SAN FRANCISCO: Computer software giant Microsoft Corporation announced on Monday that it will acquire business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn Corporation...

BEIJING: A total of 96 contracts worth 15 billion U.S. dollars were signed on Monday between Chinese and German companies...

BEIJING: China’s largest ride-hailing application Didi Chuxing yesterday received a strategic investment of US$605 million from China Life Insurance, comprising...

PUTRAJAYA: The National Export Council (NEC) has formulated several initiatives to promote public-private partnerships in the quest to drive Malaysia’s...

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man has been jailed three months for illegally importing three red-whiskered bulbul birds from Malaysia to Singapore...

DUBLIN: More than 39,800 contraband cigarettes have been seized in west Dublin. They were found following the search of a...

NEW YORK: In a revelation that shouldn’t surprise anybody, Peabody Energy, the United States’ largest coal company, has been bankrolling...

LONDON: Some worlds have more than one sun in their sky. Now scientists say they’ve confirmed the existence of the...

LONDON: Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will shatter the symbolic barrier of 400 parts per million (ppm) this year and will...

WASHINGTON: Bombarding Martian rock with X-rays, NASA’s Curiosity rover has dug up the first mineral evidence of an explosive type...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Asian stocks slipped, after the biggest three-day drop since February, amid investor anxiety before central bank meetings and Britain’s...

FRANKFURT: European stocks dropped to their lowest in more than three months Monday, with bank shares among decliners as investors...

OTTAWA: Canadian stocks fell a fourth day, the longest stretch of losses in two months, as global markets retreated on...

NEW YORK: U.S. stocks fell Monday following steep declines in Europe and Asia that came amid fresh jitters about the...

LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad has urged the Federal Board of Revenue...

ATHENS: The Athens Stock Exchange fell by 3 percentage points on Monday following a plunge of 4.18 percent on Friday,...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Oil and Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project and...

KARACHI: Brisk shipping was recorded at the Port where seven ships CV lioyd Don Carlos, CV Nicoline Maersk, CV Castor-N,...

KARACHI: Following were the Movements of Ships at Karachi Port Trust (KPT) during last 48 hours, ending at 0700 hours...

ISLAMABAD: The Ogra has issued 71 different licences in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sector during the current fiscal year....