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ECB raises euro zone lending rate
Jul 3 - The European Central Bank raises interest rates for the first time in over a year by 25...
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IndyMac customers line up for cash
Jul 15 - Bank customers at a branch of failed IndyMac in Pasadena, California, wait in line to...
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Bank worries hit US consumers
Jul. 15 - After the collapse and reopening of IndyMac under federal control, consumers are facing...
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Zimbabwe prints $100 billion note
Jul 22 - Zimbabwe grappling with a record high inflation introduces a new $100 billion dollar...
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Asia stocks mixed despite oil dip
July 28 - A profit warning by Australia's third-largest bank ANZ casts a pall over Asian stocks,...
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Economic jitters weigh on Asia
Growing economic pessimism weighed on Asian investor confidence Friday, but market players looked...
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UBS splits banking business
Europe's biggest loser in the credit crunch, Swiss bank UBS, is to separate its wealth management...
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UK inflation woes
UK consumers face rising inflation that analysts warn is increasingly likely to put upward...
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Asia fears economic slowdown
Asia stocks fell sharply on Tuesday with investors worried about further signs of a global credit...
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Bank failure stuns Wall St.
Worries about the U.S. banking sector resurfaced after federal regulators were forced to take...
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Number of US troubled banks growing
117 American banks are on an updated regulatory watch list as the credit crisis shows no sign of...
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Oil stays strong on Gustav threat
Oil prices jumped as high as $119 on Wednesday with predictions Gustav will deliver a powerful blow...
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Global poverty ranks swell
The World Bank said 1.4 billion people lived under the poverty line as it lifted the benchmark to...
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Commerzbank to cut 9000 jobs
Commerzbank plans to slash around 9000 jobs and cut around 2 billion euros in costs after buying...
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Lehman revives bank-fueled angst
The health of America's financial system was once again called into question as worries grow...
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EU sees low growth, high inflation
European Commission revises key economic forecasts but Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet...
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More trouble seen at Lehman
A new strategy for ailing U.S. investment bank Lehman Bros. did little to pacify growing concerns...
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BofA quiet on Lehman buy speculation
Bank of America declined to comment on speculation it was in talks to buy investment bank Lehman...
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End of an era for Merrill
After billions of dollars in credit-related losses Merrill Lynch marks the end of an era with a...
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Lehman bankruptcy rocks Asia
Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy sent shock waves across Asia Tuesday, as much of the region came back...
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Bank worries spread; stocks plunge
The government's bailout of American International Group was not enough to stop speculation on...
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Morgan holds on amid turmoil
Morgan Stanley has survived another day but continues to explore its options, including a...
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Skeptics question bailout plan
U.S. stocks fell nearly 4 percent on Monday on jitters about the historic $700 billion bank...
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Stocks rally as lawmakers near deal
Stocks strengthened throughout the first half of the trading day as lawmakers look likely to...
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Stocks rally as bailout advances
Wall Street took its cue from Washington and as lawmakers suggested the $700 billion bank bailout...
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European shares fall on U.S. news
European shares fall in early trade, led by financials, after U.S. talks over the $700 billion...
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BOJ cheers U.S. bailout
A top Bank of Japan official expressed hope Monday a $700 billion U.S. government bailout fund...
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Hypo's deal to avoid finance squeeze
German lender Hypo Real Estate secures 35 billion euros in credit guarantees from the German...
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Europe's bank rescue
Benelux governments part nationalise Fortis, the UK nationalises Bradford & Bingley ahead of...
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Citigroup scoops up Wachovia
The sixth largest bank falls victim to the credit crisis, and Citigroup takes over.
Citi is...
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UK Consumer confidence in turmoil
Consumer confidence in Britain is at historically low levels as falling house prices and market...
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Stocks rebound with eyes on Congress
Wall Street followed its worst day in over 20 years with the biggest one-day percentage gain for...
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McCain, Obama urge bailout action
White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain are urging skeptical Americans to back a $700...
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Deutsche chief calls for Europe plan
Germany's Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann says Europe "should be prepared to...
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Wall St. slides ahead of Senate vote
Credit markets showed little sign of movement of Wednesday - as the U.S. Senate prepared to vote...
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Record drop for UK house prices
Investors speculate the figures increase the chance of an interest rate cut by the Bank of...
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Leaders call for European unity
European leaders call for a united front in tackling the financial crisis as divisions...
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Bailout passes
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a revamped $700 billion financial bailout bill Friday...
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Confusion over deposit guarantee
As more European banks follow Germany's lead and guarantee savers' deposits, Germany says it made...
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Dow touches 5-year low
Worries the government's $700 bank bailout will not be enough to prevent a recession in the U.S....
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Iceland battles economic crisis
Iceland takes over its second largest bank and props up its battered currency, the crown, in the...
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IMF: "the cusp of global recession"
IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the global economy is on the brink, but if...
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Iceland govt takes last bank
Iceland has seized control of its biggest bank Kaupthing, as it grapples to control the financial...
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Cash injection for US banks?
In an effort to jumpstart lending, the U.S. Treasury is considering giving money to U.S. banks in...
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Cold comfort for Icelanders
Angry Icelanders have staged a protest outside the central bank in Reykjavik over the way the...
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Australia guarantees deposits
Australia's Prime Minister announces plans for the government to guarantee bank deposits for the...
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Morgan stock soars on deal
Shares of Morgan Stanley soared 87 percent after it inked a deal with Japan's Mitsubishi...
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Trichet Exclusive
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet told Reuters that recent government measures...
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Wealth managers shifting gears
The credit crisis and volatile stock market are taking a toll on the relationship between wealthy...
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Germany moves to approve bailout
Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approves a 500 billion euro bank rescue package with...
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Bernanke talks of second stimulus
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Monday that another wave of government...
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Bank taps German state rescue funds
Bavaria's public sector bank BayernLB prepares to ask for funds from the German government's bank...
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Markets cheered by banks lending
As European banks line up for government rescue money there are signs institutions are regaining...
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Bernanke backs new stimulus
Fed Chairman Bernanke gave his blessing for another stimulus package, telling Congress another...
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The cost of bank bailouts
As governments around the world offer banks a helping hand, other lenders look further afield for...
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Wachovia's record $23.9 loss
Wachovia has the distinction of posting the biggest quarterly loss for a banking company during...
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Lehman fallout hits Japan's elderly
The collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers caused anguish in a small Japanese...
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Iceland boosts interest rate
Iceland's central bank says interest rate hike is part of IMF deal.
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Asian stocks mixed
Japan's benchmark Nikkei jumped on hopes the Bank of Japan would follow the Federal Reserve to...
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Japan tech firms in talks:Sources
Consumer electronics giant Panasonic is in talks with major shareholders of Sanyo Electric to buy...
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Gloom offsets UK rate slash
Wall Street followed European stocks sharply lower early Thursday as investors fear rate cuts may...
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Interview-Trichet on ECB rate cut
The head of the European Central Bank talks to Reuters about Thursday's 50 basis point rate cut...
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China spends near $600 bln
The world's fourth largest economy, China, plans to spend nearly $600 billion to boost demand in...
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G20 agrees on financial action
In Brazil, finance ministers and central bank governors representing 90 percent of the world's...
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Aid package for AIG grows to $150B
The U.S. Federal Reserve announced a revised aid package to help the insurance giant at twice the...
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Bank crisis boosts social lending
Peer-to-peer lending gets new interest as banks keep a tight rein on credit.
Thanks to the...
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Paulson on defense
Treasury Secretary Paulson defended his response to the financial crisis and said the government...
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New fear on Wall Street: Deflation
The U.S. financial system appeared to be suffering a relapse this week, while deflation was added...
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Asia eyes cenbank moves
Asian shares found support Monday on hopes about central bank action to stem rapidly slowly...
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Respite for some UK homeowners
Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland promises six-months grace for struggling homeowners for up to a...
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Credit Suisse cuts 650 jobs in UK
Swiss banker Credit Suisse and the UK's HSBC bank are axing hundreds of jobs in Britain.
New...
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PRIME entrepreneurs secure support
Bank of America team up with the Prince of Wales charity PRIME to unlock entrepreneurialism in the...
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No Christmas joy in service industry
The euro zone's services economy fell deeper into recession in November adding pressure for a deep...
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UK, ECB make record rate cuts
The European Central Bank pares rates by a record 75 basis points, while Britain's Bank of...
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Credit crunch claims Swiss bank jobs
Swiss bank Credit Suisse announces it will axe 5,300 jobs
ECB and BOE cut rates
Philips...
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HSBC gives UK home owners a boost
Europe's largest bank, HSBC, said it would raise its UK mortgage fund to 15 billion pounds in...
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World Bank: 2009 will be grim
The world economy is expected to have a tough year in 2009 with the major World economies in...
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Nikkei ignores bleak tankan
Asian investors ignored a sharp worsening in a Japanese corporate confidence Monday, as regional...
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Japan eyes new bad loan plan
Japan's government and central bank are eyeing a $110 billion bad loan buying-scheme, the Sankei...
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Business Update: UK business aid
The British government offers businesses a 30 billion dollar credit lifeline to help them...
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ECB cuts rates to two percent
The European Central Bank cuts interest rates for the fourth month running, lowering them by...
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Bank of America's new bailout
The bank gets an extra $20 billion from the US government to help it deal with losses stemming...
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Business Update: New UK bank rescue
The UK government allows banks to insure against steep losses and guarantee their debt to stop...
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Business Update: Rally after rout
The heads of Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase showed renewed confidence in the future by...
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Can a "bad bank" help the crisis?
Speculation is growing of U.S. plans to create a "bad bank," a financial institution...
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Rescue hopes lift stocks
Optimism that new plans to help the ailing economy will be put into action boosted U.S....
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Business Update: Asia stimulus hope
Passage of an $825 billion U.S. stimulus plan by the House of Representatives boosted Asian...
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Business Update: "bad" bank worries
Asia markets edged lower ahead amid worries a "bad" bank to soak up toxic debts would...
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Wall St. pans bank bailout plan
The Treasury's new bank rescue strategy was dead on arrival, as far as Wall Street was concerned,...
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Markets drop on banks plan
Wall Street took a tumble and bank stocks sank on concerns about the reworked bank rescue...
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Business Update: Asia sours
Lack of detail about a $2 trillion U.S. bank rescue soured previously optimistic Asian markets,...
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Geithner grilled over bailout plan
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to sell a $2.5 trillion financial rescue plan to some...
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UK economy faces deep recession
The latest forecast from the Bank of England is for an economic contraction of 4-percent over the...
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Business Update:Japan eyes bank plan
Japan reacted with disappointment to the U.S. bank bailout plan, as shares found only mild relief...
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Business Update: Suisse losses
Switzerland's second-largest bank posted its biggest ever annual loss after a poor fourth...
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Business Update: Lloyds slumps
Shares in UK bank Lloyds TSB slid further as investors feared the bank may need more government...
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Stanford clients swarm banks
From Mexico City to Caracas, hundreds of depositors lined up to pull money out of Stanford...
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Venezuela takes Stanford bank
The government of Venezuela moved to take control of the Stanford Bank Venezuela after it and...
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Gearing up for the G20
Berlin gets ready to host the G20 preparatory meeting, where European leaders aim to find a...
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How bank nationalization would work
The pros and cons of a possible US government takeover of increasingly troubled banks.
The...
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Business Update: Bank hopes
Parts of the U.S. Treasury's bank rescue plan will begin on Wednesday, according to an...
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Business Update: Trichet warning
The head of the European Central Bank says the euro zone's financial system is under severe...
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Citi, regulators in talks - source
The U.S. government may raise its stake in Citigroup.
Citigroup is in talks that could end...
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Party money payback
U.S. lawmakers demand that Northern Trust bank repay the money it spent on lavish...
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Business Update: Bank fears return
A Wall Street tug-of-war ended with stocks down despite reassurance the Federal Reserve was not...
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China's loan surge helps economy
China's bank regulator says a lending spree will aid the economy.
The nation's banking...
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Analysis of East Europe bailout
Analyst Nigel Rendell of RBC Capital Markets in London says more euros will be...
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Business Update: Bank shakeup
Financial Services Authority Chairman Lord Turner outlines the future of UK banking...
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Business Update: Asian stocks surge
Asian shares jump on U.S. plan to clear $1 trillion of banks' toxic assets.
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Cairo - The Pyramids and the Sphinx, normally bathed in the golden glow of high-powered...
Former actor, current hip-hop singer Joaquin Phoenix jumped into the crowd at his gig in Miami...
Thursday, scientists announced that footprints resembling the ones left in wet sand by people had...
A box of crackers with an envelope stuffed with $10,000? Now that’s a pleasant...
Washington - For 19 years, Alice Hodgkins has been working in the Centre of Hope of the Salvation...
Brussels - Money breeds contentment. But greater wealth does not automatically make people happier,...
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer won’t face charges in
connection with the hooker scandal...
If you use a radio-controlled watch in Western Europe, or observe an airport clock, the chances are...
London - It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious...
Now that her divorce from Guy Ritchie was officially confirmed, Madonna began throwing everything...
The Internet is well known for the fact that it’s an excellent provider of information, or because...
Jurors who convicted O.J. Simpson of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas say they relied more...
After a deliberation process that demanded 13 hours, the
jury assembled for OJ Simpson’s trial...
A very talented thief robbed an armored truck outside a Bank of America branch in Monroe,...
Bank robberies are usually a great subject for movies in which some greasy bad boys, dressed in...
The dancing Brazilian Helio Castroneves got caught while trying to dance around the tax laws and...
A collection of over 250 World War II postal documents, representing
evidence of the Holocaust,...
Oranjemund, Namibia - The archeologists are into raptures about the close to 500-year-old shipwreck...
Steve Spielberg finalized his exit form Paramount Pictures and signed a $1.2 billion deal with...
Opening statements for O.J. Simpson’s current trial are to begin Monday in Las Vegas, Nevada. The...
From serving the Vatican to serving time. This is the path
that Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend...
Former detective Athelson Kelson, 59, of Jamaica, Queens,
is suspected by the New York Police...
The New York Police Department officers are on the lookout for a man who attacks elderly women. The...
Hollywood actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, who took the challenge to complete the...
Cairo - An archeological mission of the Egyptian Higher Council of Antiquities (EHCA) discovered on...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the two main stars of
“Lost,” Evangeline Lilly, who plays...
The owner of a central Florida construction company reportedly tried to pay a hit man to eliminate...
Previously known to be exploiting their father’s legacy in
the past years, Martin Luther King’s...
The highly anticipated Apple developers’
conference starting Monday in San
Francisco managed to...
A grand and emotional funeral ceremony took place Thursday, May 5, at the Saint Roche church in...
“10,000 BC” took its prehistoric tale of survival and romance to the top spot on the...
Two months after Heath Ledger’s death, the New York Daily News reveals that he drafted a will in...
A 55-year-old convicted bank robber may become a living example of the “Crime doesn’t...
A Russian private bidder has bought a Faberge egg made for
the the Rothschild banking family at...
Eight people were lightly injured after a huge steel bucket of debris fell from the 53rd floor of a...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard, winner at the last four elections runs again for the same...
The Royal Swedish Academy
announced in Stockholm
on Thursday that the Literature Nobel Prize is...
The Harry Potter month kicked off with the final installment of the Harry Potter saga, "Harry...
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Washington - The US economy continues to show signs of stabilizing and may be growing again by the...
Vienna - Countries should do more to combat financial and cyber crime, UN drugs and crime office...
Jerusalem - Thousands of Christian pilgrims flocked to Jerusalem Sunday, to mark the resurrection...
London - British politicians and civil rights groups Wednesday called for a criminal inquiry...
Tehran - The presidents of Iran and Venezuela after talks Thursday said they had decided to...
Geneva - Since the beginning of the year, countries around the world have been implementing...
London - The private home of a top British banker at the centre of a heated row over lavish...
Washington - US president Barack Obama Monday added his anger to mounting criticism of the...
Washington - The United States sought to reassure other countries Friday that its long-term...
Moscow - Russian police in Siberia stormed a bank and killed an armed man who had taken five...
Washington - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang...
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at...
Yves Saint Laurent, who passed away last June at 71, and his business and personal partner, Pierre...
Berlin - Germany is caught in the midst of a gloomy economic winter with the government attempting...
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday opened an economic symposium in Paris by...
Berlin - German unemployment rose for the first time in nearly three years in December, data...
New York - The United States pitched a plan on Tuesday for a comprehensive solution to end the...
New York - The UN Security Council late Tuesday held an emergency session with envoys from 25...
Kiev - Russia is screwing down on the natural gas taps to Ukraine, and as Kiev media spin would...
Washington - The United States is pushing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would require...
Linz, Austria - The Austrian city of Linz is easily overlooked on the route between picture-perfect...
Berlin - European inflation plunged to its lowest level in more than two years in December, data...
Cairo - Earlier today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy reached the Egyptian resort of Sharm...
Taipei - According to the Central Bank, Taiwan's foreign exchange reserves...
Tokyo - For Tokyo's traders, it was the worst year on record for Asia's leading stock market -...
A shark attacked a 5-metre dinghy off the same beach and a married couple who radioed for help were...
Bethlehem, West Bank - Once again, there is no room at the inn in Bethlehem.
After years of...
Chetumal, Quintana Roo - The vast lagoons between Bacalar on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the...
New York - The United Nations may be the next unintended victim of the global economic crisis as...
Bratislava - A decade after Slovakia set out to abandon its reputation of a thuggish post-communist...
Tel Aviv/Ramallah - The Middle East peace process is hanging by a thread as 2009 is nearing - just...
Tehran - It was not the best of years for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As 2008 drew to...
Harare - In scenes that rattled the regime of President Robert Mugabe and stoked speculation its...
Myawaddy, Myanmar - Go to those places where poor countries meet rich and you will find hope. The...
Athens - Hooded youths hurled firebombs at the environment ministry, banks and businesses in more...
Jerusalem - Saying he felt "ashamed," acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday...
Athens and Thessaloniki were ablaze on Saturday and Sunday
as people, mostly youths, protesting...
Tel Aviv - The tense, violent standoff surrounding a disputed house in Hebron underscores once...
Tel Aviv/Ramallah - The Middle East peace process is hanging by a thread as 2009 is nearing - just...
Sydney - Tourists asked what they want from a holiday in Australia usually bang on about native...
Rio de Janeiro - The rains that devastated 30 towns in the southern Brazilian state of Santa...
Berlin - Inflation in the 15-member eurozone fell sharply in November and unemployment edged...
Brussels - The European Union on Wednesday called on member states to help the bloc avoid a deep...
Brussels - The head of the European Union's executive has an ambitious Christmas wish this year: he...
Brussels - The European Union on Wednesday called on member states to help the bloc avoid a deep...
Berlin - A slump in exports and a contraction in investment pushed Germany into a recession during...
Riga - The Latvian government might have thought its announcement on November 20 that it was in...
Johannesburg - The Elders on Monday urged Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change...
Berlin - German business confidence plunged to near a 16-year low in November, a key survey...
U.S. President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and...
Sydney - People wondering why it's taken 13 years to pin the murder of Sydney model Caroline Byrne...
Reykjavik/Dieburg - Karlheinz Bellmann went to Iceland to find out what had happened to his...
Washington - The world's 20 leading economies are holding an historic summit in Washington Saturday...
Washington - The world's 20 top economies launched on Saturday an historic summit aimed at...
Vienna - Slovakia outpaced other Central European economies in the third quarter, posting solid...
Washington - As leaders of the Group of 20 nations gather for Saturday's historic meeting, one of...
Belgrade - Serbia's ruling coalition announced a 15-month, 520- million dollar standby credit with...
Beijing - Today, Shares on China's two stock markets managed to get up by 3 percent.
The key...
Reykjavik/Oslo - The president of Iceland issued a statement today, expressing his anger and...
Washington/Berlin - The leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies will hold an historic meeting...
Taipei - Many people in Taiwan on Wednesday welcomed the detainment of former President Chen...
Saturday, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
urged international finance ministers to...
Wellington - New Zealand's new Prime Minister, John Key, 47, who steered his conservative National...
Wellington - New Zealand's conservative National Party is poised to sweep from power the Labour-led...
Wellington - A Halloween pizza promotion depicting Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary dancing in...
Moscow - Russia watchers were long curious to hear President Dmitry Medvedev's first national...
Paris - The European Union is extending a loan of 6.5 billion euros (8.25 billion dollars) to...
Amsterdam - It's a beautiful Autumn day in Buitenveldert, one of Amsterdam's most popular...
Frankfurt - The euro plunged to a three-year low Friday, slipping below 1.25 dollars, amid...
New York - United Nations leaders on Thursday called on the international community to assist the...
Paris - President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday the French government will establish an...
Tallinn - The Estonian economy is expected to remain in recession until 2010 according to a...
Kiev - President Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for a tougher defence of the Ukrainian...
Brussels - European Union leaders Wednesday endorsed a major financial rescue package but remained...
Montreal - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, buoyed by gains in Tuesday's parliamentary...
London- Gordon Brown is on a roll. No more gloomy poll news for the fingernail-chewing British...
Brussels - European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Wednesday were set to rubber-stamp a...
Brussels - European Union summits are traditionally the time when tough decisions are made and...
Washington - You might call it the fourth crisis.
While collapsing financial institutions plunge...
London - Ahead of Sunday's vital EU summit in Paris to deal with the global financial crisis,...
Tokyo - In order to ease disruptions amid the global financial
crisis, the Bank of Japan pumped 1...
Luxembourg - The European Union should save all "financial institutions which are vital to the...
Harare/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's economic catastrophe is plunging the country into an...
Sydney - You have to be over 16 in Australia to have lived at a time when the economy was not...
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
Stockholm/Copenhagen - Sweden and Denmark announced Monday they joined the growing group of...
Washington - An influential international banking lobby group on Thursday called for urgent and...
Washington - Pablo Fierro came to Washington from Philadelphia for a rally against the proposed...
Washington - Congressional leaders on Thursday were confident that the House of Representatives...
Cairo - A peaceful end to Egypt's tourist hostage crisis this week and no apparent link between the...
Washington - The Democrats who control the US Senate and minority Republicans have agreed to hold a...
Washington - The US presidential candidates on Tuesday spent the day after a 700-billion-dollar...
Washington
- The US House of Representatives on Monday rejected a massive government plan
to...
London - Britain's Conservatives
were set to start their party conference Sunday, with party...
United
Nations officials stated Thursday that a plan backed by approximately $3 billion
in...
New York - Despite a massive financial crisis afflicting rich countries, a one-day United Nations...
Tokyo - It has not been so long since the world worried about Japan's financial sector.
After...
Washington - The US treasury secretary and central bank head Tuesday outlined details of a historic...
Tel Aviv - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a narrow victory Thursday in the leadership primary of...
Thailand's Supreme Court for political office holders on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for...
Jerusalem - The Israeli government is deeply divided ahead of a debate scheduled for Sunday on a...
A veteran NYPD detective who was awarded a Silver Star for gallantry in action and the Purple Heart...
Ex-cop and Vietnam veteran Athelston Kelson, 59, turned to
the other side of the long arm of the...
Washington/St Paul, Minnesota - St Paul, Minnesota, is the official site of the Republican Party's...
Jerusalem/Ramallah - Israeli and Palestinian officials negotiating a peace deal have not yet...
Ramallah - Russia's decision to recognise the independence of Georgia's rebel regions of Abkhazia...
Beijing/London - London is in the best of moods for the 2012 Olympics after a light-hearted...
New York City police are looking for a black man, about 6-foot-1 and weighing 210 pounds, who was...
More than 800 government-owned buildings in New York City will no longer be exempt from safety...
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a
fourth time Friday on two alleged...
According to the first verdict in a series of corruption
cases directed at the former Thai Prime...
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Police are searching for a man who opened fire inside a credit union and then fled the scene in a...
According to revenue calculations completed by Forbes for the last twelve months, Will Smith was...
The Coast Guard reported that a 12-mile stretch of the
Mississippi river at the New Orleans had to...
Lesson number one: when you want to rob a bank, do not use
your personal checks as notes. Lesson...
Barack Obama's campaign said on Tuesday it hauled approximately $52 million in June. The amount...
A fire exchange occurred in Istanbul near the United States Consulate on Wednesday leading to the...
Police investigating the murder of two French students in
the brutal knife attack in London
have...
At least three people were killed and many more were injured on Wednesday in Jerusalem when a...
Israeli police are investigating what seems to have been the suicide death of a policeman, who...
Tuesday, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President was in Bethlehem to meet Palestinian president...
The European Union members agreed to impose new sanctions against Iran after Teheran refused to...
Connecticut police are
looking for a man who escaped from a psychiatric unit at the Connecticut...
Myanmar will observe three days of mourning beginning today (Tuesday) for the victims of Cyclone...
During yesterday’s annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank
in Madrid, the decision reached...
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, finished today
her Middle East visit with a talk with...
A 21-year-old Texas man was arrested last week for trying to
cash a stolen check of $360 billion...
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has made
an appeal for a global effort to end...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has arrived in Washington
for an official visit, during which...
Israel officials have allowed Gaza’s power plant to receive
fuel, after alerts about its forced...
Former President Jimmy Carter met Friday night in Syria the
exiled leader of the militant Islamist...
The Israeli government announced today new plans to
construct 100 new homes at settlements in the...
A bank teller who was put under arrest on Thursday and charged for conspiring with the NYPD...
Hamas militants ambushed Iraqi troops yesterday in the
Gaza Strip, causing the death of eighteen...
The response of the United States to the food crisis that is already affecting the world’s poorest...
On his way to become a New York City police officer, Christian Torres, a 21-year-old "model...
The Central Bank of Japan has a new elected chief, Masaaki
Shirakawa who was already in the...
The remains of four more victims of the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center have been...
Virginia State Police announced they have put under arrest a man in connection with the shooting...
Iowa City police managed to put together the pieces and solved the puzzle of what seems to be the...
Investigators hope to find out more clues that could help them solve the case of the five people...
The Iowa City police are searching a white man in his 40s in connection with the killing of four...
A 45-year-old woman suspected in four bank robberies in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa
Beach...
Sara Jane Olson, a former member of the Symbionese Liberation
Army, was freed from jail Thursday...
Probers are currently investigating whether Gov. Spitzer
used tax dollars for trysts with...
One man died and another was seriously injured during a fight
in Temecula over the weekend, which...
Israeli authorities have imposed
stronger security measures on Jerusalem
after a Palestinian...
Despite the withdrawal of Israeli
ground troops on Monday, two Palestinian militants were killed...
According to police, a man opened fire in a bank in Waterbury,
a western Connecticut city, on...
On Saturday Israel
was attacked by rockets fired by the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip,...
Authorities believe they have located the wreckage of a plane carrying a Fullerton Couple and two...
The assets of Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan were temporarily frozen by a federal judge as a result...
Arson was not ruled out by police regarding the fire at a
German building on Sunday, where nine...
A woman was killed by a suicide bomber on Monday in the
southern Israeli town of Dimona.
The...
According to the Xinhua News Agency, two cargo ships collided
on Wednesday morning at the mouth of...
Police succeeded in catching four of the gunmen who took 52 hostages in a bank robbery...
News on the Marine wanted for the
murder of colleague Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child...
World Bank’s headquarters in Washington was evacuated for Tuesday and all the employees were told...
The US
Justice Department announced Mark Deli Siljander, a former Republican
Representative, has...
A man who allegedly fired shots during an Oakland gas station robbery, which seriously
injured a...
A man working at the Trump tower in the stylish SoHo neighborhood has reportedly died in an...
A luxury hotel in Afghanistan was bombed by
terrorists.
Taliban terrorists say that their...
Investigators in the case of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, declared missing by her mother on...
President George W Bush arrived in Kuwait Friday on the second leg of a nine-day
Middle East tour...
A nationwide search is on for 20-year-old Marine Lance
Corporal Maria Lauterbach, missing from...
An autopsy report has found that Meredith Emerson, the young hiker whose body was found Monday...
Two people have been killed and more than 35 injured people
have been sent to the Madison area...
The Israeli troops have carried out an overnight raid into the Gaza Strip in which they killed two...
The streets of Bethlehem were once again crowded on Monday, thousands of Christian pilgrims...
Israeli and Palestinian representatives were prepared Monday to return to the negotiating table for...
Israeli and Palestinians officials have begun today the peace
negotiations after a break of almost...
On Tuesday morning southern Gaza Strip was attacked by
Israeli tanks and bulldozers backed by air...
Almost 40 people were killed and other 74 are missing after
a gas explosion hit a coal mine in...
A former priest who stole $1.3 million from his parish to
support a life of luxury was sentenced...
Israel
released on Monday 429 Palestinian prisoners as a peace gesture towards
Palestinian...
According to Palestinian medical officials, three Hamas
militants were killed and one was wounded...
According to the FBI, a couple wanted in the disappearance
of $7 million in cash and checks from...
A strong earthquake of 7.4-magnitude on the Richter scale
hit several Caribbean holiday islands...
Israel's
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview that if the negotiations
towards a...
The U.S.
military said on Tuesday that American troops fired on vehicles that tried to
break...
Most Israelis support the assembling of the next week’s Annapolis conference on the...
On Wednesday Israel
declared that it had authorized a shipment of 25 armored vehicles and...
Syria has reportedly announced it will boycott the Middle East peace conference which will be held...
Late Monday Israeli and Palestinian officials met in
Ramallah, West Bank in order to make a joint...
After meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Tehran on Monday, Iranian President...
On Thursday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in a
televised speech that the Hamas must be...
The leaders of Israel
and the Palestinian Authority addressed yesterday Turkey’s
Parliament, in...
According to a Fatah representative Hamas arrested almost
400 Fatah supporters overnight after the...
On Monday more than 100,000 of Palestinians, Fatah
supporters gathered in Gaza
City to...
Security forces made use of plastic bullets, tear gas, and
water cannons against thousands of...
Amid large protests held by students against his planned reforms, Venezuelan leftist president Hugo...
The latest Israeli security plan to disrupt of the electricity and fuel supply to the...
During his state visit in Morocco, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy was expected to make a speech...
Accusations over a plot in June to kill kill Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert were traded by...
Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his American counterpart Robert Gates held a meeting in...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was questioned for five hours by the police at his official...
Spanish police arrested the entire leadership of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna...
German media reports that German train drivers carried on with their announced strike parked their...
A Chilean judge ordered the arrests of the widow and five children of the late Gen. Augusto José...
Israeli authorities released 29 Palestinian prisoners Tuesday, after 57 ex-detainees crossed into...
Spain and Portugal reached an agreement on Monday to cooperate in the future investigations...
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners crossed into the West Bank Monday after being released from an...
Egyptian authorities have allowed about 100 Palestinians to return to Gaza Sunday through the Rafah...
Donors pledged to give nearly 10 billion dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and...
Myanmar and Somalia have been ranked as the most corrupt countries in the world in the 2007...
After the Israeli government declared the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip a “hostile entity,” Israel’s...
Baghdad and Basra were rocked Tuesday by a series of powerful explosions that claimed at least nine...
An explosion has reportedly occurred overnight in Spain's Basque region right next to a police...
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will have to face a criminal investigation into the purchase of...
A Fatah official said Saturday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not been advised to...
An Israeli soldier and one Palestinian militant have been killed early Tuesday during intense fire...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not attend the regional peace summit scheduled to take...
In a book that will be published Monday, former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan heavily...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that he and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have...
Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank left their disagreements aside on Thursday and...
Turkish police evacuated an area in central Ankara Tuesday after finding a bomb hidden inside a van...
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed Monday to...
The Gaza Strip was again the scene of intense clashes between Hamas security forces and supporters...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Sunday that the electoral law has been modified, a...
Tension continues to rise in the Gaza Strip after Hamas security forces clashed with Fatah...
Supporters of the Fatah movement carried out a protest action in the Gaza Strip on Friday, but...
During the past 24 hours, clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian gunmen left...
The main power plant in Gaza received fuel on Wednesday and resumed its operations, electricity...
The National Assembly of Venezuela unanimously approved the reforms proposed by President Hugo...
Three militants died in Gaza on Tuesday after Israeli aircrafts carried out an air raid in the...
A fire broke out Saturday afternoon at a skyscraper that formerly hosted the Deutsche Bank offices...
The prominent Hamas leader and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Ismail...
Israel will receive military aid valued at 30 billion dollars from the United States in the...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed his wish to change the country’s constitution in a way...
After prosecutors requested arrest warrants for Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
After Hamas seized control of Gaza, the feud with Fatah continues on a politic level with both...
Dozens of Jewish settlers were evacuated on Tuesday by Israeli troops from two buildings illegally...
Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday in order...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates kicked-off another tour...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin assured embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Moscow...
Several rockets were fired Sunday from Gaza towards Israeli settlements by members
of the...
French investigators linked Dominique de Villepin to a
scandal that has president Nicolas Sarkozy...
Today Tony Blair, the special Middle East envoy for the
quartet of the United States,
United...
Early Friday Israel
freed freed 255 Palestinian prisoners, most of them members of...
Israel announced it will release 256 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday in order to show its support...
During a speech held on Monday, US President George Bush made an appeal to Palestinian and Israeli...
The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed that North Korea closed its nuclear reactor,...
South Korea sent the first shipment of heavy oil to North Korea, as part of the six-party deal that...
According to Los Angeles Times, the most expensive mansion
in the US
has gone on sale. "The...
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan are scheduled to meet with officials in Israel on July...
The IAEA formally agreed Monday to send a team of inspectors to North Korea to verify the shutdown...
Former US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick was greeted with applause by World Bank staff...
Part of the hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of tax funds frozen by Israel over the...
North Korea has permitted IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear reactor in Yongbyon on Thursday, as...
British press reports announced Tuesday that outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair would be...
Monday’s four-way summit in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh started with...
US envoy Christopher Hill said Friday that he had held “good discussions” with North...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet in...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet this weekend...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in talks with US officials to take on the role of a Middle...
Italian judges have indicted four international banks on charges relating to Parmalat’s...
Jamal Tirawi, a Fatah lawmaker, was arrested early Tuesday
by an Israeli army unit in the northern...
Palestinians’ situation in the occupied territories has
worsened significantly, with 2.4 million...
Israeli military raided Thursday the West
Bank, arresting 33 senior officials of the ruling...
Israeli aviation launched rockets at two buildings in
central Gaza Strip Tuesday morning before...
Up to 110,000 people have been affected by the worst floods
in Uruguay
since 1959, with more...
The European Central Bank did not change its benchmark refinancing
rate on hold Thursday, but it...
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Washington - American International Group Inc (AIG), the troubled global insurance giant that...
Stockholm - Volvo Cars, the Swedish subsidiary of US automotive giant Ford, and the Swedish...
New York - About 10 large US banks will need to increase their capital under a government...
Washington - With the US central bank expected to release the results of long-awaited bank stress...
Sydney - The head of Australia's most admired financial institution was stoic...
Washington - The long ailing US carmaker Chrysler LLC was to enter bankruptcy protection Thursday...
Paris - Daniel Bouton, chairman of the French bank Societe Generale, was to quit...
New York - Major US stock indices fell for a second straight day Tuesday as concerns over the...
Washington - Chrysler LLC reportedly reached a deal Tuesday with its creditors to write off...
Beijing - The expansion of the Chinese economy slowed to a record low in...
New York - JP Morgan Chase reported a better-than-expected first quarter profit on Thursday, the...
Washington - The US Federal Reserve on Wednesday said a number of regions are reporting an easing...
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday spoke about the...
Washington - More than a year into one of the longest and deepest US recessions in living memory,...
Tokyo - Tokyo's markets lost ground Tuesday as investor concerns grew about the...
New York - A banking rally helped US stocks make limited gains after mixed trading Monday, which...
Tokyo - Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) has announced Friday that...
New York - A rally of bank shares pushed US stock indices up on Thursday after Wells Fargo reported...
London - The Bank of England Thursday left the key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent, already...
London - Britain's troubled Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Tuesday announced 9,000 job losses in...
Tokyo - Japan's foreign reserves exceeded 1 trillion dollars in March,...
Zurich - Four key central banks have agreed to provide foreign currency to the Federal Reserve so...
Bern, Switzerland - E-mail, internet bill paying and other electric substitutes had already...
Washington - US accounting standards were relaxed Thursday to allow banks to take a longer-term...
London - The world's biggest economic powers reached a deal Thursday aimed at forging a new global...
Vienna - The head of one of Austria's oldest business dynasties, Julius Meinl V, was detained on...
London - US President Barack Obama wound up his first day on the world political stage Wednesday,...
Johannesburg - Football fans applied for over 1.6 million tickets for the 2010 football World Cup...
Washington - The United States is reviewing existing free- trade deals and will take other...
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