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The number of Americans filing firsttime claims for jobless benefits increased further last week, suggesting that an explosion in new COVID19 infections and business restrictions were boosting layoffs and undermining the labor market recovery.

Gold has tumbled from record highs as investors, eyeing an end to the coronavirus pandemic, move money to riskier assets.

Israeli security forces fatally shot a Palestinian driver who tried to ram his car into them at a checkpoint on Jerusalem's outskirts on Wednesday after he raised suspicions by presenting apparently fake identification papers, police said.

The deceleration in bank credit growth was seen across all the population groups rural (11.2 per cent vs 14.8 per cent), semi-urban (9.4 per cent vs 12.3 per cent), urban (8.7 per cent vs 9.9 per cent) and metropolitan (3.6 per cent vs 7.2 per cent), the...

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that his government was considering limiting Christmas celebrations to six people in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan was captured walking towards a speed boat at the Gateway of India in Mumbai today. In the leaked pictures, Shah Rukh can be seen wearing comfortable clothing that almost helps him hide his identity.

The Centre has already borrowed Rs 24,000 crore on behalf of the states in four instalments and passed it on to 23 states and 3 Union Territories on October 23, November 2, November 9 and November 23.

The woman and the three boys, in the age group of 10 to 14 years, were booked under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, said deputy superintendent of police, BD Jadeja.

Gold edged higher on Wednesday after retreating in previous sessions, with a weaker dollar helping to offset a shift to equities and other riskier assets on hopes that coronavirus vaccines will spur economic recovery.

At least eight people were drowned after a boat carrying more than 35 migrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa and heading towards the Canary Islands capsized on Tuesday, emergency services said on Wednesday.

U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden will give a speech on Wednesday highlighting the challenges facing Americans as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches and the nation faces a surge in coronavirus infections and a wave of unpopular health restrictions.

The White House is considering rescinding entry bans for most nonU.S. citizens who recently were in Brazil, Britain, Ireland and 26 other European countries, five U.S. and airline officials told Reuters.

A Swiss woman who knifed a victim in the neck and grabbed another by the throat in a Lugano department store on Tuesday was a known jihadist who fell in love with a militant online and tried in vain to meet him in Syria, police said on Wednesday.

Addressing a webinar organised by realtors body NAREDCO, he said the government's Affordable Rental Housing Complex (ARHC) scheme for migrants, which was launched few months ago, has been progressing well and the programme has the potential to stop creati...

Houthi authorities in Yemen have given longawaited approval for a United Nations plan to visit and assess a deteriorating oil tanker off Yemen's coast that is threatening to spill 1.1 million barrels of crude oil into the Red Sea.

Mahindra Thar was tested in its basic safety specification, two airbags, and reached 4 stars for adult and child occupants. The Thar also meets the side impact UN 95 regulation.