India’s central bank plans to use insolvency laws against more corporate defaulters to speed up resolution of the country’s bad loans that have swelled to $180bn.

The threat of Thyssenkrupp shedding thousands of steel jobs in Germany’s most populous state is turning into a campaign issue less than two weeks before the biggest electoral test heading into the national vote in September.

In January, Al Rayyan Municipality conducted 740 regular food health inspection tours, in addition to three sudden inspections, where 104 violations reports were issued with 88 being reconciled after paying the fines.

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary V K Sasikala yesterday staked her claim to form the government in Tamil Nadu during her meeting with Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, the party said.

BRF SA and the Qatar Investment Authority formed a joint venture to buy Turkey’s biggest poultry producer for $470mn in a bid to expand in halal food markets, sending shares of Banvit Bandirma Vitaminli Yem Sanayii to a 12-year high.

An alleged Islamic State jihadist accused of scoping out potential targets for an attack in Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag building, went on trial in Germany on Wednesday.

The scoreline in San Antonio read 113-100 on Sunday, but the number that really mattered to the Spurs was 21.

Qatar Charity has announced the signing of a co-operation agreement with the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), under the framework of its Save a Dream initiative, to help strengthen and enhance the role of sport in empowering young people and encouraging social development and cohesion

Pop superstar Janet Jackson has confirmed that she is pregnant with her first child at age 50 -- and has the baby bump to prove it.

Protesters at South Africa's Wits University attacked police vehicles with rocks and overturned another on Tuesday, as violence in nationwide demonstrations over high tuition fees escalated.

A Vietnamese trainee pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed into a rice field, an official said yesterday, the third deadly military plane accident since June.

A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman could be among a group of people kidnapped from a restaurant in the Pacific Mexican tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta, the state attorney general said on Tuesday.