World ​food prices rose in August to their highest since late 2022, as adverse weather and ‌war disruption in the Black Sea heightened concern over supply of staples, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.

Earlier, in January-February this year, Bangladesh overtook China for the first time in garment shipments to the USA

Regulations would be revised to make them "airtight" and prioritise public safety

Brent crude futures settled at $92.68 a barrel, up 76 cents, or 0.8 percent

Employment in the United States grew by 162,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1 percent

A US federal judge on Wednesday refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government’s push to break up part of the company’s ad empire.

Uber and British start-up Wayve launched their commercial robotaxi service in London on Thursday, although passengers will still have a human supervisor behind the wheel.

Energy trade routes that optimize distance and costs may no longer be suitable for the fractured and fractious modern world, especially for major importers.

Mitsuru Izumo was 18 when he first came to Bangladesh in 1998. A biology student at the University of Tokyo, he chose this country for an internship because he wanted to see poverty and nutrition problems for himself.

"In view of increasing geopolitical unrest, DNB is strengthening its crisis preparedness," the bank said

Brent crude futures fell 59 cents, or 0.62%, to $95.04 a barrel

The FAA said the full amount sought in September 2025 was paid by Boeing in January and had not been previously disclosed publicly. Boeing also confirmed to Reuters it paid the fine.

President Donald Trump’s plan to secure direct US access to a large share of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves could end up derailing the country’s long-awaited petroleum revival by stifling competition, distorting markets and deterring the foreign investment needed to rebuild the South American nation’s battered energy industry.

The government plans to cut the minimum local ownership requirement for mobile operators to 10 percent from 15 percent, according to the latest draft of the Telecommunications Network and Licensing Policy.

Eurozone inflation jumped to 3.3 percent in August, the highest level in three years, as the war in the Middle East kept pushing up energy costs, official data showed Tuesday.

Revenue from Taiwan’s semiconductor chip sector is expected to soar 40 percent this year, a top industry official said Wednesday, driven by skyrocketing demand for artificial intelligence technology.

A G20 chair's statement to conclude the meeting said the participants, except China's, agreed that countries should eliminate "non-market policies" that exacerbate imbalances

Sri Lanka’s inflation hit a 38-month high of 8.0 percent as prices of food and other essentials rose across the board, the government’s statistics office said on Monday.

China’s installed solar energy capacity has surpassed that of coal-fired power for the first time, the national energy body said Tuesday, hailing the milestone.

India’s economy grew at a faster pace than expected in the April to June quarter, official data showed on Monday, quelling fears that the Iran war would derail growth in Asia’s third-largest economy.