Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery rose $1.35 to $53.55 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for April delivery rose $1.31 to $56.35 a barrel.
Microsoft says that the project is in line with its commitment to sustainability, and the facility has implemented energy and water conservation practices to reduce its carbon footprint. This is its third data centre in India.
Madhavsinh Solanki, a veteran Congress leader who had also been External Affairs Minister, died in Gandhinagar early Saturday morning. He was 93.
South Africa will vaccinate 40 million people, or twothirds of its population, against COVID19 in order to achieve herd immunity, its health minister said on Thursday, as a mutant variant drove daily new cases above 21,000 for the first time.
The lowcost carrier FlyDubai began regular flights to Tel Aviv on Thursday, the latest sign of the normalization deal taking hold between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
Tributes poured in from both sides of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and from around the world after the death of Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator who died in Jerusalem on Tuesday after contracting COVID19.
The country's authorities have registered a mutation of the new coronavirus in mink, which has spread to humans, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a press conference.
Georgians voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election tightly contested between a ruling party whose popularity is waning amid economic problems and an alliance of opposition parties who have accused government supporters of ballot rigging.
On the steps of a Bucharest court on Friday, Adrian Albu pointed to his sister among the pictures of the 65 people who died in a nightclub fire five years ago, triggering mass protests across Romania at a culture of graft and lack of accountability.
In a recent episode of Naagin 5, actors Surbhi Jyoti and Mohit Sehgal, who are playing Naagin and Naag, remember their past and share a kiss with forked tongues.
First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Souls dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that commanded respect. When the former playwright suited up as Black Panther, he bro...
At the end of a five-hour long meeting of the GST Council, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said there was no proposal to raise tax rates to make up for the shortfall that has been compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The government will provide its latest snapshot Thursday of the pace of layoffs in the United States, which have declined steadily but remain stuck at a high level with the economy still in the grip of the viral pandemic that erupted in March.
China said on Tuesday it has begun an antidumping probe into imports of Australian wine in a move that will likely worsen tensions between the two countries and knocked a fifth off the share price of Australia's biggest winemaker.
Singapore's finance minister on Monday unveiled more economic support measures worth about S$8 billion ($5.8 billion) to cushion the blow from the COVID19 pandemic on businesses and workers.