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PARIS — France, which has been riven lately by angry protests over income inequality, can now claim to have the world’s richest man and woman: Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of the...

PARIS — Airbus agreed on Thursday to build a second assembly line at its factory in China and was given a green light by Beijing to move ahead with 160 previously announced...

The new front line for Europe’s energy security is a modest office building overlooking a fjord in Stavanger, Norway. Inside, a company called Petoro oversees three dozen of the largest oil and...

The witness list for the Fox News $1.6 billion defamation trial now has more big names than a prime-time lineup.Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch could be forced to testify in person, the judge...

Klaus Teuber, who 28 years ago created The Settlers of Catan, an enduringly popular board game that has spawned college intramural teams and international tournaments, been name-checked on “South Park” and “Parks...

Two different approaches to ChinaPresident Emmanuel Macron of France and Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European Commission, arrived in Beijing on Wednesday with an ambitious agenda. Top of the list:...

Growing up in a working-class family in small-town Oregon, Bing Newcomb would have probably been destined for work in the region’s sawmills or lumberyards after high school except for one thing: He...

Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $8.9 billion to tens of thousands of people who claimed the company’s talcum powder products caused cancer, a proposal that...

Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old start-up founder who was sued by JPMorgan Chase in December, now has even bigger problems.The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged her with wire,...

Despite federal and state programs to convert corn into ethanol and soybeans into biodiesel to fuel cars and trucks, the United States has never before regarded farming as a primary energy producer.That...