Year: 2015

DAMASCUS: Syria is negotiating an unusual deal to exchange 100,000 tonnes of hard durum wheat from Syria for 100,000 tonnes ...

SYDNEY: In a move to further diversify its hiring practices, Microsoft has announced that it will make a concerted effort ...

LONDON: Apple CEO Tim Cook has come up with good news for all the employees of the company. Cook has ...

BASRA: Iraq is discussing its financial situation with the International Monetary Fund but has made no decision to request emergency ...

TOKYO: Nintendo have delayed much anticipated Zelda Wii U game until next year. This unfortunate news has come to the ...

KYIV: Vehicle production in Ukraine plunged by 93.5% in January-March 2015, to 922 vehicles, according to tentative data from the ...

NEW DELHI: Flipkart expanding its team by adding top executives from some of the most well-known companies in existence. The ...

TOKYO: HTC posted results for the first three months of 2015, while still managing to notch up a fourth successive ...

BEIJING: Chinese investors, for the first time, on Wednesday used the entire 10.5 billion yuan ($1.69 billion) daily investment quota ...

LONDON: Twitter has unveiled a big change to its ‘quote tweet’ functionality. From now, iPhone and web users will be ...

SINGAPORE: The Straits Times Index (STI) was down 0.33 point, or 0.01 per cent, to 3,465.29 points at 9.10am on ...

RIYADH: Riyad Bank, Saudi Arabia's third-largest listed lender by assets, posted an 8.6 percent increase in its first-quarter net profit ...

LONDON: MIT researchers have developed a new, ultrasensitive magnetic-field detector that is 1,000 times more energy-efficient than its predecessors. It ...

DUBAI: Dubai-based port operator DP World says it has reached a deal to acquire the Fairview container terminal in Canada ...

ROME: Asian stocks were mostly higher Wednesday after Japan's central bank maintained its expansively easy monetary policy. Japan's benchmark Nikkei ...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has revved up crude production to its highest rate on record, feeding unexpectedly strong demand from foreign ...

MELBOURNE: DP World is threatening to derail the Victorian government's planned $6 billion privatisation of the Port of Melbourne by ...

KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange maintained the positive rally till midday on Wednesday, recording a 370.78 points rise to reach ...

EUROPE: Researchers at NYU Polytechnic have achieved a major breakthrough in underwater robotics: They have proven that a robotic Fortunately, ...

TAIPEI:  Taiwan stocks fell on Wednesday as investors took profits on tech shares following recent gains. As of 0115 GMT, ...