SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

HONG KONG, July 28 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's CK Hutchison ( CKHUF ) said on Monday that the period had expired for exclusive talks between the company and a BlackRock ( BLK )-led group for a contract to sell two port operations near the Panama Canal. The group, however, remains in discussions with members of the consortium, it said, with...

July 27 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding plans to investigate whether an experimental medicine can delay or prevent Alzheimer's disease symptoms, it said on Sunday, as a part of the company's growing development programme for the disease. The clinical trial of the drug, Trontinemab, will target people who are at risk of cognitive decline and will aim to delay...

TURNBERRY, Scotland (Reuters) -The United States struck a framework trade agreement with the European Union on Sunday, imposing a 15% import tariff on most EU goods, half the threatened rate, and averting a bigger trade war between two allies that account for almost a third of global trade. U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen...