Bloomberg The European Union failed to water down proposals for the Irish border that Theresa May said no prime minister could ever accept in the first revision of the draft Brexit treaty. Revising the first draft of the document published by the European Commission two weeks ago, diplomats from the 27 remaining EU countries retained the focus on keeping Northern ...

Bloomberg Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book “A Brief History of Time,” has died. He was 76. Hawking died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in England on March 14, a spokesman for his family said. “We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today,” ...

Bloomberg Denmark is edging closer to a public sector strike that has the potential of wiping out most of the country’s economic growth. Employers have already warned some 450,000 employees—more than half of the total—not to turn up for work on April 10 unless a protracted dispute over pay is resolved. Helge Pedersen, chief economist at Nordea, the Nordic’s largest ...