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Pride and pique as Louboutin takes Pakistan chappal global 23 Apr 2019 - 05:49 pm
In this picture taken on April 1, 2019, Chacha Noor Din, the owner of a string of shoe stores, makes a pair of sandals at his shop in Peshawar.  AFP / Abdul Majeed
Crisis-hit Greeks foot steep bills for health and education 23 Apr 2019 - 05:49 pm
Retired tenor Achilleas Papadopoulos holds the medicines he received at the social pharmacy of Elliniko in this picture taken on February 27, 2019. AFP / Aris Messinis
Twitter triples profits, global user base steadies 23 Apr 2019 - 05:04 pm
Profits in the first quarter hit $191 million, compared with $61 million a year earlier, while revenues increased 18 percent to $787 million.
Jet Airways waits for buyer as rivals muscle in on territory 23 Apr 2019 - 02:35 pm
FILE PHOTO: Jet Airways aircraft are seen parked at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, India, April 18, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
San Francisco at 'boiling point' over tech, houses, homeless 22 Apr 2019 - 08:58 pm
A real estate agent tours a home for sale during a broker open house on April 16, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
Tesla shows off self-driving technology to investors 22 Apr 2019 - 08:58 pm
In this file photo taken on February 19, 2014 people look at a Tesla Motors vehicle on the showroom floor at the Dadeland Mall in Miami. AFP/Getty Images North America/Joe Raedle
Wells Fargo’s CEO Search makes its annual meeting ‘less relevant’ 22 Apr 2019 - 08:58 pm
A woman walks past teller machines at a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco in this October 10, 2013 file photo. Reuters/Robert Galbraith
Brexit capital Boston still struggling with divide 22 Apr 2019 - 06:04 pm
Workers from EU countries sort tulips at J. A. Collison and Sons, a supplier of cut flowers to supermarkets, in the town of Boston, in Lincolnshire, northeast England, on April 18, 2019. AFP / Lindsey Parnaby
Panel to review approval of Boeing 737 Max flight controls 21 Apr 2019 - 07:41 pm
A Boeing 737 MAX 8 sits outside the hangar during a media tour of the Boeing 737 MAX at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington December 8, 2015. Reuters/Matt Mills McKnight
Lyft's fast-slumping stock quickly leads to investor lawsuits 21 Apr 2019 - 06:12 pm
Uber and Lyft signs are seen on a car in Redondo Beach, California, March 25, 2019. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
From roads to water, Nairobi slum upgrades bear fruit for residents 21 Apr 2019 - 05:35 pm
Mary Akinyi talks to a customer at her dried fish stall in Lindi village in Nairobi's Kibera slum, Kenya, March 26, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Wesley Langat
Mali hopes to cotton on to added value 21 Apr 2019 - 05:01 pm
In this file photo taken on December 4, 2018 farmers weigh the cotton collected during the harvest in southern Mali. AFP / Michele Cattani
Unemployment takes heavy toll on South Africa's young 21 Apr 2019 - 05:01 pm
Kgomotso Sebabi, a South African unemployed graduate speaks about the lack of job opportunities at her house in Soweto, Johannesburg on April 3, 2019. AFP / Gianluigi Guercia
In first, New York caps climate emissions from buildings 19 Apr 2019 - 09:33 pm
A view of Gantry Plaza State Park along the waterfront in Long Island City February 14, 2019 in the Queens borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
Female managers do not close gender pay gap 19 Apr 2019 - 09:33 pm
A gender-neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine, September 30, 2014. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Street vending legalization in Los Angeles offers migrants hope, but also challenges 19 Apr 2019 - 05:48 pm
A woman buys ice cream from a vendor outside the California Science Center at Exposition Park in Los Angeles on March 24, 2019.  AFP / Agustin Paullier
Will the Benettons use Alitalia to fly in from the cold? 19 Apr 2019 - 05:48 pm
An Alitalia Airbus A320-200 airplane comes in to land at Fiumicino airport in Rome, Italy October 24, 2018. Reuters/Max Rossi
Ukraine tycoon crows "I won" after PrivatBank nationalisation ruled illegal 19 Apr 2019 - 03:28 pm
Logo of PrivatBank, the Ukraine's biggest lender, is seen on a bank's branch in Kiev, Ukraine April 18, 2019. Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko