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France’s top football league sold domestic television rights for 2016-20 for a record sum of nearly one billion dollars a year, officials said Friday. The new deal saw Ligue 1 sold for 726 million euros ($994 million) a year and the second division…

The United States added a modest 192,000 jobs in March as the economy emerged from a brutal winter, while the unemployment rate held steady, Labor Department data showed Friday. Job growth in the world’s largest economy was a shade below analysts’ average…

Swiss cement group Holcim announced on Friday that it is in merger talks with building supplies giant Lafarge. Shares in the Swiss company surged by over 4 percent and Lafarge stock climbed by 6 percent late on Friday on rumours ahead of the announcement…

Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders scrambled on Friday to find new sources of energy after Russia hiked its gas price by 80 percent in response to the overthrow of Kiev’s pro-Kremlin regime. The crisis-hit nation saw the amount it must pay for 1,000 cubic…

Attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni Arab areas of northern and western Iraq killed nine people on Friday, the latest in a surge of bloodshed ahead of a general election. The shootings and bombings, which also wounded dozens more, came with campaigning…

Thousands of K-Pop fans flocked to a major concert by top South Korean music stars in Japan this week, with organisers and fans alike calling it a “bridge” for two nations locked in a never-ending diplomatic squabble. The K-Pop juggernaut has been spreading…

US fast food giant McDonald’s said on Friday it was temporarily shutting its three stores in Crimea following the Ukrainian peninsula’s annexation by Russia. McDonald’s said in a statement posted on its Ukrainian website that the decision was taken “…

Europe’s main stock markets pushed higher on Friday as jobs data showed the recovery in the US economy is back in form after catching a winter cold. London’s FTSE 100 index climbed 0.56 percent compared with Thursday’s closing value to stand at 6,686…

Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Friday on the central bank to cut interest rates in order to stimulate the economy as political instability saps momentum. “The central bank should hold an extraordinary meeting to cut (rates) … just as…

British businessman Shrien Dewani will arrive in Cape Town next week to stand trial on charges that he arranged the murder of his 28-year-old Swedish bride, it was announced on Friday. “After a successful extradition process, Mr Dewani is expected to…

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants riding in a convoy of vehicles attacked an army post in Hadramawt province in southeast Yemen on Friday, killing eight soldiers and wounding 11, a military source said. “The attackers approached the position on board several…

An Indian judge on Friday ordered three men to hang after they were convicted of two gang-rapes, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year. The sentences were announced at a court in Mumbai…

Michael Schumacher has “moments of consciousness and awakening”, his spokeswoman said Friday, in a sign of progress months after the Formula One legend suffered devastating brain injuries in a ski accident. Doctors put Schumacher in a medically induced…

3 April 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he is encouraged by the technical and security preparations and broad…

2 April 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the commitment by small islands in the Pacific to…

2 April 2014 – A senior United Nations official today urged Afghans to use this Saturday’s presidential and provincial council…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations humanitarian wing is warning that life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable…

3 April 2014 – Now in its fourth year, the Syrian conflict hit yet another bleak milestone today, as the…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations confirmed today that Palestinian Authority officials have presented letters for accession to 15…

31 March 2014 – A group of eight United Nations human rights independent experts today urged the Egyptian authorities to…