Australia's incoming conservative government promised to re-boot a stalled mining boom and revive an appetite for investment on Sunday after leader Tony Abbott swept into office on a platform to scrap a
Upbeat Chinese trade and inflation data lifted Chinese shares to three-month highs and boosted regional shares on Monday, while Japanese shares rallied and the yen dropped after Tokyo won its bid to
An unmanned Minotaur 5 rocket blasted off from the Virginia coast on Friday to send a small NASA science satellite on its way to the moon. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment
Classic cars such as Ferraris, Bugattis and Bentleys soared by 28% in value in the year to June, outstripping gold, art and luxury London property thanks to rising demand from wealthy Asians.
For the third time in a row Lufthansa has been voted “Europe’s leading airline” at the World Travel Awards, following a voting process involving 230,000 travel tourism and hospitality professionals worldwide. Lufthansa
The Group of 20 will say in its summit communique that the global economy is improving but it is too early to declare an end to crisis, a Russian official involved in
Russia is sending the naval landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov to the eastern Mediterranean, state news agency Interfax said on Friday, reinforcing its presence near Syria. Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar
U.S. job creation probably picked up in August, signaling a steady pace of economic growth that would give the Federal Reserve ammunition to start scaling back its massive monetary stimulus this month.
China shares crept towards three-week highs early Friday, with Hong Kong markets also modestly higher, ahead of more August data that could deepen optimism that the world's second-largest economy is on a
The BRICS group of emerging economies will contribute $100 bln to a fighting fund to steady currency markets destabilised by an expected pullback of U.S. monetary stimulus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said
