Amex Widens Refer-A-Friend Program to Products Outside Your Card Family

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Taxing fat and subsidising healthy eating widens inequality

IN RICH countries, people’s diets are getting worse and they are getting fatter. Hence the increasing popularity of a “fat tax”, to make unhealthy food cost more. Since Hungary led the charge in 2011 with a “chip tax” on fatty and sugary foods, other countries have followed. Britain is to join a long list next […]

Amazon widens its retail footprint with Kohl’s partnership

Sometimes when you’re down on your luck, you have to strike a deal with the enemy. That’s what Kohl’s is doing by partnering up with Amazon, ostensibly its biggest online rival, to sell Amazon hardware. The department store chain plans to open 1,000-square-foot areas in ten of its locations dedicated to the devices. This “store-in-store” […]

‘Declaration of war:’ Hajj controversy widens row between Saudi Arabia & Qatar

The feud between the Saudi-led block and Qatar escalated over the weekend, with Doha protesting to the UN over restrictions on its citizens flying to Mecca, and Riyadh threatening “war” over what it considers calls to “internationalize the holy sites” in Mecca and Medina. Following a meeting Sunday of the so-called Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) of […]

Merkel’s party widens its lead just 5 months before the German vote

Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats have opened a seven-point lead over the centre-left Social Democrats five months ahead of the Sept. 24 election, according to a poll on Sunday in the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. The Emnid institute survey found the Christian Democrats and their Christian Social Union allies […]