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The global airline industry will also likely see 800-million more travelers by 2014, and more than a quarter of them will come from China.

Arabs celebrated the fall of President Hosni Mubarak on Friday, praising the determination of Egypt's protesters and hoping their demands for change would echo through the Middle East.

Political unrest in Egypt and Tunisia may discourage Western job seekers from moving to the Gulf region as Arab governments focus more on youth unemployment, a recruitment agency report showed.

Irish oil and gas explorer Aminex Plc said on Friday it would increase its stake in a natural gas-bearing exploration block in Tanzania through an agreement with Australia's Key Petroleum.

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic news network which has already been shut down in Egypt, said six of its English-speaking journalists have been arrested in Egypt, amidst continuing unrest in the country.

The state news agency of Oman reported that authorities in the country have discovered a spy ring working from its neighbor, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Favourable weather and currencies boosted Kenya's 2010 tea crop and export earnings to record levels, and the sector overtook horticulture as the country's top hard currency earner, officials said on Monday.

Bullish earnings and dividend expectations pushed Industries Qatar (IQCD.QA) (IQ) to a 28-month high on Thursday, helping Doha's Index .QSI reach a similar milestone.

Oil prices at $100 a barrel would not harm the world economy and there is no need for OPEC to hold an emergency meeting or add supplies, Libya's top oil official said on Thursday.

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion said it has given India the means to access its Messenger service and reiterated that no changes could be made to allow monitoring of secure corporate emails.

India’s trade body National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has refuted public perception in the US that outsourcing jobs to India are contributing to job losses for US companies and that free trade agreements were responsible for America’s current economic woes.

It makes sense for China to invest heavily in green energy.

An Irish delegation led by former prime minister John Bruton has travelled to the Middle East, gauging the interest of Arab investors, including sovereign wealth funds, in buying some troubled Irish banks, as the Dublin government seeks foreign investors for financial investment.

Crude production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dropped in November by around 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 29.1 million bpd, a Platts survey of oil industry officials and analysts showed on Monday.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton embarked on a four-day visit to Asia on Tuesday amid publication of classified US State Department cables by WikiLeaks that continued to make headlines around the world.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that the documents published by whistle-blower website Wikileaks were released intentionally by the U.S. administration. In an interview to the state-run Press TV Ahmadinejad maintained that the documents would not impact the country's relations with other Arab governments.

A global study from Motorola says more people prefer paid TV content rather than free-to-air, despite the latter being more available.

According to government figures, in 2008, merchandise shipped into the U.S. by airplane accounted for 20 percent of the nation’s imports, with a value of $417 billion. That’s a great deal of items and only one, or two, would have to explode to have, through terror, a crippling effect upon the nation’s economy, to say nothing of the nation’s spirit.

Combat aircraft accounted for one-third share in worldwide transfers of major weapons in the past five years, says a report on Wednesday.

As a growing oil consumer and importer, China is taking strategic steps to secure its oil imports from the Middle East by strengthening its influence in the South Asia/Indian Ocean region.