A number of emerging market economies are experiencing increasing financial market pressures as the appreciation of US dollar has raised servicing costs...

A South African court has ruled that an asset seizure order against the controversial India-born Gupta family linked to ex-president Jacob Zuma be lifted...

The International Monetary Fund announced the release of the latest instalment of Sri Lanka's USD 1.5 billion bailout, but warned that restructuring the...

Pakistan's Interior Ministry has asked for the suspension of former President Pervez Musharraf's computerised national identity card (CNIC) and passport,...

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has directed all government procurement officers to step down to allow fresh wetting by polygraph (a lie detector test)

Malaysia last week ended a four-year hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after searching more than 80,000 square km without finding any...

Qatar announced that it will ban goods originating from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates almost a year after the four Arab counties...

Karthik Nemmani, a 14-year-old Indian-American boy of McKinney, Texas, won the 91st Scripps National Spelling Bee, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after...

Almost three months after his widely talked about trip to India, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau indulged in some self-deprecating humour and called...

Madras High Court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to explain the circumstances that led to police firing into a crowd in Thoothukudi by June 6.