(Reuters) – An investment arm of Quicken Loans founder and billionaire Dan Gilbert said on Wednesday it agreed to sell the Greektown Casino-Hotel in Detroit to a real estate investment trust and a partner for $1 billion, in a sign of industry consolidation. VICI Properties Inc, which owns Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and other […]

LONDON — The selection a new pope is traditionally announced by white smoke drifting from the Vatican chimney. The news of a draft agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union trickled out in a more modern manner: a volley of tweets. A long waiting period is over. It is now almost 20 months since the […]

On Nov. 1, more than 20,000 Google employees walked off the job in protest of the company’s handling of sexual misconduct. A week later, Google capitulated to some of the protesters’ key demands and announced the end to forced arbitration for its employees in relation to sexual harassment and assault claims. The very next day, […]

A burning question of whether onions go above or under a sausage has sparked a national debate in Australia that has gripped the country, raising tensions not seen since the controversy over whether a hot dog is in fact a sandwich. Aussies are grappling with the question after hardware store chain Bunnings Warehouse, which hosts […]

The threat of anti-Muslim bigotry in Britain has been growing, and some politicians from the governing Conservative Party have been encouraging it. In a newspaper column in August, Boris Johnson, the former Conservative foreign secretary — who is chummy with Steve Bannon and fancies himself an upper-class English version of President Trump — compared Muslim […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Alibaba-backed online parenting firm Babytree Group launched a Hong Kong IPO of up to $281 million on Wednesday, far below what the Chinese company had hoped to raise, as weak markets force firms to scale back their funding ambitions. Babytree plans to sell about 250 million shares, or 15 percent of […]

Pumpkins carved for Halloween take on a new life in November for one Nova Scotia farmer, turning them into tasty treats for his livestock. Melvin Burns has been collecting donations of fruits and vegetables from farmer markets for his animals since he first started his farm. But three years ago, he had a new idea: […]

To the Editor: Re “Cave Contains World’s Oldest Figurative Art, Dating Back Over 40,000 Years” (news article, Nov. 8): As the political sniping continues after the midterms and the Democrats anoint themselves saviors of the country they claim is broken, it is a welcome distraction to read about an era long past and the enthusiasts […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. California wildfires are still blazing out of control, and the death toll has risen to at least 44. The Camp Fire in Northern California, blamed for at least 42 deaths, is now the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in […]

The Trump administration is not ready to admit it, but its Middle East strategy is in deep trouble, now compounded by the murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Turkey last month. The administration’s recent pressure on the Saudis to seek a truce in their war in Yemen is a […]