A Tunisian military court sentenced ousted Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to 20 years jail in absentia on Wednesday for inciting violence during a police attempt to smuggle his nephew out o

Rebekah Brooks, a trusted confidante of Rupert Murdoch and friend to a succession of British prime ministers, appears in a London court on Wednesday accused of hindering a police investigation into ph

JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon will tell lawmakers that the bank's recent multibillion-dollar trading loss occurred because poorly managed traders embarked in January on a misguided hedging stra

With a potential air market of hundreds of millions of people, airlines ought to be hammering on India's door - yet global airline executives say it would be madness to invest in a domestic carrier th

Sahara Group is set to buy New York's landmark Plaza Hotel for $570 million, The Times of India reported on Tuesday.

The deal for the Plaza, the 105-year-old luxury hotel near New York's Central Park

China's annual economic growth could fall below 7 per cent in the second quarter if weak activity persists in June, an influential government adviser was quoted on Wednesday as saying.

The forecast b

Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare make Canada the best place to be a woman among the world's biggest economies, a global poll

Telecoms carrier Reliance Communications said on Wednesday the Singapore stock exchange approved its undersea cable unit for an IPO that could raise more than $1 billion.

Shares in Reliance Communica

Bombs targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad and police in southern Iraq killed at least 44 people on Wednesday in a wave of attacks during a major religious festival, police and hospital sources said.

A huge archive of letters, papers and photographs that shed new light on Mahatma Gandhi and his time in South Africa will be auctioned in London next month and is expected to fetch 500,000-700,000 pou