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Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and lowered its full-year forecast on Tuesday, citing investments in staffing and weaker margins in its U.S. pharmacy business. Shares of the world's largest retailer fell 3.1 percent to $69.70 in heavy...

Brazil's Petrobras may need to pay record penalties of $1.6 billion or more to settle U.S. criminal and civil probes into its role in a corruption scandal, a person recently briefed by the company's legal advisors told Reuters. State-run Petroleo...

A 6 percent fall in Chinese shares on Tuesday hit Asian stocks and left European equities struggling for gains while emerging market currencies and oil prices touched multi-year lows. A broad measure of Asian stocks fell to its lowest in...

Thai police said Tuesday investigators believe a man seen in security video wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack set off the explosion at a central Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people and injured more than 100. "The yellow...

Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu's has been admitted to a South African hospital, for the third time in recent months. Tutu was hospitalized Monday evening, his daughter Mpho Tutu said in a press briefing in Cape Town on Tuesday. He is...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 18, (THEWILL) – The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, alleged on Monday that it has just uncovered another desperate arrangement by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to put a cog in the...

Prosecutors in South Africa have filed papers calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder, days before he is due to be released on probation. Pistorius has spent 10 months in jail for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp,...

The ongoing ministerial briefing of the President at the State House, Abuja, put a spotlight on an important sector long neglected by previous administrations, yet one that can create millions of jobs.   The first briefing of a President by the...

Hate them or love them, commercial bus drivers and conductors often looked down on with so much derision by many are fast gaining a respected reputation of some sort in Nigeria today. The latest 'honourable' status being conferred on the...

The ongoing efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid our country of the destructive menace of corruption will remain a mirage until corruption mascots like the former governor of Akwa Ibom State and Senate Minority Leader, Sen....