US tech rout, earnings drag down European shares

France's third-biggest listed bank, reported a 29.6 per cent rise in quarterly net income on Wednesday as cost cuts took effect and as the health of its Italian consumer-loan unit improved. Credit Agricole, which is returning to its roots as a France-focused ...

France's Lafarge said it was selling its cement business in Pakistan for an enterprise value of $329 million to Karachi-listed BestWay Cement. The disposal of the 76 percent stake in Lafarge Pakistan Cement Ltd will "contribute to Lafarge's net debt ...

KUALA LUMPUR : Ascom Wireless Solutions, a Swiss Exchange-listed global solutions provider, has acquired Scanditronic, a Malaysian distributor, for one million Swiss francs ( RM3.56 million ), to enhance its presence in Southeast Asia . ...

Agence France-Presse MH17 wreckage Kharkiv: A small group of Dutch and Australian investigators walked the sprawling, unsecured site where Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 went down as their governments prepared police detachments they hope can ...

PARIS —Never in my life did I think that on the streets of Paris I would hear cries of "Juif, la France n'est pas à toi" (Jew, France is not yours). But that's what happened in an anti-government march on January 26 . Never in my life could I ...

French President Francois Hollande has confirmed that there were no survivors in the crash of an Air Algerie passenger plane in the West African state of Mali. French officials now say 118 people were on board the aircraft which disappeared en ...

[July 25, 2014] (Radio France Internationale Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Hacktivist group Anonymous may carry out more cyber attacks against the Kenyan government, one of its members has told RFI. "Someone asked for help and we ...

Agence France-Presse Mogadishu, 25 July: African Union troops in Somalia said today that they had killed two senior commanders of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, in the latest push of an offensive against the extremist fighters. ...

France has "from the start" ruled out that an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali was shot down from the ground, transport minister Frederic Cuvillier said on Friday. "We have excluded from the start the possibility of a strike from the ground," ...