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World share markets made a soft start to 2014 on Thursday in the wake of disappointing data on Chinese manufacturing, while investors showed renewed appetite for commodities and the dollar as the new year got underway. Gold grabbed the limelight...

Fiat shares jumped on Thursday after it struck a $4.35 billion deal to gain full control of Chrysler Group LLC, but doubts remained over whether the Italian carmaker can use the merger to cut losses in Europe. Investors welcomed the...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, has recalled donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests showed the product contained the DNA of other animals, the U.S. company said. Wal-Mart will reimburse customers who bought the tainted...

Asia's manufacturing sector ended 2013 on a strong note, with expansion hitting multi-year highs in export-driven Japan and Taiwan, but signs of moderation in China raises concerns about the outlook for the new year. Both official and private measures of...

The man who led South Korea's auto industry on a tear through the last decade said Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS) expect what will be their lowest annual sales growth since 2003 as the weak...

Few days before last year's yuletide, a major political statement with far-reaching constitutional import was made by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission Professor Attahiru Jega to the effect that if the violent and bloody insurgency in...

Chelsea made a £49.4million loss in the last financial year, the English Premier League club announced on Wednesday. Turnover for the year ending June 30, 2013 was a record £255.8m, but the club's early Champions League exit contributed to the...

The 2013 calendar finally stopped counting but is not one Ugandan football can be proud of. We have had some measurably decent tales in some corners, highly hilarious in others, and downright unfathomable in cases where leaders have demonstrated incomprehensible...

Former Nigerian assistant coach, Fatai Amoo has described the Super Eagles Africa Cup of Nations title-winning feat as the most outstanding moment in football in the year 2013. The Eagles edged West African foes, the Stallions of Burkina Faso to...

From Sydney to London to San Francisco, revelers welcomed 2014 with extravagant fireworks displays, giant street parties and, in a new departure, fruit-flavored mist. In New York, hordes of people, many decked out in cartoonish hats, waving balloons or ringing...