Thousands of Airbnb reservations scrapped, Uber reduced to delivering food: life is hard in Japan for giants of the sharing economy, stuck between tough regulation and popular suspicion.

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index slipped 0.31 percent on Wednesday with investors jittery over US protectionist policies and concerns over fuel costs linked to a rise in oil prices.

Air New Zealand was Wednesday fined Aus$15 million (US$11 million) by an Australian court for its part in a global air cargo cartel involving major international airlines.

Hong Kong stocks fell in the morning session Wednesday, with a rally in energy firms overshadowed by ongoing worries about a potentially damaging China-US trade war.

Twitter on Tuesday said it will begin asking for email addresses or phone numbers to confirm new accounts as part of a battle against manipulation, particularly by automated bots.

The shutdown of a Syncrude facility in the Canadian oil sands after a transformer blew tightened supplies and put upward pressure on prices Tuesday.

Hong Kong stocks rose in the first few minutes of trade Wednesday with energy firms boosted by a surge in oil prices, though trade war fears are keeping a cap on gains.

Friday morning at 5:24 am (0924 GMT), a rocket owned by the US company SpaceX will blast off from Florida carrying two and a half tons of gear from NASA...

Tokyo stocks opened lower Wednesday, shrugging off positive impacts from a cheaper yen and fractional gains on Wall Street as trade war worries continued to weigh on the market.

US sovereign debt is approaching historically high levels and in three decades debt service will cost as much as Social Security spending, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.