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Sterling suffered a dizzying “flash crash” yesterday, sending Brexit shockwaves across markets, while weak US jobs data calmed talk of an imminent Fed rate rise.
Departing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday hailed his likely successor Antonio Guterres as a ‘superb choice’, ahead of the former Portuguese prime minister's expected backing by the Security Council.
A Singaporean diver has died after being struck on the chest by stingray in a closed underwater attraction in the city-state, the aquarium's owners said on Wednesday.
The final four of Europe’s premier basketball competition, the Turkish Airlines Euroleague, will be hosted in Istanbul from May 19-21, 2017.
Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize yesterday for his pioneering work on autophagy – a process whereby cells “eat themselves” – which when disrupted can cause Parkinson’s and diabetes.
Europe’s pioneering Rosetta spacecraft dramatically concluded its 12-year odyssey yesterday, crash-landing into the comet it orbited and probed for two years in a quest to demystify the Solar System’s origins.
German zookeepers shot dead a lion yesterday after two of the animals escaped from their enclosure and a tranquiliser failed to stop one of them, the zoo’s director said.
With the delivery on Tuesday of 27, 500m3 of the shale product ethane from the US to Scotland’s Grangemouth crude oil refinery, there has been a lot of comment in the UK media about the role of overseas gas suppliers to the UK.
Saudi Arabia’s stock market fell sharply for a second straight day yesterday, leading the entire region down, in response to weak oil prices and government austerity measures.
The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) will build a pilot fan village near the Sealine Beach resort which will be able to house up to 2000 fans in Arabian tents during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, organisers said yesterday.
Pakistan would treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked the Indus Water Treaty regulating river flows between the two nations, Pakistan's top foreign official said on Tuesday.
