Flames shoot out of a chimney at a petrochemical plant in Kawasaki near Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo: Japan’s factory output contracted a worse-than-expected 0.6...
Flames shoot out of a chimney at a petrochemical plant in Kawasaki near Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo: Japan’s factory output contracted a worse-than-expected 0.6...
Labourers work at the construction site of a residential complex in Kolkata yesterday. New Delhi: India’s economy grew by a slower than expected...
The Eni logo at a building. MILAN: Italy’s Eni is open to selling a stake in its “supergiant” Zohr gas field discovery off...
Traders at their desks in front of the DAX board at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange yesterday. Paris: Europe’s main stock markets slid yesterday...
Chinese tourists taking pictures against the iconic Merlion statue in Singapore. A record 117 million Chinese travelled overseas in 2014, more than double...
The Medupi power station in Lephalale, as South African President Jacob Zuma opened South Africa’s first new power plant in 20 years yesterday. ...
BEIJING: China’s economy is growing at a “reasonable” pace and, despite growing pressure, the government can handle well the risks the country faces,...
A Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first pressurised cabin passenger aircraft, is seen at the Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian National Air and Space Annex Museum in...
Demonstrators take part in a protest to demand higher wages for fast-food workers outside McDonald’s in Los Angeles, California. New York: US union...
Turkey’s Central Bank Governor Erdem Basci (left) and University of Chile Professor Jose De Gregorio attend the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s...
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer speaks during the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Jackson...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York yesterday. LONDON: Fears over the health of China’s economy...
DUBAI/LONDON: A second oil price rout of 2015 has forced Arab Opec members to cut their price expectations for this year, showing they...
BERLIN: Germany posted a record-breaking ¤21bn surplus in the first half of 2015 but has turned a deaf ear to criticism from home...
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil has slipped into recession, the government said yesterday, deepening the gloom in the world’s seventh largest economy already battered...
Sydney: Australian supermarket giant Woolworths yesterday posted a 12.5 percent slide in full-year net profit and announced its chairman was stepping down, just...
Caption NEW YORK: An interest rate hike next month seems less appropriate given the threat posed to the US economy by recent global...
People walking in Johannesburg inner city. South Africa’s economy shrunk in the second quarter, official statistics Pretoria: South Africa’s economy unexpectedly shrank in...
