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Rats ‘bigger than cats’ are roaming Britain’s second-biggest city as garbage collectors strike

By Anna Cooban, CNN Birmingham, UK (CNN) — Will Timms is a very busy man. The pest controller spends his days criss-crossing Britain’s second-largest city to remove rats, cockroaches and other unwanted creatures from people’s homes. Lately, Timms’ phone has barely stopped ringing as some 17,000 metric tons of garbage have piled up on Birmingham’s

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Businesses spent years diversifying away from China. Trump’s trade war could destroy those economies

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — For Tim Hsu, who sells modern lamps and ceiling lights mostly to American customers, US President Donald Trump’s historic tariff announcement has upended his carefully made plans. Last year, the Taiwanese businessman decided to invest in Cambodia to diversify his production base beyond his traditional stronghold of south China.

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This is the dubious way Trump calculated his ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs announced on dozens of nations Wednesday were pitched as “reciprocal,” matching what other countries charge the United States dollar for dollar, even taking into account non-tariff barriers like value-added taxes and other such measures. But the actual calculation the Trump administration used is not

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