World economy
Snowden widens asylum search after Russia says ‘nyet’
02 Jul 2013
Snowden has now nowhere to go with Ecuador saying it never intended to facilitate his flight from Hong Kong and Venezuela dilly-dallying on the issue of providing asylum to the fugitive whistleblower
Apple again avoids taxes in the UK
02 Jul 2013
China’s manufacturing slows down in June
01 Jul 2013
Kuwait to invest $5 bn in UK infrastructure
01 Jul 2013
Kuwait Investment Authority, which has more than $400 billion in assets under management, has already invested $24 billion in the UK, including in HSBC, BP and Vodafone.
US consumer confidence remains high in June
29 Jun 2013
'Bad English' saved Japan's banks from global crisis: Japanese Dy PM
28 Jun 2013
Lax understanding of English helped Japanese banks emerge largely unscathed from the global financial crisis, says Japan's deputy prime minister and finance minister Taro Aso
New US immigration bill gets Senate nod
28 Jun 2013
US Vice President Joe Biden says bringing hard working immigrants out of the shadows and into the US economy will improve the country's balance sheet by nearly a trillion dollars over the next 20 years
OFT calls for review of payday lenders
28 Jun 2013
Rudd back as Australian PM after Gillard loses labour ballot
27 Jun 2013
Julia Gillard lost the Labour Party leadership ballot just months ahead of the general elections due in September to rival Kevin Rudd, whom she had ousted in 2010
Pak agency formally charges Musharraf with Benazir killing
25 Jun 2013
The chargesheet submitted today contained the statements of four witnesses, including two American reporters
Italy’s ex-PM Berlusconi gets 7-yr sentence in sex scandal
25 Jun 2013
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to seven years in jail and banned from public office by a lower court in Milan