February2018

Globally, in low-income countries, the average newborn mortality rate is 27 deaths per 1,000 births, the report says. In high-income countries, that rate is 3 deaths per 1,000. Newborns from the riskiest places to give birth...

Online sales were 23% higher in the three months to December. That was less than half the growth recorded in the previous quarter and lower than in the same period of 2016. Walmart shares have fallen...

Though well known on the British High Street, HSBC makes most of its money outside the UK, with Asia accounting for the bulk of global profits. HSBC has posted a pre-tax profit of $17.2bn (£12.3bn) in...

Tokyo stocks earlier stormed more than two percent higher on solid data and rebounding investor confidence, but many major bourses, including in China and Hong Kong, were shut for the Lunar New Year break. Europe’s major...

Turkey-led forces will begin besieging the Syrian town of Afrin in the coming days as part of Turkey’s operation to drive the Kurdish YPG militia out of the region in northwest Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said...

Burberry’s star designer Christopher Bailey bid goodbye to the British brand on Saturday with a colour-infused show, showcasing designs with a rainbow twist on the label’s famed check print on a catwalk lit with laser beams....

In 2015, with Germany facing turmoil after flinging its doors open to a million refugees, Berlin repurposed a defunct airport to house them, creating an ad hoc village that is the setting for a film to...

Britain’s Mulberry looked to the garden parties of old to inspire its most modern fashion collection to date, as the brand on Friday launched a new format allowing shoppers to buy its wares straight off the...

Kenya prevented two opposition activists from traveling abroad because it had not been formally sent a court order reinstating their passports, immigration authorities said on Tuesday. The government suspended the passports of senator James Orengo and...

South Korea and the United States will announce plans before April for a postponed joint military drill, South Korea’s defense minister said on Tuesday. Seoul and Washington had agreed to postpone the regular joint military exercise...