Year: 2015

SHANGHAI: China's yuan entered midday weaker against the dollar on Friday after shedding early gains that had been led by ...

MALI: Paleontologist Dr. Stephen Lautenschlager from the University of Bristol has conducted a very interesting study on the strength of ...

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would approve $502 million tranche of loan for Pakistan ...

HARARE: Zimbabwe has resumed chrome exports for the first time since 2011 when the government imposed a ban of raw ...

WASHINGTON: Diamonds may not be as rare as once believed, but this finding in a new Johns Hopkins University research ...

NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has suffered a 15% slide in first quarter earnings as advertisers continue to shy ...

MUMBAI: The Indian rupee weakened by another 12 paise to trade at a fresh one-month low of 65.87 against the ...

CALIFORNIA: Chip maker Nvidia Corp. said its third-quarter profit rose 42%, propelled by demand from personal-computer users who want to ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore share prices opened slightly stronger on Friday, with the Straits Times Index up 1.01 points or 0.03 per ...

NEW YORK: While McDonald’s tries to make a comeback amid falling sales, Shake Shack announced in its third-quarter report that ...

NEW YORK: KAR Auction Services Inc., parent company of ADESA, reported third-quarter net income increased 10 percent to $52.3 million ...

LOS ANGELES: The signature song from Disney’s smash hit Frozen advises listeners to “let it go,” but if there’s one ...

FRANCE: Mars may once have supported life but is now cold and dry, and scientists said Thursday that a stormy ...

CHICAGO: Tribune Publishing Co. on Thursday reported a preliminary third-quarter loss that is expected to be revised to reflect a ...

SEOUL:  South Korean stocks started higher Friday as investors piled up bio shares after Hanmi Pharmaceutical announced a mega license ...

BRENT: Black holes are paradoxically some of the brightest objects in the universe. It’s not the black holes themselves that ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Today following the bell, New Relic reported the results of the second quarter of its fiscal 2016, including ...

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's ruler has warned his country's income is down some 60 percent due to low global oil prices, ...

COLOMBO: Sixty percent of the affluent class are not paying taxes, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said adding that he Budget ...

JAKARTA: Indonesia's business tendency index (BTI) and consumer tendency index (CTI) improved in the third quarter of 2015. Central Statistics ...