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MECCA: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (Jul 29) begins hosting the annual Haj pilgrimage, dramatically down-scaled due to the coronavirus pandemic...

HONG KONG: Gold hit a record high on Monday (Jul 27) as investors rushed into the safe-haven on concerns about...

SYDNEY: Australia's second most populous state of Victoria will take longer than the current six-week lockdown period to stem the...

MAUI, Hawaii: Hurricane Douglas bore down on Hawaii on Sunday (Jul 26) packing torrential rains and damaging winds as it...

WASHINGTON: Top aides to President Donald Trump said on Sunday (Jul 26) they agreed in principle with Senate Republicans on...

MADRID: The Spanish government insisted on Sunday (Jul 26) that despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases, the country was...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's party raced ahead of rivals in the latest opinion poll, putting the charismatic...

SYDNEY: Australia's competition regulator has launched court proceedings against Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the expanded use of personal...

MANCHESTER: Manchester United and Chelsea secured places in the Champions League with wins on the final day of the Premier...

PORT MANSFIELD, Texas: Hurricane Hanna left a trail of destruction on the Texas coast on Sunday (Jul 26), overturning tractor-trailers,...

LONDON: Britain unveiled plans to tackle an "obesity time bomb" on Monday (Jul 27), banning TV and online adverts for...

Amid a tide of retrenchments, hiring is all the more challenging with the deluge of applications swarming in, says the...

BEIJING: China's thousands of state-owned enterprises, local governments and public institutions are expanding hiring as a record number of students...

U.S. stock futures slipped and Asian shares came under pressure in early Monday trade as tit-for-tat consulate closures in China...

NEW YORK: After several weeks of trading in narrow ranges, bitcoin breached US$10,000 on Sunday (Jul 26) for the first...

MIAMI: Florida on Sunday (Jul 26) became the second state after California to overtake New York, the worst-hit state at...

WASHINGTON: The United States has doubled its investment - to nearly US$1 billion - to expedite development of a potential...

China should be firm in adopting an expansionary fiscal policy aimed at accelerating economic growth, says Yu Yongding. BEIJING: COVID-19...

BERLIN: Business software group SAP said on Sunday it planned to float Qualtrics, the U.S. specialist in measuring online customer...

BERLIN: Germany must toughen its rules for auditing and accounting to prevent another billion-euro scam like the Wirecard scandal, Bundesbank...