Bloomberg The European Union is preparing to offer the next British PM a Brexit extension beyond October 31 to provide yet another attempt to reach an agreement, The Guardian reported, citing unidentified EU officials. The extra period of membership, while allowing for an agreement to be reached, could be billed to members of the Conservative Party as an opportunity to ...

Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a story the Irish author Frank O’Connor told about his boyhood. Facing the challenge of a high wall, O’Connor and his playmates tossed their caps over it. Said Kennedy, “They had no choice but to follow them. This ...

At last, India’s in-court bankruptcies will show some urgency and common sense. The government said it would amend the 2016 insolvency law, a signature reform of Prime Minister NarendraModi’s first term. Investors will cheer. The legislation was getting mired in frustrating legal delays and bizarre judgments, threatening to scare off global investors from a $200-billion-plus bad-debt cleanup. The last straw ...