Author : EW News Desk Team

Libya’s prime minister Ali Zeidan has promised to act “in a timely manner” to break up protests at several large export terminals and oil fields across the country, after...

The widespread consumption of tobacco in India is expected to cause the deaths of around 1.5 million Indians a year by 2020, according to a new report by the...

There are now 315 billionaires in China, according to the Hurun Report’s 2013 Rich List, with the top five seeing their net-worth double on average over the last year,...

Some 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year, said a United Nations report published on Wednesday, bringing about major economic losses to food producers and causing significant...

Greece could require two more bailouts to keep its economy afloat, warned European Central Bank Governing Council member Luc Coene on Wednesday, though he remained confident that the worst...

Ministers from Japan and India have called on energy exporters to reduce the price of liquefied natural gas (LNG), complaining that Asian states had been paying a higher ‘premium’...

 A prominent Saudi businessman is reportedly seeking $10 billion in damages from U.K. financial group Barclays after he claimed that the bank had conducted “corrupt activities” in Saudi Arabia,...

Suicides in Greece spiked dramatically during the first four years of the financial crisis, said a mental health aid group on Tuesday, warning that there were indications of a...

Ukraine will be barred from joining a customs union of former Soviet states if it signs a free-trade pact with the European Union this November, warned Russian Prime Minister...

Nearly 10,000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest land is now under the “protection” of the Brazilian government, announced officials on Monday, claiming that they would allow only for sustainable...