Asia's manufacturing sector ended 2013 on a strong note, with expansion hitting multi-year highs in export-driven Japan and Taiwan, but signs of moderation in China raises concerns about the outlook for the new year.
Both official and private measures of...
The man who led South Korea's auto industry on a tear through the last decade said Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS) expect what will be their lowest annual sales growth since 2003 as the weak...
Few days before last year's yuletide, a major political statement with far-reaching constitutional import was made by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Professor Attahiru Jega to the effect that if the violent and bloody insurgency in...
Chelsea made a £49.4million loss in the last financial year, the English Premier League club announced on Wednesday.
Turnover for the year ending June 30, 2013 was a record £255.8m, but the club's early Champions League exit contributed to the...
The 2013 calendar finally stopped counting but is not one Ugandan football can be proud of.
We have had some measurably decent tales in some corners, highly hilarious in others, and downright unfathomable in cases where leaders have demonstrated incomprehensible...
Former Nigerian assistant coach, Fatai Amoo has described the Super Eagles Africa Cup of Nations title-winning feat as the most outstanding moment in football in the year 2013.
The Eagles edged West African foes, the Stallions of Burkina Faso to...
From Sydney to London to San Francisco, revelers welcomed 2014 with extravagant fireworks displays, giant street parties and, in a new departure, fruit-flavored mist.
In New York, hordes of people, many decked out in cartoonish hats, waving balloons or ringing...
Embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra returned to the capital, Bangkok, on Wednesday for traditional New Year celebrations in a display of unity alongside military chiefs before a looming showdown with anti-government protesters.
Demonstrators who accuse Yingluck of being the...
The United States wants Afghanistan to halt the release of 88 prisoners from an Afghan jail because they pose a serious threat to security, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, adding to strains between the two sides.
The United States only...
Lawyers argued Wednesday that former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf could not receive a fair trial on treason charges, a case that could test the relationship between an increasingly assertive civilian government and the army.
Musharraf, 70, faces the death...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
