World economy

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

Novelist Jane Austen may replace Charles Darwin on £10 note

26 Jun 2013

Riots in Xinjiang province in western China leave 27 dead

26 Jun 2013

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

China markets slump to new low amid credit-tightening fears

25 Jun 2013

Qatar's emir hands over power to 33-year-old son

25 Jun 2013

India, US to increase collaboration in higher education

25 Jun 2013

Ecuador to act on principles on asylum request from Snowden

25 Jun 2013

Musharraf faces trial for high treason: Nawaz Sharif

24 Jun 2013

Countries face US wrath as Snowden looks for assylum in Ecuador

24 Jun 2013

Climate change, Afghanistan top Kerry’s agenda on Indian visit

24 Jun 2013

The US and India have begun high-level talks on a wide range of issues, including nuclear cooperation, India’s role in the upcoming Afghanistan elections, and climate change

UK, China reach £21-bn currency swap deal

24 Jun 2013

Musharraf may become first Pakistani dictator to face treason charges

22 Jun 2013

"I am listening", Brazil’s President Rousseff tells protestors

22 Jun 2013

Saudi crackdown on illegal labour sends foreign workers into a tizzy

22 Jun 2013

New US trade chief wants India to relax rules for new trade deals

22 Jun 2013

Former deputy national security advisor Michael Froman, who has taken charge as the new US trade representative, wants India to open its markets to US agricultural exports

China’s central bank pushes for control on informal lending

21 Jun 2013

Eurozone private sector PMI at 15-month high

21 Jun 2013

China factory activity down to nine-month low in June on weak demand

20 Jun 2013

Swiss parliament rejects bill on bank disclosures

20 Jun 2013

Japan’s trade deficit rises 9.5% in May

20 Jun 2013

Much of the trade deficit is attributed to growing demand for fuel to meet the country’s energy needs due to shutting down of nuclear reactors following the Fukushima-Daiichi catastrophe in March 2011

The foreign policy impact of Iran's presidential election

18 Jun 2013

While defending Iran's nuclear programme and regional agenda, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor President-elect Hassan Rouhani understands that simply issuing ultimatums to the West and escalating tensions rather than striking compromises will not win relief from sanctions. By Michael Nayebi-Oskoui and Kamran Bokhari. (Republished with permission of Stratfor).

UK spied on foreign delegates at two G20 summit meetings in London: report

18 Jun 2013