BRITAIN asked China to tackle over-capacity in its steel industry on Saturday, hoping to stem the flood of cheap imports into Europe which India's Tata Steel said caused it to pull out of the United Kingdom, putting 15,000 jobs at risk.

Wells Fargo & Co admitted to deceiving the US government into insuring thousands of risky mortgages, as it formally reached a record $1.2 billion settlement of a US Department of Justice lawsuit.

From young start-ups to business giants, British entrepreneurs are eyeing a rapidly expanding global market for Muslim consumers with a range of brands from clothes to greetings cards to online gym courses.

SRI Lanka has asked China to swap some of the $8 billion it owes Beijing for equity in infrastructure projects and offered to sell stakes in its companies to Chinese ones, Colombo officials said on Saturday.

Iran is exporting around 350,000 barrels of crude oil a day to India and hopes to increase this number, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted as saying on Saturday after meeting Indian counterpart Dharmendra Pradhan.

The Italian government revised down its growth forecast for 2016 on Friday but swore the gloomy figures would not lead have an impact on the country's budget.

With the world economy entering a more uncertain phase and the top central banks sounding ever more cautious, attention may turn in the coming week to signs of whether years of aggressive stimulus have yielded any significant rise in inflation.

China on Tuesday imposed restrictions on imports of North Korean coal and iron, Beijing's commerce ministry said, in line with United

Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd (BSE) aims to list next year, its CEO said, in a deal that will raise the profile of Asia's oldest bourse at a

China on Tuesday denounced accusations arising from a massive leak from a Panamanian law firm as "groundless" and moved to limit

Global economic recovery is still "too slow" and "too fragile" in the face of growing risks from a slowdown in China and subdued

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its policy interest rate by 25 basis points to 6.50 percent on Tuesday, reducing it to a more than

India's sugar exports have come to a halt as dealers have not signed new contracts in the past five days after local prices surged on expectations of lower output, trade sources said on Tuesday.

Steel giant ArcelorMittal said Tuesday it had successfully completed a three-billion-dollar (2.64-billion-euro) rights issue aimed at cutting its debt pile amid a global steel glut.

Unlike a real-world office, a business website is up and accessible to customers 24 hours a day. Customers will always get to know about the products and services on offer, freeing them from the compulsion of office hours. Businesses can even have a 24-hour product sales mechanism online.

Iran's oil exports have surpassed 2 million barrels per day following the lifting of sanctions under its nuclear deal with world powers, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Sunday.

Norway's main industrial trade union reached a wage deal with employers on Sunday, averting a strike affecting more than 26,000 workers, the parties said.

Consumer sentiment in India and China remains resilient despite a challenging economic backdrop, but households in Russia, South Africa and Brazil have become more pessimistic, an annual survey showed.

The closure of Tata Steel's operations in Britain would leave a hole in manufacturers' supply chains, dealing a blow to thousands of smaller firms across the country and creating a logistical headache for the car industry.

Until early the 1990s, Japanese girls received homemaking education while boys didn't On paper, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to get more women into Japan's shrinking workforce - also referred to as "womenomics" - looked great.