Paris: Euphoria on global stock markets might give the impression that the financial crisis is a thing of the past, but for unemployed workers or idling companies the effect of the turmoil is still keenly felt. On the main equity markets last week, the ...
Two weeks of anti-foreigner violence in South Africa have highlighted the growing disconnect between a public impatient for change and a governing party that claims a divine right to rule. Although there is little prospect of the African National ...
South African troops have killed a man in a Johannesburg township during operations to quell anti-immigrant violence, the army said on Saturday, as they deployed on the streets for the first time since apartheid. At least 43 have been killed, more than 5 ...
Serious concerns were raised in Davos last week about the ability of the Chinese government to spy on the country's 500 million mobile phone users. The head of China's biggest mobile phone company, which has more than 300 million subscribers, ...
The annual Davos gathering of the world's political and business elite opened on Wednesday with the fragile state of the world economy and stock-market turmoil casting a pall over the glitzy get-together. In recent years the annual meeting in the Swiss ...
Airbus yesterday delivered the first of its A380s, the world's biggest passenger jet, to Singapore Airlines, 18 months behind schedule but with both sides hailing the major advance in air travel. The 73-meter-long superjumbo was handed over in a ...
Airbus on Monday delivered the first of its A380s, the world's biggest passenger jet, to Singapore Airlines, 18 months behind schedule but with both sides hailing the major advance in air travel. The 73m-long superjumbo was handed over in a ceremony at ...
VIENNA -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil exporters have agreed to increase their output by about 2.0 percent from next month, but oil markets are set to remain tense for the remainder of the year, analysts believe. Despite ...
VIENNA -- The ghosts of Asia's 1997 financial crisis haunted an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting here Tuesday, as members of the oil cartel split about whether to raise output to help cool surging crude prices. OPEC ...
VIENNA -- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) ministers were locked in tense negotiations about the cartel's output Tuesday, with signs that the group might still bend to the will of Saudi Arabia and increase production. A majority ...
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