WASHINGTON: Employment rose at a faster pace than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in the prior two...
WASHINGTON: Employment rose at a faster pace than expected in April and hiring was much stronger than previously thought in the prior two...
PARIS: European Union Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier, the EU’s top financial regulator, called on the French government to pursue its planned reforms...
MADRID: Spain unveiled plans to rein in the regional savings banks blamed for triggering its financial crisis, the latest step in an overhaul...
Sana’a: Yemen and World Bank signed here yesterday an agreement on granting an extra financing aid of $25 million to the Social Fund...
LOS ANGELES: The Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp, who drew criticism over his compensation as CEO, is out. Ray R Irani will step...
Bharti Airtel zonal office building in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. NEW DELHI/DUBAI: Qatar has bought a 5 percent stake in Indian...
A worker collects tomatoes in a farm in Salto, 100km west of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prices of the red fruit shot up 122...
Paris: The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada yesterday met Delphine Batho, the French Minister of...
WASHINGTON: The Washington Post Co. eked out a slim profit in the first quarter as earnings from cable and broadcast television operations offset...
New York: US unemployment hit a four-year low in April as the US job market bucked off fears of a spring freeze and...
DUBLIN: Ireland has resolved a standoff with international lenders over the timing of so-called “stress tests” of its bailed-out banks that threatened to...
People stand in front of the new Apple store at the Kurfuerstendamm in Berlin, prior to its opening, yesterday.
LONDON: China, Russia and Kazakhstan are among the few trade allies still providing a lifeline to Iran’s vital steel and iron ore sector...
GENEVA: China must fall into line by July 31 with a World Trade Organisation order to change its restrictive policy on certain steel...
LONDON: State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland yesterday pushed for the British government to start selling its 82 percent stake as early as next...
ANKARA: A consortium of Turkish construction firms won a tender on Friday to build and operate a planned third airport in Istanbul which...
DOHA: Qatar’s main index gained 155.42 points (1.81 percent) last week to 8,748.68 points. The trading value increased 31.40 percent to QR1.38bn compared...
Pump jacks seen in the Midway Sunset oilfield, California. The nearby vast Monterey shale formation is estimated by the US Energy Information Administration...
