Retail giant Walmart Stores, Inc. on Friday announced plans to close 269 stores and lay off 16,000 employees, including 6,000 of them outside the U.S. In a news release, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company said it would close its 154 stores in the U.S. and 115 others abroad. The company is shutting down 60 stores in Brazil, a market in which […]
» Read moreBurkina Faso and French forces killed a fourth extremist on Saturday after freeing 126 people and killing three other attackers to end the seizure of a luxury hotel by al-Qaeda-linked militants, Burkina Faso officials said. In addition to the extremists, at least 23 people were killed in the attack at the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou, the capital, President Roch Marc […]
» Read moreFacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has decided to donate $31 million in company stock to charity, days after her boss Mark Zuckerberg pledged to give away 99 per cent of his shares. Ms Sanderberg, 46, donated 290,000 shares in Facebook at “a market value of roughly $31 million” to various charities, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. The shares […]
» Read moreThe Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for the Baghdad mall attack that killed 18 people on Monday. The IS statement, posted online shortly after the attack, said four IS fighters carried it out and warned of “worse” to come. Iraqi officials say the attack was carried out by seven men. The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled Gunmen […]
» Read moreAround 65 people were killed when a truck bomb hit a police training centre in the Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, a hospital source said. Dozens more were injured in the attack, which happened as hundreds of recruits were gathering for a graduation ceremony.
» Read moreThe world’s largest blue star sapphire, weighing 1404.49 carets and valued at an astonishing $100 million, has been found in a mine in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan gemmologists say the sapphire was found in the city of Ratnapura, in southern Sri Lanka, which is known as the ’City of Gems.’ It has now been valued at $100 million with estimates […]
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