A home with a sign, ‘Sale Pending’ in Oakland, California, yesterday. Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area rose 17.5 percent in...
A home with a sign, ‘Sale Pending’ in Oakland, California, yesterday. Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area rose 17.5 percent in...
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) ordered closure of the Tuticorin copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources...
BEIJING: China expressed “resolute opposition” and “strong dissatisfaction” with a new US cyber-espionage rule limiting imports of Chinese-made information technology products, state media...
NEW YORK: UPS agreed to forfeit $40m and implement a compliance programme after a Department of Justice probe found the company delivered drugs...
Giant wind turbines are powered by strong winds in Palm Springs, California. According to reports, California continues to lead the nation in green...
PARIS: Qatari investors are set to buy 100 percent of French department store Printemps, official documents seen by Reuters show. The tourist shopping...
Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso (right) and his wife Antoinette (second right) welcome China’s new President Xi Jinping (second left) and and his...
WASHINGTON: US consumer spending rose in February and sentiment among Americans perked up this month, further signs of an acceleration in economic activity...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande declared that companies would have to pay a 75 percent tax on salaries over a million euros after...
TOKYO: Japan’s crude oil imports from Iran fell nearly a third in February from the same month a year earlier, trade ministry data...
A woman gives money to musicians busking in a street in the old part of the Cypriot capital Nicosia yesterday. Businesses and families...
Yoichi Yokozawa, President and CEO, Mitsubishi Motors North America, unveiling the 2014 Mitsubishi Outlander at the New York International Auto Show in New...
NEW YORK: The Federal Bureau of Investigation officials arrested a trader from SAC Capital for insider trading yesterday, in the latest push by...
ISTANBUL: Turkey exported almost $120m worth of gold to Iran in February, data showed, suggesting the two countries’ trade of gold for natural...
BEIJING: Apple is to face “strengthened supervision” from China’s consumer watchdogs, state media reported yesterday, as the US computer giant is hit by...
A US Airways passenger jet takes off past an American Airlines aircraft at Reagan National Airport outside Washington. AMR Corp, American Airlines’ bankrupt...
DUBAI: Doha-based investment bank QInvest, majority owned by Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), says it plans to launch at least 30 Islamic funds over...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) Index lost 19.34 points or 0.22 percent during this week to close at 8,586.26 points. During the week, trading...
