AT the break of dawn each day, dozens of women forced to flee their homes during Nepal's decade-long civil war load their bicycles with vegetables and head to market.

JAPAN'S crisis-racked Toshiba Corp has offered shares in its memory chip unit to creditors as collateral to secure debt refinancing, people briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

Britain's unemployment rate has struck the lowest level for more than 41 years, official data showed on Wednesday as the country prepares to trigger its exit from the EU. However a drop in the jobless rate comes alongside news of slowing wages growth.

Oil prices climbed more than $1 on Wednesday, lifted by a surprise drawdown in US inventories and data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggesting Opec cuts should create a crude deficit in the first half of 2017.

Some of Japan's top companies announced their lowest wage hikes in years on Wednesday, marking the latest challenge for Tokyo's bid to boost spending and the economy.

President Donald Trump on Thursday will offer the first details of his plans for deep cuts in domestic programs and foreign aid, releasing a budget outline that would boost military spending by $54 billion and seek cuts of the same size in non-defense programs.

Spain's fashion retail giant Inditex, owner of popular brand Zara, said Wednesday that its drive to expand internationally helped push up profits last year.

Some of Japan's top companies announced their lowest wage hikes in years on Wednesday, marking the latest challenge for Tokyo's bid

Brazil's inflation rate slowed unexpectedly sharply last month, falling to its lowest for February since 2000, official figures showed Friday.

China on Saturday tried to downplay concerns it is reducing market access for foreign enterprises, days after a report by an EU group accused Beijing of trying to skew its business playing field towards domestic firms.

Britain's industrial output recoiled in January as the nation prepared to exit the European Union, official data showed Friday.

The economy of bailed-out eurozone member Cyprus grew for an eighth consecutive quarter, helped by record numbers of tourists flocking to the Mediterranean island, official figures showed Friday.

BRITAIN'S exit from the European Union will trim 0.2-0.4 percentage points off Spain's gross domestic product growth, according to a government report published Friday by daily newspaper El Pais.

The US economy had another strong month of job creation in February, the Labor Department reported Friday -- a result sure to boost already high expectations that the Fed will raise interest rates next week.

Germany's trade surplus ticked upwards in January, official data showed Friday, as attacks from the Trump White House over the nation's export strength intensify.

Volkswagen AG pleaded guilty on Friday to fraud, obstruction of justice and falsifying statements as part of a $4.3 billion settlement reached with the US Justice Department in January over the automaker's diesel emissions scandal.

The heavy rain on Thursday came as a boost for the tea gardens in Sylhet as the shower could help the owners avoid the fall in output caused normally by drought at this time of the year.

The Paris region has passed a new rule obliging labourers on public building sites to use French, copying action taken elsewhere in France to squeeze out foreign workers.

Canada's jobless rate fell slightly to 6.6 percent in February as 15,000 net new jobs were added and fewer people searched for work, the government statistical agency said Friday.

Home appliances brand Singer has introduced energy efficient and environment friendly refrigerators with R600a gas.