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Weakest return for Norway sovereign wealth fund since 2011 The world's biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway's public pension fund, posted a 2.7-percent return in 2015 owing to real estate and the global stock market recovery.

09 March 2016

Brexit 'biggest domestic risk to financial stability': Carney Britain voting to leave the European Union would create a domestic risk to British financial stability: Bank of England governor Mark Carney

09 March 2016

Finland probes mystery spike in radioactivity Finnish authorities are investigating a mysterious spike in levels of radioactive caesium-137 detected over Helsinki.

09 March 2016

EU delays weedkiller decision amid cancer uproar The EU postponed a decision to extend the approval of a key weedkiller for another 15 years amid an uproar that it may cause cancer.

08 March 2016

Tenor Alagna saves Met Opera but risks his voice When Jonas Kaufmann suddenly bowed out of the Metropolitan Opera's production of Manon Lescaut, Roberto Alagna pulled off the herculean feat of learning the complex score within days.

05 March 2016

Air France jet in near-miss with drone An Air France Airbus A320 narrowly avoided colliding with a drone as it was about to land in Paris on a flight from Barcelona.

04 March 2016

Italy global wine market king, US top tippler: study Italy was the biggest exporter and producer of wine in the world in 2015, while the United States consumed the most of Italian wine.

03 March 2016

EU's Tusk defends use of barbed wire against migrants EU president Donald Tusk defended the use of barbed-wire fences against migrants.

02 March 2016

Hollande acknowledges impact of nuclear testing in Pacific French President Francois Hollande acknowledged that three decades of nuclear tests in French Polynesia had had "an impact" on health.

23 February 2016

'Brexit' would 'threaten jobs', warn UK business leaders The bosses of more than a third of Britain's top companies urged voters to keep the country in the European Union.

23 February 2016

'Bad bank' deal could be option for several countries: EU banking resolution chief A state-backed "bad bank" that would take over non-performing loans from a country's banks could also be an option for other countries.

17 February 2016

Chaotic mix of actors and interests in Syria war Syria's brutal five-year war has turned increasingly messy tangle of internal and external players with their own multi-faceted agendas.

17 February 2016

Pakistan court to hear bid to reclaim jewel from British crown Pakistan asks Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond more than 150 years after it was taken from Lahore.

10 February 2016

Opera Software welcomes Chinese consortium's $1.2 billion bid Chinese consortium led by the Golden Brick Silk Road investment fund offered 10.5 billion kroner ($1.2 billion) to take over Opera Software

10 February 2016

13 million pupils in OECD nations 'failing at 15' 13 million pupils in OECD countries fail to attain a sufficient level of proficiency in either reading, maths or science by the age of 15.

10 February 2016

Scottish islanders don helmets for Viking fire festival Residents of Scotland's remote Shetland Islands brandishing swords and shields celebrated their Nordic roots in a fest that culminated in burning of a Viking ship replica.

27 January 2016

EU seals bad loans accord with Italy Italy and the European Union on Tuesday reached agreement on creating a guarantee vehicle to help Italian banks sell bad loans.

27 January 2016

Emir Baigazin's The Wounded Angel selected for Berlinale The Wounded Angel by Kazakh film director Emir Baigazin selected for the Official Program of the Berlin International Film Festival.

20 January 2016

Kazakhstan condemns North Korea's nuclear test Kazakhstan denounced North Korea’s test of hydrogen bomb and violation of UN Security Council’s nonproliferation resolutions.

06 January 2016

Does North Korea have 'H' or 'A' bomb? North Korea said it had successfully tested a miniature hydrogen bomb. If confirmed, this would place it among a small group of countries with such dangerous weapons.

06 January 2016

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