With oil production at its lowest in years, a total halt in phosphate exports and power generation sharply reduced, Syria's economy is on its knees, government ministers have said. 

Spain's economy minister on Tuesday raised the government's growth forecast for 2017 to "around three percent" from 2.7 percent due to a stronger-than-expected performance at the start of the year.

"We started this year at cruising speed, which indicates growth will be around three percent," Luis de Guindos told lawmakers during a debate on this year's budget.

Most Asian markets fell in holiday-thinned trade on Tuesday, with dealers keeping tabs on a developing scandal around Donald Trump's administration.

Passengers faced a third day of disruption at Heathrow on Monday as British Airways canceled short-haul flights after a global computer crash that unions blamed on the outsourcing of IT services to India.

As a trained nurse, Jose Antonio Torres can help save lives -- but in Cuba's labor market, he finds riding a bicycle rickshaw a surer way to feed his four children.

India must reverse a trend of falling women's participation in the job market if it is to achieve its ambition of double-digit growth, the World Bank said on Monday.

Although Britain's economic growth is ticking along in the run-up to the general election, flat wages and the government's austerity program continue to bite and cause anger among those left behind.

A world away from the glistening skyscrapers of London's City finance district, normal life for some resembles that depicted in last year's Cannes winner "I, Daniel Blake".

The holy Muslim month of Ramadan began Saturday with a bitter taste for residents of Libya's capital, as a cash shortage bites, prices rise and deadly clashes returned to Tripoli.

Dawn queues outside banks just to withdraw a few tens of dinars has become routine for most Libyans, whose chaos-plagued North African country faces a persistent liquidity shortfall.

U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a salvo against German car exports to the United States, officials confirmed Friday, in the latest sign of simmering transatlantic trade tensions.

Eurozone stock markets sank Friday but London rose on a weak pound after news of a surprise opinion poll two weeks before Britain's general election.