Shares of US automakers may finally be able to accelerate. Investors are closely awaiting next week's May sales data, expected to come in near record levels.

North Korea has updated farming methods and switched crops that could help soften the blow of drought and avert a disastrous food shortage, an aid worker and an analyst said on Sunday, after a UN official warned of another "huge food deficit".

GOOGLE on Thursday unveiled its pay-with-a-phone system for Android devices, ramping up its challenge to Apple in mobile payments.

Malaysia-based AirAsia, the region's biggest low-cost carrier by fleet size, said its first-quarter net profit climbed seven percent year-

The US economy shrank 0.7 percent in the first three months of 2015, compared to the same period last year.

The Russian economy will not start recovering from crisis for another year, ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Friday, forecasting

Japanese household spending unexpectedly fell in April while inflation and factory output were also lacklustre, a string of official data

In India's upmarket "Millennium City", labourers building luxury homes say they have little choice but to toil in the extreme heat,

The United States and Japan pressed Greece and its European partners to resolve Athens' debt crisis and avoid rattling the eurozone

India posted annual growth of 7.3 percent on Friday, overtaking China in the first three months of 2015, but analysts warned further

Philippine economic growth in the first quarter slowed to a three-year low of 5.2 percent, well below forecasts, due to lethargic government spending

Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean fell 16 percent in 2014, reversing a decade-long growth trend as the

Etihad Airways net profits surged by more than half in 2014 to $73 million, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier said Thursday, buoyed by increased passenger numbers and further expansion into the European market.

Finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven wealthiest nations gathered in Dresden Thursday to seek ways of boosting global growth, while the Greek crisis also cast its shadow over the talks.

No longer is schmoozing over long lunches and fine wines enough; Swiss private bankers are turning to video games and virtual reality to attract a new generation of sceptical clients and see off digital rivals.

Cinemas, Rolls-Royces and rooms so plush they could belong in a five-star hotel: private hospital operators in India are all but rolling

Japan cleared the way on Wednesday for a resumption of nuclear power, four years after the world's worst atomic disaster in two-and-a-half decades led to the shutdown of all the country's reactors and fuelled public opposition to the industry.

As workers gathered around a table in a cheap restaurant to discuss strike action against their shoe factory bosses, Chinese police barged in and dragged away their leaders.

Xiaomi, China's largest smartphone maker, is testing the European market with its online store offering fitness bands, headphones and power banks in France, Germany and the UK.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the country should not cut itself off from foreign investment and technologies.