Unemployment in the eurozone dropped to a three-year low of 11.1 percent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that the fragile jobs market in Europe could be on the mend.

Recent unrest in the Middle East and North Africa has little impact on oil prices because the market has become "comfortable" with risk, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister said Wednesday.

The Reserve Bank of India is set to cut interest rates on Tuesday for the third time this year as inflation has eased enough to allow the

Standard Chartered's incoming Chief Executive Bill Winters is expected to raise capital and cut the bank's dividend later this year, potentially forced to act by a tough stress test of its Asian loans, investors and analysts said.

China and South Korea on Monday formally signed a free trade agreement (FTA) that would remove most tariffs between Asia's largest and fourth-largest economies, whose trade is already worth more than $200 billion.

Malaysia Airlines is "technically bankrupt", its new German CEO said Monday as the carrier slashed 6,000 jobs as part of plans to

Chicken prices in India soared to a record high after a heat wave killed more than 17 million birds in May, as temperatures regularly

South Africa on Monday rolled out tough new visa regulations requiring children travelling into the country to carry unabridged birth

Indonesia's inflation accelerated in May to its highest level in five months due to increased food prices, data showed Monday, as people stocked up before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The World Bank on Monday said it saw some improvement in Russia's battered economy, predicting it would shrink by 2.7 percent this year and return to growth of 0.7 percent in 2016.

Indonesia's inflation accelerated in May to its highest level in five months due to increased food prices, data showed Monday, as people stocked up before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Shares of US automakers may finally be able to accelerate. Investors are closely awaiting next week's May sales data, expected to come in near record levels.

North Korea has updated farming methods and switched crops that could help soften the blow of drought and avert a disastrous food shortage, an aid worker and an analyst said on Sunday, after a UN official warned of another "huge food deficit".

Years of uncertainty and economic pain spent keeping Greece in the euro zone boils down in June to a handful of make-or-break

Smart living and wearable technology will take centre stage at Asia's largest tech trade show from Tuesday with gadgets promising to do everything from analysing state of mind to identifying burglars.

Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to drum up support in Germany for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) ahead of

Airbus could announce "several hundred" airplane orders at the June 15-21 Paris Airshow, Fabrice Bregier, chief executive of the planemaking unit of Airbus Group, said on Saturday.

Russia should be invited to rejoin a summit of the Group of Seven industrial powers next weekend, the heads of two German business lobby groups were quoted as saying on Sunday.

The US economy shrank 0.7 percent in the first three months of 2015, compared to the same period last year.

The Russian economy will not start recovering from crisis for another year, ex-finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Friday, forecasting