Hyaluronic acid has surged in popularity as a beauty ingredient in recent years, but is now also helping send sales of condoms soaring across China, Durex maker Reckitt Benckiser has revealed. The household goods giant said sales of its recently launched range of hyaluronic-acid-lubricated condoms...

By Ludwig Burger (Reuters) - French drug maker Sanofi on Friday posted stronger earnings growth than analysts had expected in the third quarter, boosted by an earlier-than-anticipated start of the vaccination season. Quarterly business operating income, excluding one-off items, rose by 14.4% to 4.6 billion...

By Francesca Landini MILAN (Reuters) - Italian energy group Eni will increase its share buyback programme to 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion), it said on Friday, after beating third-quarter profit expectations. The state-controlled group had indicated in July that it could raise the 1.6-billion-euro programme...

By Jesus Calero (Reuters) -Yara International, one of the world's largest fertilizer producers, reported third-quarter core earnings above market expectations on Friday, citing record production and its focus on core operations to boost profitability. Third-quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation (EBITDA), excluding items affecting...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's Electrolux, the world's second-biggest appliances maker, reported on Friday a smaller third-quarter adjusted operating profit than expected but said losses at its North America business narrowed. Operating profit excluding non-recurring items increased to 717 million crowns ($67.8 million) from a year-earlier 314...

Winding through the lawless, rugged hills of northern Myanmar, National Highway 3 links a stunning series of victories by ethnic rebels and pro-democracy fighters in their war against the junta. An offensive launched a year ago Sunday has seen opponents of the military seize much...

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. tech giant Apple Inc is welcome to continue deepening its presence in the Chinese market, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told its Chief Executive Tim Cook during a meeting on Friday, the ministry said in a statement. The remark mirrored the exchanges...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and China have agreed to hold further technical negotiations shortly on possible alternatives to tariffs on China-built electric vehicles, the European Commission said on Friday. "The principals agreed that further technical negotiations would take place shortly", the Commission said...

An age-old symbol of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon's rickety yellow trams have become such a magnet for tourists that some locals complain they can no longer grab a ride. Lisbon began operating trams in the late 19th century to transport passengers up the steep and...

LAS VEGAS — Last year, generative AI was the talk of the town at the annual HLTH conference in Vegas. It was a breakthrough the health tech industry folks needed and held the promise of everything from virtually diagnosing patients to conducting surgeries to finding...