LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s education minister tried on Tuesday to defend a U-turn over a school exam grading system used to replace cancelled tests, which opponents said was another example of the government’s incompetent handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, the government ditched a mathematical model used to assess

PARIS (Reuters) - Ligue 1’s opening match of the new season has been postponed from Friday night after Olympique de Marseille said they had confirmed four cases of COVID-19, French professional soccer’s governing body the LFP said on Tuesday.

“In view of medical results passed on by Olympique Marseille (...) the LFP has decided to postpone the Olympique de Marseille/AS Saint-Etienne game to Sept 16 or Sept 17”, the LFP said in statement.

The game

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s low unemployment rate on paper suggests an economy weathering the coronavirus reasonably well, but official figures belie worsening prospects for the country’s army of temporary workers, who make up about 40% of the jobs market.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway’s $1.15 trillion wealth fund expects more turmoil on financial markets as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, a top fund official said on Tuesday, after it posted a 188-billion-crown loss ($21 billion) in the first half of 2020.

ROME (Reuters) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun dismissed as “impossible” the chance that a vast explosion in Beirut’s port this month was caused by a blast from a deposit of Hezbollah arms, but said that all possibilities would be investigated.

Lebanese authorities are probing what caused massive amounts of ammonium nitrate warehoused unsafely for years at the port

CHENNAI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Tuesday refused to allow the reopening of Vedanta’s south Indian copper smelter, more than two years after it was closed because of pollution concerns that triggered violent protests.

LONDON (Reuters) - Today’s $72 trillion question for investors: To buy or not to buy into the global equities rally? Notwithstanding inflated share prices, politics and the pandemic, the answer from many is a resounding “yes.”

That’s not just because unprecedented stimulus - $20 trillion and counting - is forcing

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia posted its biggest trade surplus in nine years in July, as exports improved while domestic demand for imports remained subdued amid the coronavirus pandemic, data from the statistics bureau showed on Tuesday.

Southeast Asia’s largest economy reported a $3.26 billion surplus in July, the bureau said, the biggest since August, 201

SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Ramped-up U.S. restrictions on Huawei are likely to choke the Chinese company’s access to even off-the-shelf chips, threaten its crown as the world’s largest smartphone maker and disrupt global tech supply, executives and experts warned.

The Trump administration expanded its curbs on Huawei on Monday