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The Catawba County jail is adding mental health services to meet the growing need for diagnosis and treatment for inmates.

The world's stockmarkets have dismissed Russia's invasion of Ukraine - preferring to concentrate on the perils of inflation.

SAP Discloses Investment by Chairman's Charity in Joint Venture 05/12/2021 | 09:50am EDT Send by mail : Message : By William Boston BERLIN -- SAP SE, the German software company, said Wednesday that a charity set up by Hasso Plattner, SAP's chairman and co-founder, had invested in a financial-services joint venture SAP had created, but it denied any wrongdoing in not disclosing the investment earlier. After German media reported the existence of the Hasso Plattner Foundation's investment this week, a spokesman for SAP said an extensive compliance review before the transaction turn...

By William Boston European consumers are buying electric cars at a faster pace than ever, encouraged by government subsidies and the availability for the first time of models built by their...

Tina Müller thought she had found a way out of the lockdown. Before German authorities shut down all nonessential shops this month, the chief executive of the perfume chain Douglas saw that some rivals with similar offerings would be able to stay open because they were classified as drugstores rather than perfumeries. So, on the lockdown’s first day earlier this month, Ms. Müller pronounced Douglas a drugstore and threw open its doors in shopping malls and high streets across Germany. The political and media condemnation was swift and scathing. Douglas shut its stores the next day and iss...