A white former police officer has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting dead of an unarmed black man accused of shoplifting in Virginia.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has cornered online retail, jumped ahead in artificial intelligence with voice activated speaker, Echo, carved out a powerful spot in the media industry and is even dabbling in spaceflight. He may be just getting warmed up, writes Alexander Nazaryan.

Britain’s decision to quit the EU in last month’s referendum has not had an immediate impact on grocery prices or the volume of goods sold, according to industry data.

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British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s yesterday said it was prepared for an escalation of price wars in Britain’s highly-competitive supermarket sector after reporting a decline in underlying quarterly sales.

A lightbulb moment by a US coffee executive while cruising in the Caribbean has created a boom product, writes Jennifer Caplan.

Strong sales of brands like Ballygowan and MiWadi drove a 4.1% rise in revenues at the Irish arm of international soft drinks producer Britvic in the first half of its current financial year.

The senator is a cause rather than just a candidate and thus has a real chance to beat Clinton, writes Robert L Borosage

It’s show time again. The party machines have revved up. The soundbites have been polished off. The candidates are out on the road pressing the flesh, occasionally taking time out to gaze up admiringly at their images on their posters.

No sooner had the UK embraced Black Friday than the American holiday shopping tradition looks to be on its way out.

The global investment landscape has been transformed since 2009.

Discounters Aldi and Lidl stepped up their march across the UK supermarket industry in the last 12 weeks as the impact of price cuts by the country’s large grocers faded.

When Wal-Mart raises its minimum wage to $10 (€8.81) an hour next year, Target and other competitors are going to face a dilemma: Follow suit and jeopardise profits or risk losing their best workers.

British supermarket Morrisons and German trader Aldi responded yesterday to pressure from financially strapped dairy farmers by raising the price they pay milk suppliers.

Equities around the world jumped yesterday and the euro tumbled on signals the European Central Bank may accelerate its €1tn bond-buying programme over the next two months.

Retail giant Wal-Mart played a major part in the fight for equality when its CEO spoke out against a bill that would let businesses discriminate on religious beliefs, writes Nathan Layne in Chicago    

Lawmakers in Arkansas and Indiana are scrambling to revise religious objection measures as Republican governors in both states try to quell a growing backlash from businesses and other critics who have called the laws anti-gay.

The father-in-law of a woman accidentally shot dead with her own gun by her two-year-old son has said she was “not the least bit irresponsible”.

A relative of the woman who was accidentally shot and killed by her two-year-old son at a US supermarket says she was a “loving mother”.

A relative of the woman who was accidentally shot and killed by her two-year-old son at a US supermarket says she was a “loving mother”.

A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his mother after he reached into her purse at a Wal-Mart store in the US and the concealed gun fired.

USA: A man faked a heart attack inside a Wal-Mart store in Florida so his friend could steal toys.

A man faked a heart attack inside a Wal-Mart store in Florida so his friend could steal toys, according to authorities.

Two young brothers from southeastern Wisconsin are likely hoping they haven’t landed on Santa’s naughty list after police showed up at their doorstep.

SNAPPY WRAPS

The financial watchdog in Britain has launched a full probe into the Tesco accounting scandal, which has wiped £4bn (€5.1bn) off the troubled grocer’s stock market value.

Employees at a Wal-Mart in Corsicana, Texas, were shocked after they discovered that a 14-year-old boy had been living inside the store for four days.

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US comedy star Tracy Morgan is suing retail giant Wal-Mart over last month’s crash involving one of its drivers that left him seriously injured and a fellow comedian dead.