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Officials still said that there was no way to avoid an eventual default if debt limit is not raised.

Uighur activists claim arrests are part of crackdown on their ethnic group in northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang

Taliban tells Americans not to trust US politicians, who 'suck blood of own their people'.

BoJ Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso said US economy is facing "greatest uncertainty" due to political impasse.

US president calls on Republicans to end government shutdown and lift debt ceiling before any negotiations on fiscal issues.

The International Monetary Fund also warns over the impact from the US government shutdown

US' biggest foreign creditor tells US Congress to resolve the political impasse over the budget for 2014

Investors fear foreigners will reduce investments in India and drag markets down.

350,000 furloughed US government employees ordered to report to work on 7 October.

Offices enforcing curbs on Iran stretched for resources due to shutdown.

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America chiefs meet Obama as he blames Republicans for impasse.

Experts back ECB president view that Washington budget shutdown will be short-lived and solution will be found.

Federation of Small Businesses' chairman Mike Cherry says the government must strike a balance between "boosting consumer spending and economic growth".

But market strategist says first shutdown in 17 years couldn't come at more difficult time for the Federal Reserve

American journalist Rob Kall accuses Obama and NSA executives of mismanaging agency.

Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former central minister whose career was a case study for students at Harvard University, is convicted of corruption by an Indian court.

Only two arrests as thousands line streets of Manchester to protests against austerity and NHS changes.

Congress has one day to decide how to continue funding government beyond 30 September

Congress must vote to keep US government running beyond 1 October.

Thousands of people took to streets of Sudan's capital Khartoum to demand resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Uncertainty over US budget and Fed bond programme impacts market.

Cookson won by a 24-18 majority to become the 10th different UCI president

Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act to ban communication intercepts.

Senator speaks for more than 20 hours against healthcare reforms backed by President Obama.

Regulators have not done enough to fix the global financial system since 2008

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says he will meet Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the United Nations gathering in New York.

Richard Exell says people are living through the longest real wage squeeze in over a century.

About 20% of retail space is vacant in India, as FDI reforms in retail sector failed to attract foreign firms.

Outgoing Bank of England official says the US has done better in tackling risky banks

Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch could arrive in the first quarter of 2014, industry sources claim.