Japan

Honda SUVs sent back to carmaker's factories over fears that vehicle doors may not close properly.

An IBTimes UK exclusive round-up of the most recent policy statements and rate decisions from the world's key central banks

Yahoo's second quarter profits dropped by 4.4 percent year-on-year thanks to staff layoffs and other cost-cutting measures.

Japan's deputy banking minister Ikko Nakatsuka urges country's biggest brokerage to 'clean its wounds' following investigation into trader tip-offs.

Former Liverpool and Manchester City goal keeper David James has hailed England's Joe Hart as the best keeper in the world

The next iPhone is to feature a thinner screen technology which is already in mass production, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Roads and water supply in most parts of the region remain cut off by the unprecedented downpour.

Aerial footage shows streets and houses flooded with mud and water.

The global business environment these days has been woven in a more complicated interdependency that some volatility from China could jolt or immobilise the stock markets to as far as Sydney, New York and London.

Global PC sales have declined again, as Intel's Ultrabook platform has little impact and people spend their money on tablets and smartphones instead.

The four countries are tipped by ratings agency S&P to pick up the slack of slowing China GDP growth and others in the Asia-Pacific region, in the face of the faltering Eurozone economies.

Japan's biggest advertising firm makes play for British marketing group with French billionaire support

Ueno Zoo says unnamed male giant panda cub dead from pneumonia six days after being born.

Damian Green says staff working hard to push queue times below 45 minute targets as reports emerge of fed-up visitors slow-handclapping officers.

Arsene Wenger believes that China could pave the way for top quality football in the future, with the Arsenal manager looking forward to visiting the country as part of his side's pre-season trip.

Since the disaster, many countries have turned back on nuclear energy but countries like the UK and the US still vouch for it.

Anonymous retaliates against notorious grey-hat hacker "the Jester" for his activities exposing UGNazi global hacking group.

Bryan Robson believes that Manchester United signing Shinji Kagawa is showing great ability off the field as well as on it, with the Japan international preparing to join the squad in their pre-season tour.

Deutsche Bank reportedly suspends two dealers, US investor files class action

After extended flights in space, a microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C elegans) undergoes genetic changes that help it to live longer.

International donors urge effective implementation of developmental projects with the aid as they worry financial mismanagement and corruption could undermine the purpose of the aid.

The status which comes into immediate effect will provide Kabul with special access to US arms.

Shin Shin the panda surprises zoologists by giving birth to cub at Ueno Zoo in Japan.

Natural climatic changes such as El Nino have stalled the growth of coral reefs for nearly 2,500 years.

China is aggressively pushing forward with its currency liberalisation plans, after slashing its interest rate in the first time in less than a month

Australia and New Zealand join WWF and Greenpeace against plans, which they declare are 'commercial whaling in drag'.

Although triggered by tsunami, the Fukushima disaster 'could and should have been foreseen and prevented', according to independent parliamentary investigation.

The hugely controversial ACTA treaty has been rejected by the European Parliament in a landslide vote.

Juan Mata and David de Gea have both been included in Spain's preliminary Olympic Games squad for the London 2012 football competition.

Corporate barrister Owen Watkins tells IBTimes UK that Barclays' newly resigned CEO Bob Diamond and individuals involved in rate-fixing scandal may avoid UK criminal proceedings.