WOMEN are among the most excluded groups in India, with almost 43 percent of working-age women confined to domestic work, while many who do work outside the home face exploitation and low pay, according to the India Exclusion Report.

Russia's biggest carmaker Avtovaz, majority owned by Renault-Nissan, said on Monday its chief executive Bo Andersson is to step down.

China's foreign exchange reserves fell $28.57 billion in February, slightly less than expected and easing from January's slump, suggesting the central bank is scaling back its interventions to support the yuan as capital outflows slow.

She fled Cuba with her bourgeois family as revolution brewed, and later married into one of Europe's royal dynasties.

CareersClub Pty Ltd Australia has recently started its operations in Bangladesh and organised a workshop in collaboration with the business school of Independent University of Bangladesh on its premises.

Four more foreign banks have been given preliminary approval to operate in Myanmar, state media reported Sunday, the latest government attempt to attract overseas investment to the emergent nation.

China's economy isn't headed for a hard landing and isn't dragging on the global economy, China's top economic planner said on Sunday, but uncertainty and instability in the global economy do pose a risk to the country's growth.

India will consider merging some of its more than two dozen state-run banks, the finance minister said on Saturday, as the government seeks to improve efficiency at the ailing lenders that dominate the nation's banking sector.

As online deliveries surge and shop sales fall, Britain's retailers are looking to refit their once bustling superstores with new attractions such as rivals' fashion brands to fill empty spaces and keep shoppers coming through the door.

New rules to hold bosses responsible for wrongdoing at British banks is deterring some bankers from taking on senior management roles and even prompting big-hitters to play down their own importance, say legal and compliance experts.

German luxury carmaker BMW will throw a lavish 100th birthday party on Monday, looking back at its often troubled history and forward as it seeks to adapt to the age of "personal mobility".

China's National People's Congress has set the country's growth target for 2016 in a range of 6.5 percent -7 percent.

Oil prices fell Wednesday as traders awaited the release of US crude inventory data, which are expected to show a further rise in stockpiles.

ITALY recovered a record 14.9 billion euros in unpaid tax in 2015, helped by a new "no questions asked" appeal to suspected dodgers to put their affairs in order.

AUSTRALIA'S economy strengthened last year supported by consumer and government spending, data showed Wednesday, with the better-than-expected figures raising hopes the resources-dependent nation is emerging out of a recent slump.

EUROPE'S largest aircraft manufacturer Airbus started construction Wednesday on a new facility to deliver wide-body planes in China, as it faces off against bitter US rival Boeing for market share in the world's second-largest economy.

JEWELLERS across gold-loving India started a three-day strike on Wednesday in a bid to force the government to shelve plans for a controversial excise tax announced in this week's budget.

New car registrations in Germany, a key indicator of demand in Europe's top economy, rose strongly in February, data showed on Wednesday.

Spain's unemployment queue inched up slightly in February, the government said Wednesday, due mainly to a rise in the number of jobless in the agriculture sector.

"If you don't die by yourself, we'll help you," threaten the phone messages that Natalya, a 69-year-old Russian pensioner, has been receiving for months after falling further behind on her credit card payments.