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Britain's health minister on Wednesday hailed the use of a steroid called dexamethasone for treating coronavirus patients as the best news so far of the outbreak.

China's meat importers fear clearing delays and a hit to demand after one of the country's major ports started requiring COVID-19 tests for all meat and seafood containers to prevent contamination from the coronavirus that causes the disease.

Indebted South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett said on Wednesday it would sell a sugarcane farm in eSwatini to the country's public pension fund for 375 million rand ($21.83 million).

Russian conglomerate Sistema and the Russia-China Investment Fund will raise about 11 billion roubles ($158.26 million) from the sale of shares in Russia's largest children's goods retailer Detsky Mir, Sistema said on Wednesday.

United Airlines sweetened on Tuesday a voluntary exit package for flight attendants and extended the application deadline, saying it needed "a lot more people to sign up" to avoid involuntary layoffs in October, according to a document seen by Reuters.

Kazakhstan plans to float its state oil and gas company KazMunayGaz in 2022, sovereign fund Samruk Kazyna said on Wednesday, having scrapped plans to list it abroad this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil price drop.

London copper prices rose on Wednesday on hopes for higher demand as the U.S. economy showed signs of a recovery, but the optimism was crimped by a coronavirus outbreak in top metals consumer China.

United Airlines sweetened a voluntary exit package for flight attendants and extended the application deadline, saying that while "thousands of employees" signed up, "we're finding that's not enough," according to a document seen by Reuters.

Chinese rebar futures drifted lower on Wednesday as investors worried about surplus risks, with steel output in the world's top metals consumer maintaining a robust pace of growth despite signs of weakening domestic demand.

Britain said its exports could increase by a billion pounds as a result of the trade deals it is seeking from Australia and New Zealand, setting out its negotiating objectives on Wednesday ahead of the start of formal talks.

Bayer AG said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly $1 billion project to produce the chemical dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision that blocked sales of weed killers based on the product.

Southwest Airlines Co said on Tuesday it will continue to limit bookings on its flights until at least September to maintain space between passengers.

The United Arab Emirates can work with Israel on some areas, including fighting the new coronavirus and on technology, while still having political differences with the state, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Administrators at state-owned South African Airways (SAA) said on Tuesday the government needed to find more than 10 billion rand ($579.47 million) of new money for a long-delayed plan to rescue the cash-strapped airline.

German investor Heinz Hermann Thiele sharply criticised a 9-billion-euro ($10.14 billion) bailout deal for carrier Lufthansa, saying he had raised his stake in the group to more than 15% and hoped alternative options could be explored.

German investor Heinz Hermann Thiele has raised his stake in Lufthansa, which this month agreed to a state bailout, to more than 15% from 10%, he told newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview.

U.S. lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would reform aircraft certification following two fatal Boeing Co 737 MAX crashes, Senators Roger Wicker and Maria Cantwell said in a joint statement accompanying the proposal.

U.S. lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday that would reform aircraft certification following two fatal 737 MAX crashes, U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Maria Cantwell said in a joint release.

Air Canada is seeing improved domestic bookings, but expects international flights to only pick up if governments relax travel restrictions introduced to curb the spread of coronavirus, the airline's chief financial officer said on Tuesday.

Air Canada is seeing improved domestic bookings, but expects international flights to pick up only when the Canadian government relaxes travel restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the airline's chief financial officer said on Tuesday.