Thoroughbred horse breeding is an instance where Ireland can claim to be among the world's best, but Brexit is giving the industry huge cause for concern.

The catwalk has met the auctioneer's gavel and gone online.

In a streaming fashion show Saturday, a California auction house aimed to modernize the auction format with what it calls the "first ever runway fashion show auction."

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who steps down as chair of the Eurogroup on Monday, rose from obscurity to become an unflappable dealmaker who helped guide Europe through the worst of the Greek debt crisis.

Iran inaugurated a long-awaited new port at Chabahar in the southeast Sunday, which it is hoped will be a major new trade hub linking India and Africa with Central Asia.

SGBL announced the signature of an agreement with KBL European Private Bankers (KBL epb) concerning the acquisition by SGBL of KBL Richelieu bank in France and KBL bank Monaco, a press release said on Saturday.

Investors in Asia shifted nervously on Friday as Donald Trump's much-hyped tax-cut plans hung in the balance after a plan to push them through hit unexpected hurdles.

Luciano Benetton, one of the founders of the eponymous Italian clothing company, announced his return Thursday to the helm of the struggling company.

Mexico removed its last price controls on gasoline and diesel Thursday, the final step in a reform that triggered riots when it began in January.

The elimination of price controls in the south and center of the country was only supposed to take effect on December 30, but the national energy regulator said the reform was going so well in the north that it had decided to push forward the date.

Venezuela's military on Thursday arrested the country's former oil minister and the ex-chief of state oil company PDVSA after both men were sacked last week as part of an anti-corruption crackdown.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab told journalists that an operation by the Military Counterintelligence Unit "led to the arrests of Eulogio del Pino and Nelson Martinez."

The United States has renewed pressure on China to stop crude oil shipments to North Korea to close a crucial economic lifeline to the regime following its latest missile threat.

US President Donald Trump personally appealed to Chinese leader Xi Jinping to turn off the oil tap during a phone call after nuclear-armed North Korea launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile.