his country increasingly relies. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2TuKQmH

China has warned the country's pork industry that covering up cases of African swine fever is a crime, days after a dead pig was found on a Taiwanese beach prompting Taipei to claim Beijing was not sharing accurate information on the disease. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2s7uiFx

Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno on Thursday asked the country's prosecutor to probe $4.9 billion of oil-related infrastructure projects, alleging that the OPEC nation's money was looted during the decade-long tenure of his leftist predecessor. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2QjDnER

Workers at Amazon's biggest warehouse in Spain started a two-day strike on Thursday just ahead of a gift-giving feast day, as part of a long-running campaign for better pay and conditions. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2s7HkTF

Canada said on Thursday that 13 of its citizens have been detained in China since Huawei Technologies Co [HWT.UL] Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested last month in Vancouver at the request of the United States. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2RbBrUb

Three-quarters of French people are unhappy with the way President Emmanuel Macron and his government are running the country, with a majority keen to see more measures to boost household incomes, a poll showed on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://reut.rs/2GTL3y6