World economy

Thai Constitution Court annuls 2 February elections

21 Mar 2014

Retirees ‘free to buy Lamborghini’ as UK eases pension norms

21 Mar 2014

Osborne looks to net £4 billion more from crackdown on tax debt

20 Mar 2014

President Putin reclaims Crimea as part of Russia

20 Mar 2014

Euro zone nations must close ‘zombie’ banks, says top regulator

19 Mar 2014

Crimea votes to re-join Russia; EU, US impose sanctions

18 Mar 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed the referendum in Crimea in which 96 per cent voted to join Russia, even as the EU and the US clamped a ban on travel and ordered freezing of assets of a number of officials from Russia and Ukraine

OECD postpones Russia’s accession process

14 Mar 2014

Top UK government scientist calls for thrust on GM crops

14 Mar 2014

IMF calls for efficient redistributive policies to bridge rising inequality

14 Mar 2014

Nations should design redistributive policies so as to bridge the growing chasm between rich and poor that is weighing on global growth and fuelling political instability, IMF said in its latest policy dialogue

Seven dead, dozens injured after two buildings collapse in Manhattan

13 Mar 2014

New York building explodes, catches fire

12 Mar 2014

Exxon and Shell in legal limbo as Crimea may join Russia

12 Mar 2014

Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc had planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells, in a region that comes under Crimean waters

Exxon and Shell in legal limbo as Crimea may join Russia

12 Mar 2014

Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc had planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells, in a region that comes under Crimean waters

Exxon and Shell in legal limbo as Crimea may join Russia

12 Mar 2014

Exxon and Royal Dutch Shell Plc had planned to spend $735 million drilling two wells, in a region that comes under Crimean waters

Pak court throws out Pervez Musharraf’s ranting lawyer

12 Mar 2014

China likely to cut controls on interest rates

11 Mar 2014

China to allow private banks, liberalise interest rates

11 Mar 2014

S Arabia warns Qatar against backing Syrian opposition

10 Mar 2014

China won’t bend on territorial claims, says foreign minister

08 Mar 2014

US trade gap marginally higher at $39.1 bn in January

08 Mar 2014

Saudi Arabia awards death to 3 men for 2003 terror attack

08 Mar 2014

Saudi Arabia clubs Egypt’s Brotherhood with terrorist outfits

08 Mar 2014

The king’s decree followed the enactment of a sweeping new counterterrorism law that targets virtually any criticism of the government

Crimea votes to join Russia, West dismayed

07 Mar 2014

The sudden moves by Crimea, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula, has unnerved European Union leaders who held an emergency summit to look for ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation.

BoE suspends staffer over forex market rigging review

06 Mar 2014

EU to offer $15 bn package to Ukraine

06 Mar 2014

Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday said the package was designed to assist a committed, inclusive and reforms-oriented government to rebuild a stable and prosperous future Ukraine