Kiev’s weak grip on east falters

Kiev’s weak grip on east falters
‘Little green men’ mask their identity
Yellen warns inflation may lag recovery
A textbook case of culture wars in Texas
Overheated property leaves China in a fix
France set to freeze welfare payments
Up to 300 missing as S Korea ferry sinks
Uncertain future for India’s middle class
China GDP growth slows in first quarter
Former Kazakh banker to lose UK asylum

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 11:17 AM PDT

Rather than Ukraine being close to "civil war", according to Vladimir Putin, in Slavyansk the scene resembles a sort of bloodless, passive coup

‘Little green men’ mask their identity

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Who are the mysterious, camouflaged pro-Russian gunmen who have been seizing local government buildings, police stations and town halls?

Yellen warns inflation may lag recovery

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 12:05 PM PDT

The Fed chairwoman's remarks, in one of her first big policy speeches, raise the possibility of easy monetary policy for longer than currently expected

A textbook case of culture wars in Texas

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 06:40 AM PDT

Hispanics are now a majority in Texas state schools, prompting soul searching about how children should be taught about American society

Overheated property leaves China in a fix

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 10:29 AM PDT

The Chinese economy is approaching a dependence on property last seen in Ireland and Spain before the bursting of their real state bubbles

France set to freeze welfare payments

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:14 AM PDT

Temporary freeze forms part of government's commitment to cut public spending by €50bn over the next three years

Up to 300 missing as S Korea ferry sinks

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:13 AM PDT

Fears grow that number of fatalities will rise as search continues on sunken ferry that had been sailing to southern island of Jeju

Uncertain future for India’s middle class

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 07:01 AM PDT

Without the scale of manufacturing jobs found in China, Indians emerging from rural poverty remain vulnerable to economic and political changes

China GDP growth slows in first quarter

Posted: 15 Apr 2014 11:53 PM PDT

Slowing growth is raising pressure on Beijing to provide fresh stimulus to head off a potential collapse in growth in the world's second-largest economy

Former Kazakh banker to lose UK asylum

Posted: 16 Apr 2014 02:22 AM PDT

UK move to revoke asylum status granted to Mukhtar Ablyazov, a political opponent of Kazakh president, follows lobbying from central Asian state