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,...

(Corrects to remove hyperlink in paragraph 2) By Allison Lampert and David Shepardson (Reuters) -Boeing ( BA ) and GE Aerospace are scaling back their public activities following the fatal crash of an Air India jetliner, with the planemaker's CEO canceling his trip to the Paris Airshow next week and GE postponing an investor day. More than 240 people were...

June 12 (Reuters) - Railroad operator Norfolk Southern ( NSC ) said on Thursday it had elected former Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson as the independent chair of the board effective immediately. Anderson will additionally serve as chair of the Executive Committee and Strategy & Planning Committee, the company said. The aviation veteran's appointment comes after Claude Mongeau resigned...

* Flight was bound for London's Gatwick Airport * Police say plane crashed on doctors' hostel * More than 240 dead, police say * Airline confirms one passenger survived * First fatal crash of Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (Adds new details about Boeing ( BA ) assisting with crash investigation in paragraphs 27-28) By Sumit Khanna, Shivam Patel and Aditi Shah...