Soothing words from US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen have helped pull the stock market out of a morning slump, but internet companies and Whole Foods Market plunged, taking the Nasdaq down.

In the past six years, 10 million hives, worth $2bn, have been wiped out in the US. Last winter alone, a third of all US honeybees died. Should we be worried? John Hearne reports

It remains to be seen if Amazon will succeed where others failed in trying to make selling groceries online profitable, writes Alistair Barr.

Irish meat-free product Dee’s Organic Omega Burgers has been inducted into VegFest UK’s Hall of Fame — alongside meat-free musicians Moby, Ozzy Osbourne, Sinéad O’Connor, and Russell Brand.

Wall Street ended a dismal week with its third decline in a row today after oil prices jumped on word of a possible string of attacks in Nigeria near production facilities.