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Japan stocks soar; Display Inc jumps

-- 2017-12-08 01:56:17

Japanese stocks rose Friday, ended the week nearly flat, on gains for most sectors. Japan Display jumped on hopes that Apple may use liquid crystal technology on one of its new smartphones. The Nikke...

Asian shares rise on upbeat Japan data

-- 2017-12-08 01:45:04

Asian share indexes advanced Friday on healthy quarterly economic data from Japan, after US stocks ended higher on Thursday. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index rose 1.1 per cent to 22,741.23 and Sou...

Airstrike hits Somalia's capital, targeting Shabaab

-- 2017-12-07 12:14:58

An air strike hit a village south of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and a local official said the attack targeted Islamist al Shabaab militants fighting to topple the country’s central govern...

Asian shares near two-month low

Reuters 2017-12-07 12:08:59

Asian shares hovered near two-month lows on Thursday as softer oil and copper prices and uncertainty over US policy kept many investors on the sidelines, even as some high-tech bellwethers bounced bac...

Brexit: UK's bank prepares for the worst

BBC 2017-12-07 12:00:00

The UK's ability to attract talent is already suffering according to Standard Chartered chief executive Bill Winters. In an exclusive interview, he told the BBC the bank was "preparing for the worst"...

Indian drone ‘invades’ China’s airspace

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

An Indian drone has "invaded China's airspace and crashed" on its territory, Chinese state media said. Zhang Shuili, deputy director of the western theatre combat bureau, said the incident took place...

Congo human crisis 'worse than middle east’

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Conflict has forced 1.7 million people to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, causing "a mega-crisis", aid agencies say. This means that for the second consecutive year, D...

BoJ governor signals chance of rate hikes

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda stressed the need to look at the impact monetary policy has on the banking system and said changes in the economy could trigger a hike in the bank’s yield...

Indian central bank keeps policy rate steady

Reuters 2017-12-07 12:00:00

The Reserve Bank of India kept its policy rate steady on Wednesday, as widely expected, after inflation accelerated to a seven-month high and stronger economic growth reduced the need for monetary sti...

Tremor jolts Kashmir valley

-- 2017-12-07 11:41:59

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Kashmir in the early hours of Thursday, sources in the disaster management department said. The epicentre of the quake was near J&K-Xingjian border and its coord...

Memoir by Japanese WW2 emperor sold in auction

BBC 2017-12-07 11:18:19

A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito about how his country entered World War Two has fetched $220,000 (£164,000) at an auction in New York. Also known as the Imperial Monologue, it chr...

UAE expects to be taken off EU's tax blacklist

Reuters 2017-12-07 04:04:24

The United Arab Emirates expects to be taken off the European Union’s tax-haven blacklist after it meets criteria for transparency set by the EU, the UAE government said on Thursday. “We...

Southern India road crash claims nine lives

-- 2017-12-07 03:05:46

At least nine people have been killed and four others sustained injuries after a van in which the victims were travelling collided with a stationary truck at Thuvarankurichi near Trichy district in so...

Hormone contraceptives ‘may cause’ breast cancer

AP 2017-12-07 02:44:54

Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still modestly raise the ris...

Madagascar gets $44.5m IMF loan to boost economy

-- 2017-12-07 02:28:06

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has approved a further $44.5 million credit for Madagascar, as part of a drive to support the country’s economic recovery. The IMF and other inter...

WB predicts 4.9pc economic growth for Kenya

-- 2017-12-07 01:28:05

The World Bank has cut its 2017 growth estimate for Kenya’s economy to 4.9 per cent, which would be the slowest annual expansion in five years, It has cut the estimated growth due to the countr...

Japan's Q3 GDP seen revised up slightly

-- 2017-12-06 12:34:49

Japan’s economy was expected to expand slightly faster in the third quarter than first estimated, a Reuters poll found. Strong capital spending and showing robust exports and business invest...

China shares slip to three-month lows

-- 2017-12-06 12:12:31

Shanghai stocks fell to three-month lows on Wednesday, amid rising expectations that central banks will tighten liquidity, pushing interest rates higher. At 04:20 GMT, the Shanghai Composite index wa...

Japanese shares drop record low

-- 2017-12-06 12:04:32

Japan’s Nikkei share average slipped on Wednesday, falling below its 25-day moving average almost for the first time since September, as materials, shippers and other cyclical shares came under...

German train crash wounds six

-- 2017-12-06 12:03:37

Six people have been injured in a train crash near the German city of Düsseldorf, emergency services say. A passenger train collided with a freight train in the town of Meerbusch, according to r...

Police foil plot to assassinate British PM; two detained

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

The Metropolitan Police said that two men arrested last week had been charged with terrorism offenses and would appear in Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police sa...

Strong quake shakes central Philippines

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the central Philippines on Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The epicenter of the earthquake was recorded 14 kilomet...

French rock star Johnny Hallyday dies

AP 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Johnny Hallyday, France’s biggest rock star for more than half a century and an icon who packed sports stadiums and all but lit up the Eiffel Tower with his pumping pelvis and high-voltage tunes...

China Nov data to show economy debt-pressed

Reuters 2017-12-06 12:00:00

A raft of Chinese data in coming weeks is expected to show the world’s second-largest economy came under growing pressure in November as the government intensified crackdowns on polluting indust...

China shuts down 'teaching women obedience' school

BBC 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Chinese authorities have shut down an institute that was teaching women to be obedient and subordinate to men. The education bureau said the institute, which claimed it taught "traditional virtues",...

Wall Street losses pull down Asian stocks

Reuters 2017-12-06 11:44:02

Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday, dragged by losses on Wall Street as the technology sector stuttered yet again after a brief rebound, while the dollar sagged on lower long-term US yields. Weaker co...

Listeria outbreak kills dozens in South Africa

-- 2017-12-06 11:12:32

At least 36 people have died in South Africa after an outbreak of a food borne disease, Listeriosis, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said. A total of 557 cases had been reported, mostly in the e...

Australian economy slows in Q3

-- 2017-12-06 01:37:19

Australian gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.6 per cent in the third quarter, slowing from the previous quarter when it rose 0.9 per cent, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed. T...

Nikkei ends mostly lower

-- 2017-12-05 12:51:19

Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped on Tuesday with semiconductor equipment manufacturers’ stocks hit by weakness in US tech shares overnight, undercutting gains for banks and brokerages....

Pakistani man arrested for pro-India slogan

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A Pakistani man has been arrested in the city of Haripur for writing "Long live India" on a wall. Police said the 20-year-old match factory worker had admitted writing the slogan "Hindustan Zindabad"...