Zurich: Banned European soccer boss Michel Platini has withdrawn his candidacy from the race for the presidency of soccer's scandal-plagued governing...
London: Emerging-market stocks trimmed the worst weekly drop since 2012 and currencies rose after China suspended a controversial circuit-breaker system...
Sydney: A bushfire destroyed nearly 100 homes in Western Australia as it swept through countryside south of Perth, but there were no casualties reported...
London: By any measure, Saudi Arabian Oil Company is in a league of its own.
Take its oil reserves — roughly 260 billion barrels, nearly 10 times those of...
Seoul: Samsung’s profit miss is the latest sign the global smartphone market is running out of steam, spelling trouble for the suppliers of displays,...
Jakarta: Indonesia plans to sell dollar Islamic bonds, kickstarting 2016’s sovereign issuance after the poorest showing for global annual offerings in...
Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey has taken a lot of flak for tweetingon Wednesday that the company might abandon its 140-character-per-post limit. Many see...
It was a chance encounter. The ribbon had been cut, I had studied the exhibition in advance, and was standing just inside the door as the crowd flowed into...
One evening last week, I was sitting in a café at the Wave Muscat and watched people. I had my eyes on a red Ferrari that cruised past. But I was not the...
MUSCAT: Twenty-three people who completed the fourth level of an English language training course, were honoured by the Omani Journalists Association (OJA)....