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Aggressive price wars that pushed some calls below a penny per minute in India may be catching up with wireless carriers. Mountains of debt could hinder their bidding for airwaves in next month's auction, potentially blowing a $74 billion (roughly Rs. 4,92,140 crores) hole in...

China is hosting the G20 summit, hoping to transform it "from a crisis-response system, to a long-term-governance body".   Members of the G20 summit account for two-thirds of the world's population, and 80 percent of the global economy. So it is fitting that members of the G20...

HUAWEI PREDICTS that by 2025 all enterprise IT solutions will be “cloudified”, and more than 85 per cent of enterprise applications will be cloud-based. Every company will integrate its core business with the cloud, and will be on the look-out for cloud solutions that best...

By Anna Fifield TOKYO — North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast Monday, possibly timed to coincide with the meeting of leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies in neighboring China. North Korea launched the missiles from a site south...

Brazilian legend Ronaldinho is returning to former club Barcelona to take up a role as an ambassador. Ronaldinho, who enjoyed five supremely successful seasons at the Nou Camp between 2003 and 2008, will act as a non-playing recruitment as Barcelona re-sign one of the club’s most famous...

Nearly every woman in Somaliland was subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a child. Usually, a razor blade was applied to them without an anesthetic. Campaigners want the practice stopped. Halima Hassan cannot forget the day she was forced to undergo FGM. Now aged...

The international community has called for timely and credible electoral process in Somalia and pledged funding of the polls slated for between September and October. Foreign envoys from the United Nations, the Africa Union, the European Union, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development, Britain, the United...

During his visit to Nigeria and Kenya, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at the possibility of adding software for more African languages, to ease Africans' access to the online social network's applications. Among the African languages already on the Facebook website is Hausa, a language...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has poured scorn over the latest rumours of his health, joking that he had died and was resurrected. Mr Mugabe, 92, was arriving back in the country at the main airport in Harare and appeared jovial as he disembarked. Flight data had...