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,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beijing is considering ways to address the Trump administration's concerns about China's role in the fentanyl trade, potentially providing an off-ramp from hostilities to allow trade talks to start, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The paper cited unnamed people familiar with the matter as saying that Chinese Minister for Public Security Wang Xiaohong had been...

(Reuters) -The Trump administration will revise a Biden-era rule that required the oil and gas industry to provide nearly $7 billion in new financial assurances to cover the cost of decommissioning old infrastructure, the Interior Department said on Friday. In a statement, the agency said it would develop a new regulation, but did not give specifics. The move is aligned...

May 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted Novo Nordisk's marketing application for an oral version of its weight-loss drug Wegovy and will take a decision by the fourth quarter, the Danish drugmaker said on Friday. The company's experimental once-daily version will become the first oral GLP-1 for chronic weight management, if approved. Novo Nordisk's oral...