China

Carrefour to go for IPO in Hong Kong or take merger route.

Bankers to assess how quantitative easing cutbacks and China's slowing growth will impact economies.

Financial Stability Board sets up taskforce after Barclays, RBS and UBS settle with regulators.

London Gatwick Airport has also started 'detailed work' on prospect of second runway.

European markets open higher despite depressed mood in Asia.

Seconds before the accident the woman realised what was coming, but it was too late for her to react.

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and China's Xi Jinping discuss BRICS cooperation.

Led by the decline in the Shanghai Composite, markets tumble on Chinese liquidity concerns.

White House angered by Hong Kong government claims that Edward Snowden extradition request was incomplete.

WikiLeaks founder claims Snowden safe and well after giving pursuers the slip in Moscow.

Ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid midfielder David Beckham and his wife, Victoria Beckham, are on a tour of China for football and fashion

Australian mining giant's plan hit by volatile commodity prices and swelling debt costs.

Markets under spell of possible Fed rollback of stimulus programme and China liquidity crunch.

Washington outraged over links of countries to exit of NSA whistleblower.

Daniel Stewart & Co's chief economist Alastair Winter previews the week ahead for markets, politics and economics

Markets fall to nine-month lows with Shanghai declining the most.

Edward Snowden, who has sought political asylum with Ecuador, is currently at Moscow airport.

Two female cubs are the first pair to be born in the world this year.

More than 21,000 government officials descend on Tibet as part of 'political re-education' campaign.

Authorities confirm that the US whistleblower has left Hong Kong, where he was fighting extradition to the United States.

NSA 'launched' several attacks on Beijing's Tsinghua University and Hong Kong's Pacnet.

No militant outfit claims responsibility for attack in favourite tourist spot in Gilgit-Baltistan region on China-Pakistan border.

Alfred Saunders faces 25 years in jail after pleading guilty to the frenzied 2011 murder in Costa Rica.

The child, Qiqi, is believed to have wandered out of a window, disoriented after waking up.

Private jet is ready and waiting in China if Icelandic government gives NSA whistleblower asylum, says businessman.

Possible QE rollback by US and indications of Chinese slowdown batter markets.

Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft will supply 365m tonnes of oil to China over 25 years.

EU finance ministers are in Luxembourg to discuss how and when Europe's bailout fund can rescue troubled banks.

People's Bank of China asks state-owned banks to restart fund supplies to ease liquidity crunch.

Around 1,000 fans storm Tongji University stadium to catch glimpse of football icon.