COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danske Bank’s (DANSKE.CO) pension unit Danica has divested the Swedish part of its business to a private equity consortium for around 2.6 billion Swedish crowns ($288 million), the lender said on Tuesday. The consortium is led by Nordic private equity fund Polaris and German private equity fund Acathia. Institutional investors Sampension and […]

Newcomer children arriving in Winnipeg will now be welcomed with a special gift. Welcome Place — Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, is giving children dolls and teddy bears dressed in clothing from each child’s culture. Rita Chahal, the organization’s executive director says more than 100 children come through their doors each year. “It’s really, we focused […]

President Donald J. Trump, protected from criminal charges while in office, is now facing the prospect of indictment when he becomes a private citizen. On Friday, federal prosecutors in New York accused Trump of a felony: violating campaign-finance laws with hush-money payments intended to skew the 2016 election. Specifically, they detailed how Trump’s lawyer and […]

The other day, a White House reporter asked the president why, if Michael Cohen was, as President Trump put it, “a weak person and a not too smart person,” then why had he hired him? “Because a long time ago, he did me a favor,” Mr. Trump replied. Mr. Trump didn’t say what the favor […]

While we’re tracking the approach of the British Parliament’s coming vote on Brexit, we enlisted Ellen Barry, our London-based chief international correspondent, to take over the top of your daily briefing. Let us know what you think. Good morning. The British Parliament is scheduled to vote on the government’s Brexit agreement tomorrow. So the practical-minded […]

Walgreens portrays itself as the friendly neighborhood drugstore. It gives flu shots to children, helps communities after storms, donates to charity — and makes feel-good advertisements trumpeting its various good deeds. But Walgreens also has a tougher side, one you won’t see in those ads. To protect a tax break, the company has allied itself […]

It was a bit perplexing. Why were we looking at a picture of the Taoiseach and his boyfriend with Kylie Minogue, an over-botoxed and filler-ed diva from yesteryear? And before anyone starts accusing me of various shaming, I have no problem if Leo and Matt and friends want to go to see Kylie. I have […]

The UK’s willingness to inflict certain economic costs on itself in pursuit of a speculative recovery of sovereignty is quite a puzzle. There was always going to be cost in any withdrawal from such a deep internal market as the European Union, difficult to compensate through hypothetical new trade deals outside Europe. For an ambitious […]

For five weeks, the world has had no idea where Lu Guang is. Lu Guang is an internationally acclaimed photographer from China, and he has been my friend for more than 15 years. I’m proud that the agency I co-founded represents and distributes his work. We first met in Beijing in 2002. He was already […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German car parts maker Continental (CONG.DE) is considering acquiring software makers after the flotation of its Powertrain unit expected in the second half of 2019, its Chief Financial Officer Wolfgang Schaefer told Boersen-Zeitung. “We are currently in a position to pay up to 5 billion euros ($5.69 billion) for one or more […]