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India’s economic growth hit a three-year low during the April-June period, enveloping Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a barrage of criticism for poor execution of major reforms such as the recent national sales tax and demonetization. But a new World Economic Forum study indicates his government has made progress in …

Jamie Gilliam | Reuters The scene where people were injured when a gunman opened fire at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. September 24, 2017. Nashville police say a suspect in a church shooting apparently shot himself. Metropolitan Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said at a …

Jb Reed | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employee Vanessa Suriel, foreground, assists customer Matthew Kaiser as he purchases new shoes at a Finish Line store in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Finish Line shares are tumbling again after the retailer reported second-quarter financials on Friday morning that underwhelmed the Street. The retailer’s stock …

Fyrol Mohd | AFP | Getty Images A Singapore Airlines and a Tiger Air plane parked at Changi International Airport in Singapore on July 29, 2014. A man who worked as a baggage handler at Singapore’s Changi Airport swapped tags on hundreds of bags, sending the luggage to the wrong …

Shannon Stapleton | Reuters United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 19, 2017. On cue, the U.N. Global Compact this week will be issuing a set of standards for compliance and a blueprint for leadership that will …

Bloomberg | Getty Images A pedestrian passes in front of signage displayed outside Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. headquarters in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Rupert Murdoch’s planned $15 billion takeover of European broadcaster Sky will be referred to regulators over concerns about broadcasting standards, Britain’s Culture and …

Oli Scarff | Getty Images News | Getty Images A couple look at the job vacancies on offer in the window of the Reed employment agency in London, England. The number of people in work rose to a record high of 32.136 million as 181,000 people gained jobs, the strongest …

Jim Young | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker places an assembled car seat on a conveyor belt at the Lear Corp. manufacturing facility in Hammond, Indiana. Job openings posted by U.S. employers reached an all-time high in July, suggesting that the steady hiring of the past year will endure. …

Getty Images In this NOAA-NASA GOES Project handout image, GOES satellite shows Hurricane Irma as it makes landfall on the Florida coast on Sept. 10th, 2017. Corporations with headquarters in Atlanta are bracing for Irma on Monday as the now tropical storm bears down on Georgia. The National Weather Service …

Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images An attendee holds a Xiaomi Corp. Mi A1 dual camera device during the smartphone’s launch in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Fallen Chinese tech unicorn Xiaomi is finally seeing a turnaround in its fortunes following a surge in mobile phone …