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AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine was shown to be safe and 79% effective in preventing symptomatic disease in U.S. clinical trials involving more than 32,000 people, the U.K. drugmaker said.

Japanese prosecutors on Monday formally charged an American father-son team with aiding the December 2019 escape of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

Canadian Pacific agreed to acquire Kansas City Southern in a merger valued at about $25 billion that would create the first freight-rail network linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

This phenomenon reflects both the extremely tight supply of homes on the market and how surging prices are persuading tens of thousands more Americans to try their hands at selling real estate.

Signs are growing that U.S. consumers are ready for a vacation in 2021, with online searches of airfares, hotels and home rentals on the rise. Domestic destinations away from cities are seeing the strongest demand.

The pandemic has created a less-connected world. Here’s a snapshot of two days, a year apart.

The return to pre-pandemic standards flies in the face of the central bank’s huge purchases and efforts to boost the recovery.

The slow pace of the EU’s vaccination campaign, compounded by recent concerns over the safety of AstraZeneca’s shot, suggests Europe’s growth will lag far behind the U.S.

The five-year-old e-commerce company is the first challenger to loosen Alibaba and JD.com’s stranglehold over online consumption in China.

Tesla would never provide the U.S. government with data collected by its vehicles in China or other countries, Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive, told a high-level conference in China Saturday.