QUESTION: My uncle has been running a small workshop (with six employees, including technicians, driver and helpers) to repair air-conditioners since 2000 but now due to some financial issues, he wants to close it down and look for a new opportunity somewhere else.

King Henry VIII, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, all lost their mothers to infections following childbirth, and literature abounds with tragic stories of maternal death, ....

By November 8, Americans will look back on August as the good old days.

Chances are, you’re sitting right now. Your back may be aching. Or maybe it’s your shoulders.

To consider the actions taken by the world’s major central banks in the past month is to invite an essential question: when – and where – will all this monetary easing end?

To say that the eurozone has not been performing well since the 2008 crisis is an understatement.

A country of 1.4 billion people and precious little to show for: it’s a taunt every Indian expat dreads after each Olympic Games.

Why is it so much harder to lose weight than to regain it? The findings of recent research, published in the journal Obesity, suggest that our bodies actually resist weight loss.

Dear Sir, With the Syrian regime forces continuing its bombing of Aleppo, thousands are seeking to leave the once thriving city. Meanwhile, the world is being a mute witness, reluctant to act to end the tragedy.

The world’s population is getting bigger – and older. With the elderly increasingly close to outnumbering their younger counterparts – by 2050, .....

When Nicolas Sarkozy went fishing for votes in the electoral waters of France’s far right for a second presidential term in 2012 it ended in defeat, as voters alienated by his rhetoric and disappointed by a moribund economy deserted him.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, every time the price of money has been reduced, demand for it falls and excess savings rise