Scanning a bank statement into a computer may not sound particularly high-tech, but it's unsettling some of Asia's private bankers.

Ride-sharing company Uber has agreed to pay $10m (£7m) to settle a dispute over its background checks for drivers.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Saudi King Salman agreed to set up a $16-billion investment fund Saturday and settled a long-standing maritime dispute as the monarch continued his rare visit to the country.

Sporadic violence erupted as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in dozens of French cities on Saturday in the latest protests against labour reforms seen as threatening workers' rights.

Nigeria's financial capital Lagos is running on fumes again.

The gender pay gap in the United States is widest in rural states and smallest in urban areas, a Congressional report said on Friday.

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.

The Canadian economy gained 41,000 jobs in March, driven by demand for health care and social assistance workers, according to government data Friday which showed a drop in the unemployment rate to 7.1 percent.

A Chinese auto firm said Friday it is buying two foreign companies and their self-driving technologies for more than $1 billion, as the world's second-largest economy seeks to boost its foothold in the autonomous car market.

Nearly 60 million people live below the poverty line in Pakistan, making almost a third of the country poor under a new formula adopted by the government to measure poverty.

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.

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