India's Infosys plans $1 bn buyback on strong profits
Indian outsourcing behemoth Infosys approved a $1 billion share buyback on Thursday after strong quarterly profits that reflected sustained demand for digital services.
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'Shelf-life of a lettuce': Truss's nightmare on Downing Street
British Prime Minister Liz Truss has had the shortest of political honeymoons since taking over from Boris Johnson.
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UK PM faces fresh political woes after difficult MPs meeting
Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss faced fresh woes on Thursday after a prominent Conservative party insider said some of her own MPs were considering a push to replace her with two former rivals.
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Europe heading for warmer-than-average winter: forecaster
Europe faces a higher-than-usual chance of a cold blast of weather before the end of the year, but the winter overall is likely to be warmer than average, the continent's long-range weather forecaster said Thursday.
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France orders more strikers back to work as fuel shortages bite
The French government on Thursday ordered more striking workers back to a fuel depot in northern France after talks to end a three-week strike stalled, saying petrol shortages were taking too big a toll on the economy.
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Paris Sacre-Coeur granted historic status despite bloody history
The Sacre-Coeur basilica atop the hill of Montmartre in Paris will finally be classified as a protected historical monument, ending a long dispute embedded in the city's bloody revolutionary history.
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Stocks diverge before key US inflation data
Equities mostly rose in Europe but fell in Asia Thursday, before US inflation data that could determine the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.
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Easyjet warns of another annual loss
British airline EasyJet on Thursday warned of a third annual loss in a row, as sector-wide disruption and a strong dollar offset a recovery from the pandemic.
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Cologne's mega mosque to start calling Muslims to prayer
Germany's largest mosque will for the first time broadcast the call to prayer on Friday after city authorities in Cologne gave the go-ahead for a pilot project, under strict limits.
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Protest-hit Iran accuses US of 'destablisation' plot
Iran's president Thursday accused arch-enemy the United States of seeking to destabilise the Islamic republic, which has been rocked by nearly a month of women-led protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.
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