FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Europe needs debt mutualisation and a common “Marshall Plan” to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, even as Germany dismissed calls for the debt-pooling idea. EU leaders have tasked policymakers with finding a new way to finance a recovery from the COVID-19 outbreak, […]
A huge huntsman spider with a skull on its back has been found in a pack of bananas at a supermarket. The venomous creature was discovered in the German city of Krefeld on Monday and led to the fire brigade being called. The alarm was raised by supermarket employees, who discovered the spider in a […]
By Clare Jim and Marius Zaharia HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s economy contracted for the first time in a decade in 2019 as violent anti-government protests and trade tariffs between Washington and Beijing took more steam out of the economy in the final quarter of last year. The worst is yet to come, with […]
