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The World Bank – whose aim is “to end extreme poverty within a generation and boost shared prosperity” – warned that simultaneous weakness in most major emerging markets “is a concern for achieving the goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity...

And it continues to fall short of hitting that goal, as measured by the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge.

It will cut about 3,000 sales associate jobs and more other back-office and call center positions.

Thanks to the standard, the TVs will produce higher brightness, higher contrast and more vibrant colors, Sony said.

Hundreds of thousands of people backing a campaign asking Barack Obama to pardon convicted murderer Steven Avery look set to be disappointed.

The Caixin/Markit index, based on a survey of factory purchasing managers, fell to 48.2 in December from 48.6 the previous month.

Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: “UK construction companies finished 2015 in a positive fashion, as overall output growth recovered from November’s seven-month low”.

Guns N’ Roses founding members Slash and Duff McKagan are set to reunite with Axl Rose as the band headlines this year’s Coachella festival in California.

General Motors (GM), the century-old vehicle company behind major automotive brands Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and Vauxhall, announced today that it’s investing $500 million in ride-sharing company Lyft.

Iranian pilgrims would still be welcome to visit Islam’s holiest sites in Makkah and Medinah in western Saudi Arabia, either for the annual Hajj or at other times of year on the Umrah pilgrimage, Al Jubeir said.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index edged up 4.04 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 2,016.70.

A statement read on North Korean television said a “miniaturized” hydrogen bomb had been tested to raise the communist country’s “nuclear might to the next level” in defending itself against the U.S. and other enemies.

One of the principal electoral rhetoric of Modi always was that there have been enough of attacks on the border and it is time for Modi government now (bahut hua seema par waar; Abki baar Modi sarkaar). The reports reveal that the terrorists came in a jeep that was a day earlier...

Pakistan, an ally of Saudi Arabia, said that disunity in the region could provide advantageous grounds to the dark forces of extremism and terrorism.

The water receded in most places late Sunday but continued to rise in a few today.