The global economy is set to post solid growth this year, amid improving world trade and better performance by large emerging markets, but key risks could still threaten the outlook, the World Bank said Sunday.

He had just secured a great win, but on the night Emmanuel Macron captured the French presidency, several hundred far-left and anti-capitalist activists and anarchists took to the streets.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has "timed well" this Thursday's snap general election because Britons face a major squeeze on consumer spending in the coming years, economists say.

The battle is on in Barcelona, Spain's popular Mediterranean city where two airlines have started competing for passengers in the emerging trend of low-cost, long-haul flights.

Top airline industry players are meeting Monday and Tuesday in Cancun to seek alternatives to the U.S. and British bans on laptops and tablets on certain flights, which they say is hurting business.

SGBL Bank on Thursday invited a large number of clients, prospects and public figures from the Bekaa region to a conference entitled “Investment in Bekaa - Horizons, Incentives and Opportunities”, moderated by Yasser Akkaoui, director of Executive magazine, at the Massabki Hotel in Chtaura.

US coatings firm PPG announced Thursday it was abandoning its bid to take over its Dutch rival, the world's leading paintmaker AkzoNobel, in the wake a bitter court battle.

A secretive group of global power brokers including politicians, bankers, business titans and European royalty gather behind closed doors starting Thursday to debate the merits of Donald Trump's fledgling US presidency.

Unemployment in Germany hit a new historic low in May, official data showed on Wednesday, in a sign that Europe's largest economy remains in rude health.

Japanese employers are scrambling to find staff, unemployment is at its lowest level in more than two decades and the labour market is tighter than it was during Japan's booming bubble economy years.

This should be great news for the world's number three economy, but analysts are warning not to pop the champagne quite yet because it is mostly due to a shrinking labour force. And many jobs are temporary and pay very little.