LONDON: Scotland may be left in a currency limbo if it votes for independence because it is uncertain if it could continue using...
LONDON: Scotland may be left in a currency limbo if it votes for independence because it is uncertain if it could continue using...
LONDON: Royal Bank of Scotland is shutting its controversial turnaround division and the two most senior executives who ran it are to leave...
ECB President Mario Draghi arrives for the news conference in Frankfurt. FRANKFURT: The Ukraine crisis has heightened risks to the eurozone’s weak and...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange index gained 199.02 points, or 1.55 percent, in the past week as the bourse closed trading at 13,076.33 points yesterday....
North Korean leader Kim-Jong-un visits the Pyongyang Hosiery Factory, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in...
Kelly Brown (right) helps Saul Scherl shop for a Jeep at a car dealership in New York City. Chrysler Group LLC’s profit gained...
ROME: Global food prices hit a six-month low in July led mainly by sharp declines in grains, oilseeds and dairy, which balanced out...
MEXICO CITY: Foreign energy firms have wanted to return to Mexico since they were kicked out 76 years ago. Now that they have...
NEW YORK: Bank of America has tentatively agreed to pay a record $16bn to $17bn settlement to resolve allegations it misled investors on...
Portugal’s Finance Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque (right) arrives to speak about the BES bailout in parliament in Lisbon yesterday. LISBON: Lisbon will cut...
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee with reporters after touring the Samsung booth at the CES in Las Vegas. SEOUL: As its smartphone sales...
An unemployed man holding a sign offering to work for food for his children as Australia’s unemployment rate spiked to a 12-year high...
ROME: Loss-making Italian airline Alitalia will seal its tie-up with Gulf carrier Etihad today, the government said, a deal that comes as the...
BEIJING: China will force real-name registrations on public accounts of instant messaging tools and require those wishing to publish or reprint political news...
PARIS: As populations age around the world, economies will be held back and growth trends will slow sharply in the next 20 years,...
DOHA: Qatar will award projects worth a total $ 26.2bn in 2014, compared with just $9.4bn last year. Infrastructure project awards across the...
Pedestrians walk past a signboard showing Samsung’s Galaxy S5 (right) and Apple’s iPhone 5s at a mobile phone shop in Seoul yesterday. SEOUL:...
DOHA: Hotels in Doha city experienced an 11.4 percentage point growth in occupancy to 75.9 percent in the first six months of 2014,...
