(Reuters) -The European Union is open to extending a deal giving U.S. lobsters duty-free access as part of a broader package aimed at removing tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two officials. The EU's current regulation eliminating customs duties for fresh and frozen lobsters from the U.S. expires on July 31. The...

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) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will attempt to pass President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, following weeks of intra-party divisions of how deeply to cut spending. The bill would extend Trump's signature 2017 tax cuts, create new tax breaks for tipped income and auto loans, end many green-energy subsidies...

(Reuters) -Swiss food giant Nestle is refocusing on the group's core business after straying into segments like health supplements that weakened the fabric of the organisation, CEO Laurent Freixe was quoted as saying in the Financial Times on Thursday. Freixe, who took the helm of the company in September, told the newspaper he did not see the merits of slimming...