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Bidhya Devi Bhandari Becomes Nepal’s First Female President
Women's rights campaigner Bidhya Devi Bhandari has become Nepal’s first female president. Nepal’s parliament has elected Bidhya Devi Bhandari in a move hailed as a...
Republican Debate: Donald Trump and Ben Carson under Attack
Republican frontrunners Donald Trump and Ben Carson, with no political experience, were under attack from the start of the third GOP presidential debate in...
Ben Carson Overtakes Donald Trump in New Poll
Ben Carson has knocked Donald Trump off top spot in the Republican presidential campaign. The retired neurosurgeon takes a narrow lead in a New York...
VW Reports $4 Billion Operating Loss Amid Emissions Scandal
VW has reported a €3.48 billion operating loss for Q3 of 2015, and a €2.52 billion pre-tax loss triggered by its emissions scandal. The German...
Walgreens Buys Rite Aid for $17.2 Billion
Walgreens Boots Alliance has agreed to buy its rival Rite Aid in a $17.2 billion all-cash deal. If approved by regulators, the deal would see...
Ivory Coast Elections 2015: Alassane Ouattara Wins Second Term with 84% of Vote
Alassane Ouattara has won a second five-year term as Ivory Coast’s president with nearly 84% of the vote, electoral commission officials say. He won a...
Halloween Costumes: Walmart Sparks Controversy with Israeli Soldier Outfit for Kids
Walmart has sparked outrage among customers by stocking an Israeli army Halloween outfit for kids. The costume is available on the store's website for $28.81...
IndiGo to Conduct IPO
India’s largest airline, IndiGo, plans to conduct an initial share offering this week as it seeks to raise as much as 32.68 billion rupees...
Donald Trump Reveals He Started out with a “Small Loan” of $1M from His Father
Donald Trump has revealed he got his start in business with a "small loan" of $1 million from his father. Speaking at a town hall...
Toyota Overtakes VW in Global Car Sales After Dieselgate Scandal
Toyota has overtaken VW in global vehicle sales after releasing figures for the first nine months of 2015. The Japanese automaker sold 7.5 million in...
Jimmy Morales Wins Guatemala’s Presidential Election
Jimmy Morales has been elected as Guatemala’s president after winning the runoff vote in the country's presidential election. The former comedian has no experience in...
Poland Elections 2015: Law and Justice Party Secures Decisive Win
Poland's Law and Justice party has secured a decisive win in the country’s parliamentary elections. According to exit polls, the conservative opposition party has enough...
Argentina Elections 2015: Daniel Scioli Leads Vote but May Face Runoff
Daniel Scioli is leading exit polls in Argentina's election, but it is not clear if the vote will go into a runoff. The center-left candidate...
Ivory Coast Elections 2015: President Alassane Ouattara Running for Second Term
Ivory Coast is holding the first presidential election since the civil war ended in 2011. The bitterly contested presidential election has been marred by prominent...
Tanzania Elections 2015: Ruling CCM Party Faces Challenge from Ukawa Coalition
Tanzanians are expected to polls in the country’s most tightly contested general elections, as a new opposition coalition tries to end the governing party's...
Congo-Brazzaville Referendum to Decide on Denis Sassou Nguesso Third Term
Voters in Congo-Brazzaville are expected to polls in a referendum on constitutional changes that would allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to stand for a...
Poland Elections 2015: Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party Tipped to Win
Poles are voting in the country’s parliamentary elections, with the conservatives hoping to return to power after eight years in opposition. Opinion polls in run-up...
Argentina Elections 2015: Voters to Pick Replacement for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Argentina is voting to choose the country’s next president in a general election that ends 12 years of rule under the Kirchners. President Cristina Fernandez...
Venezuela’s Central Bank Sues DolarToday over Cyberterrorism
Venezuela's Central Bank has filed a lawsuit at a court in Delaware against American website DolarToday. The bank accuses DolarToday of cyberterrorism and says its...
White House 2016: Lincoln Chafee Drops out of Democratic Presidential Race
Lincoln Chafee has announced he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race. The former Rhode Island Governor told the Democratic National Committee on October...
Porsche Market Manipulation Trial Begins in Germany
Porsche ex-CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and ex-finance chief Holger Haerter have gone on trial in Germany accused of market manipulation over a failed Volkswagen takeover...
VW Investigates More Diesel Engines in Emissions Scandal
VW has announced it is looking into more of its diesel engines to see whether they also contain software used to manipulate emissions test...
Joe Biden Will Not Run for 2016 Democratic Nomination
Joe Biden will not run for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 White House race. The 72-year-old vice-president said his family was ready after the...
Boeing’s Quarterly Profit Gets Boost from Higher Deliveries
Boeing, the world's largest maker of passenger jets, has reported a 25% rise in its quarterly profit, helped by an increase in deliveries of...
Paul Ryan Willing to Be House Speaker with Conditions
Paul Ryan has said he will run for House Speaker if Republicans in the chamber unite behind his candidacy. The Wisconsin Representative, who ran as...
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