Corruption is a key issue in Portugal's early general election on Sunday.

Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years.

World leaders, CEOS, protesters and thousands of others will soon descend on San Francisco for a high-profile trade summit that could give the battered city a chance to reverse its image as a powerhouse in decline.

IKEA is recalling certain mirrors sold at its stores and online due to issues with the plastic fittings that can cause the mirror to fall.

If you used a credit or debit card at IKEA between Oct. 2017 and Dec. 2019, you may be able to take advantage of a $24 million settlement.

Russians are snapping up Western fashion and furniture this week as H&M and IKEA sell off the last of their inventory in Russia.

Swedish retailer Ikea is known for the distinctive names of its flat-pack home products.

A French court has ordered home furnishings giant Ikea to pay more than $1.3 million in fines and damages Tuesday over a campaign to spy on union representatives, employees and some unhappy customers in France.

But at Monday's trial in the Versailles court, lawyers for Ikea France denied any strategy of “generalized espionage." Another accusation alleged that Ikea France used unauthorized data to try to catch an employee who had claimed unemployment benefits but drove a Porsche. Former Ikea France CEOs Jean-Louis Baillot and Stefan Vanoverbeke, former Chief Financial Officer Dariusz Rychert, store managers and police officers are also going on trial. Ikea France, a subsidiary of Swedish furniture company Ikea, said Monday it has cooperated with French judicial authorities. In France, Ikea employs more than 10,000 people in 34 stores, an e-commerce site and a customer support center.

Millions of kids logging onto virtual school this fall has parents scrambling to find furniture for them. But John Furner, who runs Walmart’s U.S. stores, acknowledged low stocks of kid’s desks and laptops in a ABC News interview on Sept. 11. “It’s not as cute or trendy as a bought desk and I wish it had drawers for storage,” said Fry. Will the homemade desk make it through the school year? “I could not believe in three weeks how much damage he’s done to this desk.”_____Follow Joseph Pisani on Twitter @ josephpisani

LEIDEN, Netherlands - Ikea is recalling thousands of infant bibs over concerns their snaps could be a choking hazard if they detach. The recalled 7,000 MATVR infant bibs appear as a pair in a pack, and were sold in stores online and worldwide. "The blue bib has a green seam along the outside with white polka dots. The red bib has a yellow seam along the outside with red polka dots," IKEA said. It asked consumers to stop using the recalled bibs and return them to any IKEA store for a refund.

Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSCOTLAND - If you're going to plan a hide-and-seek event at a store, Ikea is probably the best place to do it, right? The Scotsman reports police were called after thousands of people threatened to turn up for a mass game of hide-and-seek at the furniture store. Staff at the shopping center became aware of a Facebook thread suggesting some 3,000 youths were about to descend on the store. As well as drafting in extra security, Ikea contacted Police Scotland, who dispatched five officers, The Scotsman reports. Throughout the afternoon, groups of youths who looked like they were only there for the game were turned away from the shop.

Released in 2000, the G4 Cube didn't look like a computer at all -- it looked like some knickknack you'd buy at an Ikea store. The computer was cube-shaped and entombed in an acrylic case. As so often tends to be the case with Apple, fashion beat out function with this device. It was encased in an acrylic box and had no fan (Apple wanted to keep it quiet), so it was prone to overheat. It also lacked an audio output -- something computers sort of need.

For the past three decades, the group has built more than 11,000 modular homes throughout Sweden, Finland and Norway using the Ikea model: strip out costs by producing large quantities of parts off-site. Its namesake, Queen Silvia of Sweden whose mother suffered from Alzheimer's has been a partner from the beginning. Before he died in 2018, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad made a large donation to the project through the the queen's foundation, which provides training on dementia care. "BoKlok was designed the IKEA way: large volumes, low prices," according to a Skanska blog post from 2011. "It's still the same floor layout, but you need to understand how people with dementia react in certain situations," Spangenberg said.

Pixabay(CNN) - The Edison light bulb is having another moment - 140 years after its invention: It's the center of a new lawsuit. The University of California Santa Barbara is suing five major retailers Walmart, Target, Amazon, Ikea and Bed Bath & Beyond for violating its patents on "filament" LED light bulbs. The bulbs are designed to look like the some of the original light bulbs produced by inventor Thomas Edison. In the court filings, the university expects sales for the Edison bulbs to exceed $1 billion this year. The bulbs have an antique aesthetic but are much more energy efficient than the original Edison bulbs.

Barley the golden retriever never leaves home without his best friend Fluffy, a stuffed toy that looks exactly like him. His owner, 31-year-old Zita Butler, explained the 1-year-old pup living in Amsterdam is your average fun-loving golden retriever. Hes an attention seeker. Butler said Fluffy even seems to comfort Barley during stressful times, like when the vacuum cleaner comes on. But the Community Kept Them TogetherFrida the Beloved Rescue Dog RetiresDog Who Sat at Late Owner's Hospital Bed Finds New Home

Ikea is determined to find out the key to happiness and needs your help to crack the code. Denmark always ranks high when websites rank the happiest countries in the world, and that's why Ikea Denmark wants to send someone to the country to figure out why the people of Denmark are so dang happy. Ikea Denmark will fly you out to Denmark and give you a place to stay in the historic city of Copenhagen for two weeks in September. All you need to do is tell Ikea a little bit about yourself and send in a 60-second video explaining why you'd be the perfect candidate to travel to Denmark to figure out why the Danes are always happy. Applications are due by July 1, so if you feel like this could be your calling, we'd suggest you start filling out that application ASAP.