By Jonathan Weil Imagine if I told you I could reduce my own body weight by 80 percent or more, on paper, through...
By Jonathan Weil Imagine if I told you I could reduce my own body weight by 80 percent or more, on paper, through...
By Agnieszka Flak Bad timing may defeat East Africa’s plan to become a major liquefied natural gas exporter if plants are delayed and...
NEW YORK: Apple fans queued in Asia, Europe and North America yesterday for the new iPhone 5, which appeared set to break sales...
DOHA/SINGAPORE: Denmark’s Maersk Oil is in talks with Qatar Petroleum to extend a production sharing contract for the offshore Al Shaheen oilfield by...
SINGAPORE: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday slashed its 2012 global trade outlook, citing the eurozone debt crisis and weak growth in the...
LONDON: Britain’s budget deficit widened to the biggest on record for any August, data showed yesterday, a day after the central bank governor...
TORONTO/LONDON: Research In Motion Ltd said it had restored service to all BlackBerry users affected by a service outage in Europe yesterday. The...
LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets mostly rose yesterday on mounting speculation over a potential new international bailout deal for debt-ridden Spain, dealers said....
ZURICH: Swiss mining group Xstrata said yesterday that it would put off responding to a sweetened merger bid from commodities giant Glencore until...
LONDON: Gold prices rose 1 percent yesterday to six-and-a-half month highs as expectations that central bank measures to stimulate growth would boost liquidity,...
NEW DELHI: India moved yesterday to encourage investors to put more money in the stock market and spur companies to borrow cheaply abroad...
NEW YORK: Oil rose for a second straight session yesterday as supply concerns and economic optimism fuelled a rebound from a 7 percent...
LONDON: Facebook said yesterday that it had switched off the facial-recognition tool that prompts users to “tag” photographs uploaded to its website following...
