ANKARA: The Turkish lira hit a record low yesterday as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, embroiled in a major graft probe, faced new...
ANKARA: The Turkish lira hit a record low yesterday as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, embroiled in a major graft probe, faced new...
Labourers work at the site of a commercial building under construction in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi. India’s biggest cities face...
A labourer guides as slag is poured into a container at Dongbei Special Steel Group Co Ltd in Dalian, Liaoning province, yesterday. Profits...
Power lines near a publicity board depicting a bull in El Berron, near Oviedo, northern Spain. Spanish competition watchdog has proposed a new...
PARIS: France’s number of registered jobseekers rose by 17,800 in November to 3.29 million, the labour ministry said, challenging government claims to have...
NEW DELHI: India’s biggest Bitcoin trading platform said on its website yesterday it had suspended operations after the central bank warned against the...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific ordered four additional long-haul planes from Boeing yesterday, a week after it ordered 21 Boeing...
SHANGHAI: US auto giant General Motors (GM) and its counterpart Ford will recall more than 1.5 million vehicles in China over defective parts,...
TOKYO: Asia’s top buyers of Iranian crude have cut purchases by about 14 percent so far this year, but imports may edge higher...
LONDON: Gold edged up yesterday, supported by some physical buying, but remained on track for its biggest annual loss in three decades as...
TOKYO: Japanese consumer inflation rose 1.2 percent last month, its fastest pace in five years, edging closer to the central bank’s 2.0 percent...
LONDON: Brent crude oil slipped towards $111 a barrel yesterday although supply disruptions in Africa kept losses in check. Escalating violence in South...
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed in an end-of-year message yesterday to deliver longed-for jobs to the hard-hit nation in 2014. Rajoy...
NEW YORK: US stocks rose yesterday, putting the Dow on track for a record closing high for a sixth straight day as retail...
A resident displays newly-issued one Chinese yuan souvenir coins, to commemorate the Year of the Horse, as people queue to exchange the coins...
A girl looks up at a toy sales display in a JC Penney store in New York. US consumers shopped less on the...
Workers check paints and bodies of the new model of Toyota Motor’s best selling car ‘Corolla’ at a plant of the company’s subsidiary...
LONDON: A rising population, a low-tax regime and insulation from the worst of the eurozone’s problems leave Britain on course to overtake Germany...