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Almost a quarter of a million people were ordered to leave their homes in southwest Japan today as heavy rain pounded the area for the third day, with ...

Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Mr Raja Pervez Ashraf, will embark on his first foreign visit to Saudi Arabia tomorrow, days before the Supreme Court ...

Credit card giants, Visa and MasterCard, agreed to pay more than $6 billion to millions of merchants, who sued them for allegedly fixing card-use ...

Afghan authorities say a suicide attacker blew himself up in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing more than 20 people, including Ahmad Khan ...

The US President Mr Barack Obama’s re-election campaign has spent nearly $100 million on television commercials in key battleground states so far, ...

The CEO of General Motors’ loss-making European business abruptly stepped down today, a sign that the automaker’s top management wants to speed up ...

Singapore’s economy grew at a modest pace of 1.9 per cent, although up from 1.2 per cent a year ago, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said today. In ...

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) today said it will offer Options contracts from July 16 under its latest product partnership with the National Stock ...

US First Lady Michelle Obama has reportedly received a death threat from a police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for White House officials ...

US ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded Italy’s government bond rating by two notches, citing the knock-on effects of a possible Greek exit from the ...

Concern that there may be further closures of European steel plants continues to build, as the slump that followed the bounce back of 2010 shows no ...

Border issues would not have any impact on the India-China relationship, the Consul-General of China in Kolkata, Mr Zhang Lizhong, said today. The ...

The economic growth in emerging markets slowed in the April-June quarter because of weakness in the manufacturing sector as well as below-trend ...

Fitch Ratings has retained the US at its top ‘AAA’ credit rating but also left the outlook negative, citing the failure of Congress and the Obama ...

Internet giant Google is closing on a deal to pay $22.5 million as settlement charges related to its bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of ...

Euro Zone finance ministers agreed today to offer Spain $37 billion this month to help its distressed banks as they raced to battle market scepticism ...

A senior Bank of England official, today denied that he had given any hint to Barclays that it should manipulate reports of its borrowing costs. Mr ...

Insurance Australia Group is increasing presence in Asia including India to generate 10 per cent of its business from the region within four years.

China’s overpowering economic strength is not a real concern and India should find a way to be an ally with it, according to Tata Group Chairman, Mr ...

Greece’s coalition government breezed through a largely symbolic confidence vote, winning the difficult mandate of tackling a two-year-old crisis and ...

With Libor comprehensively rigged, where do we go from here?

Under probe for rigging interest rates, Barclays bank is now embroiled in a tax row that allegedly involved avoiding paying millions of pounds in tax ...

Five large US drug and grocery chains are suing Pfizer Inc and a second drugmaker, alleging they conspired to delay sales of cheap generic versions of ...

American investors need to prepare for an upcoming stock market crash that will be worse than 2008, a noted US economist has warned. The stock market ...