GENEVA – A follow-up mission to Mauritania by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian, has been...
FRANKFURT – A German court has ordered Google to block search results in Germany linking to photos of a sex party involving former Formula One boss...
WASHINGTON – Natural gas futures surged to $5 for the first time in more than three years as frigid weather spurred demand and sent U.S. stockpiles...
ABUJA – A coalition of Civil Society Organisations under the aegis of Say No Campaign on Friday in Abuja gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
SEOUL – Samsung Electronics, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones and TVs, has reported a drop in quarterly profit for the first time in two...
BEIJING – China’s banking regulator ordered its regional offices to increase scrutiny of credit risks in the coal-mining industry, said two people with knowledge of the...
NEW YORK – Verizon on Wednesday became the first major US telecom carrier to release a “transparency report,” and said it received 321,545 data queries last...
LONDON – A global flight from emerging market assets gathered pace on Friday, sending the Turkish lira to a record low and setting global shares on...
NEW YORK – Ford is enlisting top U.S. universities to make self-driving cars (such as the one shown above) a reality, and announced Wednesday that it...
OSLO – “Norway welcomes the ceasefire agreement in South Sudan. It is crucial that the parties now keep strictly to these agreements. All hostilities must cease...
