Dubai-based private equity firm TVM Capital Healthcare hopes to close a $250 million (Dh918.1 million) global fund next year after the collapse of Abraaj, one of the Middle East’s biggest buyout firms, hurt investor confidence in the region. Fund-raising, which started last December, has been delayed by about a year and the fund will target […]

Tokyo: Global stock markets headed into the year-end under a heavy cloud after another rout this week as US political uncertainty added to heightened concerns over slowing global economic growth. Asian equities were shaky on Wednesday following a Christmas eve Wall Street plunge, as investors were unnerved by US political developments including a US federal […]

World number two Rafael Nadal loses to Kevin Anderson at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship

San Francisco: Friday begins a new age for Tesla Inc’s board and Elon Musk’s Twitter feed. It’s the deadline the Securities and Exchange Commission set for the electric-car maker to add two new independent directors, plus take a series of steps to better check its volatile chief executive officer’s presence on social media. Those measures […]

There was no immediate word on the nationalities of the tourists onboard.

Yangon: Facebook has removed hundreds of pages and accounts in Myanmar with hidden links to the military, the platform said on Wednesday, as the company scrambles to respond to criticism over failures to control hate speech and misinformation. The social media giant – Myanmar’s most popular and influential site – has been lambasted for years […]

India will become the fourth nation after Russia, the United States and China to send a manned mission into space.

He called more than 20 times an hour on a daily basis.

The 15 miners are trapped inside an illegal coal mine for 16 days now.