Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc., which is struggling to quell workplace movements from the US to Europe, faces a growing union effort in Asia’s second largest economy. A group of 15 subcontracted drivers in the southwestern city of Nagasaki is protesting the long hours and excessive number of deliveries in the absence of overtime pay. They blamed Amazon’s vaunted artificial intelligence algorithms …

  Bloomberg Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport was forced to close one of its runways after dry grass caught fire and “spilled over from the adjacent community within the airport precinct,” it said via Twitter. Fire and rescue teams are onsite to extinguish the blaze, according to OR Tambo, which is the busiest airport in Africa. The runway that has …

  Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. declined after Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gustavo Arnal falls to his death from a Manhattan skyscraper. The shares of the struggling home-goods retailer slumped by as much as 25% in pre-market activity on Tuesday, the first day of trading after the US Labour Day weekend. The Union, New Jersey-based company confirmed on Sunday that …