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Pope Francis told members of the world's wealthy political and economic elite on Wednesday that they should not be deaf to the cry of the poor and must consider their own role in creating inequality. New technologies such as robotics...

Alexandre Pato has reached a verbal agreement with Chelsea, according to reports in Brazil. It is understood he has a number of representatives and they have been desperate, for a succession of transfer windows, to get the former AC Milan...

Austria declared on Wednesday it would cap the number of people allowed to claim asylum this year at less than half last year's total, and its chancellor said border controls would have to be stepped up "massively"; but how...

A suicide car bomber targeted a van carrying journalists working for a private Afghan television channel on Wednesday, killing seven people during evening rush hour close to the national parliament in Kabul, officials said.It was the latest in a...

Royal Dutch Shell has reported a sharp drop in profits just a week before shareholders vote on its planned takeover of smaller rival BG Group. For the fourth quarter it expects profits of $1.6bn to $1.9bn, less than half the...

Computing giant Microsoft has pledged to provide $1bn-worth (£700m) of cloud computing resources to organisations it deems to be working for the "public good". The resources will be shared out over the next three years to about 70,000 non-profits and...

Confectionery giant Nestle will appeal against a High Court decision that denies it the right to trademark its four-fingered KitKat in the UK. It is the latest ruling in a long running battle with Cadbury. Nestle wants to stop rivals producing...

The UK unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest rate in more than a decade but wage growth has slowed. The rate hit 5.1% in the three months to November - its lowest rate since the three months to October...

The Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, has signed a $5m (£3.5m) deal for an Ebola vaccine, to protect against future outbreaks of the deadly disease. The deal commits pharmaceutical company Merck to keeping 300,000 vaccines ready for emergency use or further clinical...

SAN FRANCISCO, January 20, (THEWILL) – Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and operator of Radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, was on Wednesday ordered by a Federal High Court in Abuja to be remanded in prison custody. Since...