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Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday as investors brushed aside a 30-month high in oil prices, turning their attention instead to a key U.S. jobs report and a weakening yen that boosted Japan's quake-hammered exporters. Tokyo's…

Of women giving birth each year, 48 million - or one in three - do so without expert help, a report from UK charity Save the Children estimates. If the global shortage of 350,000 midwives was met, more than 1m babies could be saved every…

The Republic of Ireland's banks need an extra 24bn euros (£21.2bn) to survive the financial crisis. The figure follows a stress test on the Irish banking system by a group of independent experts and the country's central bank. Four…

Microsoft Corp. on Thursday threw its weight behind an existing probe by European Union authorities into whether rival Google Inc. is unfairly thwarting competition in the online search market. Microsoft's General Counsel Brad Smith said…

Bank of Japan will re-release the results of Tankan survey on 4 April, the bank said. The initial results released on Friday, showed that manufacturers were optimistic about economic growth in the first three months of the year.…

The U.S. housing market may be struggling to regain its footing, but the $100 million sale of a single-family home in the heart of Silicon Valley shows that luxury properties are still in demand. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a big…

Businesses likely posted a second straight month of solid job gains in March, as slow but steady economic growth translated into more hiring. Economists expect the nation added 185,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate stayed at…

Sheila Leeson, the granddaughter of Ghanaian-born Arthur Wharton has been honoured by the English Football Association (FA). The granddaughter of the first Ghanaian footballer to play in the English Premiership was given the honour…

Ghana and other countries in sub-Sahara Africa are said to have the potential of raising between $5 billion to $10 billion from bonds in the diaspora. Lead economist at the World Bank Dilip Ratha says countries in the sub-region including…

New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs claim their region is being marginalised with regards to a credit facility to finance oil field projects in the country. There is yet to be presented before Parliament for approval a credit agreement between…