Customers walk out of a Starbucks coffee store in Shanghai yesterday. The food scandal has dragged in other global food brands such as...
Customers walk out of a Starbucks coffee store in Shanghai yesterday. The food scandal has dragged in other global food brands such as...
People in front of a Family Dollar store yesterday in Hallandale, Florida. NEW YORK: US discount retailers Dollar Tree and Family Dollar announced...
LONDON: The Bank of England won backing from the International Monetary Fund yesterday for keeping interest rates low, even as the IMF welcomed...
London: Virgin America Inc, the low-cost airline partly owned by Richard Branson, filed for an initial public offering of shares as it looks...
LONDON: The British government took steps to speed up energy exploration including controversial hydraulic fracturing for shale gas yesterday with a new licensing...
LONDON: Brent crude oil slipped towards $107 a barrel yesterday as ample supply in the Atlantic basin and weak demand in Europe and...
People walk past a real estate advertisement poster in Beijing yesterday. The Chinese economy performed reasonably well in the first half of 2014...
Employees of the local branch of FBME protest following the Central Bank of Cyprus’ decision to place the local bank branch under its...
SINGAPORE: The United States faces an awkward rival in its first attempts in 40 years to export crude oil — Iran. Iran, whose...
SYDNEY: The Australian environment minister, Greg Hunt, has approved a $16.5bn resources project that will lead to the creation of the largest coal...
LONDON/WASHINGTON: Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group has agreed to pay fines totalling $370m to US and British authorities investigating its part in a global...
DOHA: Turkey is in talks with Qatar to develop a ‘gas receiving station’ in Turkey. The facility is aimed to receive gas imported...
NEW YORK: Microsoft said yesterday it was under investigation by antitrust authorities in China, pledging to cooperate in the investigation. “We aim to...
A woman walks past a store window advertising a sale at a shopping district in Tokyo. Japan’s core consumer inflation eased slightly in...
A general view shows the Achinsk oil refining factory, owned by the Rosneft company, outside the town of Achinsk, some 188 km west...
DOHA: Qatar bourse’s main index declined 0.58 percent yesterday before the market closed for four-day Eid Al Fitr holidays. After long holiday weekend,...
DUBAI: Qatar’s state spending increased 12.7 percent last fiscal year, the lowest rate in 11 years, as slow growth in current expenditure offset...
An iPhone 5 Arizona: After converting all of its data centres to clean energy, it is understood that Apple is poised to use...
