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* Groups have attacked shops mainly owned by African migrants

Malaysia's former leader Najib Razak approved a plan to bail out troubled state fund 1MDB by offering stakes in several big infrastructure projects to Chinese firms in 2016, a former aide told a court on Wednesday.

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Risks attached to no-deal Brexit test age-old assumption of ‘Tories Good, Labour Bad’

The European Central Bank needs to keep policy loose for a long time but should carry out a broader review of policy that also takes into account global challenges like climate change, Christine Lagarde, the bank's likely next president said.

* EM currencies set for best day in near 11-weeks as dollar dips

Marks & Spencer chairman Archie Norman has said he is unperturbed by the British retailer's share price slide, with his focus on the long term, but relegation from the prestigious FTSE 100 index is a symbol of its decline.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Wednesday, tracking broader Asia as investors cheered a private survey that showed accelerating growth in China's services sector amid fears of a global slowdown. Activity in China's services sector expanded at the fastest pace in three months in August...

Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways said on Wednesday that its Chairman John Slosar had resigned from the board and will be replaced by Patrick Healy, a long-time executive at the airline's top shareholder Swire Pacific Ltd.

Emirates President Tim Clark challenged engine makers Rolls-Royce and GE to improve their reliability, saying the airline would not take new Airbus and Boeing planes unless minimum performance standards were met.

The CEOs of Germany's two largest listed banks on Wednesday warned that a further cut in interest rates by the European Central Bank would risk serious side effects while having only minimal effect on the economy.

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