Etihad Airways said on Wednesday its net profit for 2015 surged 41 percent to $103 million on the back of rising passenger numbers and cargo volumes.

Trade protection measures cannot solve the fundamental problem facing the global steel industry, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday in response to Australia imposing import duties on Chinese rebar.

French authorities have sent McDonald's France a 300 million euro ($341 million) bill for unpaid taxes on profits believed to have been funnelled through Luxembourg and Switzerland, business magazine L'Expansion reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine will closely track assets belonging to owners of banks to stop the offering of sweetheart loans to shareholders - a practice that helped bankrupt 40 percent of the banking sector, a deputy governor of the central bank said.

Britain's unemployment rate stands at its lowest level in more than a decade, but the jobless total has risen for the first time in almost a year, data showed Wednesday.

Oil prices fell on Wednesday as investor focus returned to worries about oversupply after Kuwaiti workers ended a three-day strike that had halved the nation's crude output.

Global payments technology company Visa announced the launch of its “Swipe & Save” campaign for its customers in Bangladesh.

The German government on Wednesday stuck to its economic growth forecast of 1.7 percent for this year, despite a slowdown in emerging markets, as strong domestic demand replaces exports as the main pillar of Europe's largest economy.

The European Union charged Google on Wednesday with abusing the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system, opening a second front against the US technology giant that could lead to large fines.

Uncertainty surrounding Britain's vote on whether to stay in or leave the European Union has left small and medium-sized British companies facing a 35.6 billion pound currency risk, a report said on Wednesday.

India should find ways to support higher economic growth on a sustainable basis and not fritter away gains as it did in the past, the country's central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Wednesday.

Outside a small store on a dirt track in the remote Ethiopian town of Doni, long queues wait for government cash handouts by the most modern of methods: mobile phone.

A group of international steel producing countries has called for urgent action to curb overproduction. The call comes days after international talks to find measures to tackle the industry crisis failed.

Iran faces a struggle to increase oil exports because many of its tankers are tied up storing crude, some are not seaworthy, and foreign shipowners remain reluctant to carry its cargoes.

On a warm September morning in 2014, the 10-man board of Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas met on the ninth floor of a blue glass tower in Sao Paulo.

The Indian finance ministry is asking for regular progress reports from tax collectors and has set a date for an amnesty to pay off arrears on undeclared domestic assets, as the government intensifies efforts to meet its ambitious deficit target.

The Palestinian economy is losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year over outdated or insufficiently enforced fiscal agreements with Israel, a World Bank report said on Monday.

Morgan Stanley's quarterly profit more than halved as the Wall Street bank's trading and investment banking businesses took a hit from market volatility early in the year.

Greece is examining a proposal by its creditors for additional cuts in return for debt relief, a government source said Monday as reform talks with senior EU-IMF officials were due to resume.

Bailed-out Cyprus recorded a 40-percent hike in tourist arrivals in March, setting the stage for a record year for the holiday island and indicating an economic revival, official data showed Monday.