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Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, spends a sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated Nov. 3), fending off a challenge from Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode," which charges from No. 7 to No. 2 following the arrival of its official video.

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President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war against China has drawn plenty of historical parallels. The Chinese like to invoke the 19th-century Opium Wars and the national humiliation that followed. In the U.S. the comparison is increasingly to the Cold War against the Soviet Union, or the 1980s trade wars against Japan.

Ask Douglas Irwin, author of “Clashing Over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy,” however, and he argues the most accurate comparison from an A...

How will the UK manage its public finances in the decades ahead? With great difficulty, is the answer. Its public sector balance sheet and long-term fiscal outlook are in poor shape. The implications are also clear: in addition to managing the public sector balance sheet as wisely as possible, the country will have to increase

AirAsia, a low-cost air carrier, is linking Visakhapatnam and Bangkok and the flights would begin from Dec 8.

Making the announcement at a media conference here on Monday, Rajkumar Paranthaman, the head of marketing, said there would be flights on four weekdays from here to Bangkok (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) and the return flights from Bangkok to Vizag would be on Monday, Wednesday. Friday and Sunday.

He said the travel to Bangkok would be hassle-free and visa on arr...

If you’ve listened to the show before, you’ve probably heard me talk about affiliate marketing. But what about the other side? What if you have a product—like a course or a new book—that you own and you want other people to promote it? How do you find those people? What should their commission be? Learn the answer to these questions and more with today’s special guest Mat...

‘If (by the end of the deal) the talent that owns the customer relationships is not there, will L&T still get the value it is looking for?’

While Mindtree and Larsen & Toubro continue to battle it out in what is being described as a hostile takeover attempt, different stakeholders seem to be divided on what the deal wo...