Last week a northern China highway virtually became a parking area when around 10,000 trucks became stuck in a 120 kilometre...

Nearly six million people in the UK have paid the wrong amount of...

Burger King has made the decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian...

The Indian auto components sector is likely to grow five times to $110 billion in the next...

A decline of 54,000 people in the US workforce has been described as far less than...

UCLA researchers in the US have fabricated the fastest ever graphene...

Despite fears that British Airway’s cabin crew dispute could widen, passengers still flew with the airline in the peak month of August, when the airline carried 3,154,000...

The Irish Examiner newspaper has indicated it will cut staff pay by...

Russian and Azerbaijan are about to change their gas ratios. Azerbaijan last week agreed to more than double its natural gas exports to Russia, through the Azerbaijani state oil company...

The Nigerian economy is due to hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - Investigators looking into what went wrong in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are a step closer to answers now that a key piece of evidence is secure aboard a ship. Engineers...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) - Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Mark Hurd may join Oracle Corp.'s senior management, people familiar with the situation told The Wall Street...

The 'cult of the equity' that prompted investors to favor stocks at the expense of bonds is dead, according to a top Citigroup analyst. AFP...

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai shares rose the most in more than two months, leading a Middle East rally, after growth in U.S. private employment fueled optimism that the world’s biggest economy...

TOKYO (Nikkei)--Gunze Ltd. (3002.TO), known generally as a time-honored underwear maker, is rapidly refashioning itself into a technology-solutions company, the Nikkei reported in its Sunday edition....

By Fang Yan and Ken Wills TIANJIN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Major Chinese automakerChongqing Changan Automobile is in talks with Ford Motor toexpand their partnership...

* Specific currencies not discussed at all - official (Updates with currencies) By Yoo Choonsik and Rachel Armstrong GWANGJU, South Korea, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The world economyis recovering moderately...

Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY), the world's largest computer-memory-chip maker by revenue, is considering investing a record KRW30 trillion ($25.58 billion) next year to bolster its...

KPC ), a sourcefamiliar with the matter said on Sunday. Zanki, who will replace Saad al-Shuwaib, was informed ofhis appointment on Saturday and is expected to start "withinthese days", the source...

Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE, SSNHY), the world's largest computer-memory-chip maker by revenue, is considering investing a record KRW30 trillion ($25.58 billion) next year to bolster its...

Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division today previewed its highly anticipated entertainment and gaming system, Kinect for Xbox 360 for media in the UAE. Based around a webcam-style add-on...

TimeStream Software announces free downloads of its fun "Walt Disney World Secrets" Notescast app for the iPod Classic and iPod nano - For a limited...

* Mariner fire an "industrial accident"-Salazar (Recasts, adds government inspectors don't find leaking oil) By Bruce Nichols HOUSTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S. government inspectorsfound no leaking...

Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday. Suzuki aims to start operations at the new plant as soon as 2013, the newspaper reported without citing a source. The automaker, which first started...

IRDA will set up a centralised grievance redressal mechanism to ensure that the problems of customers in the life and non-life sectors are addressed in a time-bound manner. "The authority is in the...

National Capital Region accounted for over 50 per cent of the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the country during the first quarter of 2010-11, says industry ministry's latest data....

Oil prices have finally overcome the landmark psychological barrier and reached the level of $100.01 per barrel in New York yesterday. The price marked the new all-time record of the oil market and...

INTERNATIONAL E-TRANSACTION PLATFORM OPENS IN XINJIANG The Asia-Europe International Trading Center opened Wednesday in Kuytun City, in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officials...

LOS ANGELES - Paul Conrad used his pencil like a weapon. His long lines and jagged angles seemed to point directly at the leaders he deemed charlatans and fools in need of deflating. In a career of...

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Newcrest Mining Ltd., set to buy smaller rival Lihir Gold Ltd. for $9.6 billion, said it’s eyeing further merger and acquisition opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region...

Tough economic times and aggressive campaigning by the Republicans weigh heavy on President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. Follow Reuters for complete analysis, opinion and polls ahead of the...

Kickstarting the Economy President Obama will announce some new proposals to help small businesses, but Republicans are voicing opposition. Bill Plante...

"Fracking" Fuels Environmental Concerns A drilling method called "fracking" is contaminating people's drinking water and dividing rural landowners. Armen Keteyian...

Kathy and Dan Kvinge of Lino Lakes, holding pictures of their kids, John, 24 and Anne, 22, are pleased that Graco, Dan’s employer, decided to extend coverage for dependents sooner than required...

Jeremy Freborg shelled out $3,200 for an extended warranty on his 2003 Audi when he bought it two years ago. When he tried to use the warranty, he found out the company had gone out of business and...

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Victoria was hit by storms and flooding, with three towns in the northeast of Australia’s second-most-populous state being evacuated, emergency services...

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Storm Earl raced across Nova Scotia, nearing the end of its march up the eastern Atlantic coast, after making landfall this morning near the community of Western...

Published Date: September 05, 2010 NEW YORK: US stocks could start next week with investors feeling a bit more optimistic about the economy, thanks to a stronger-than-expected jobs report, making...

Published Date: September 05, 2010 NEW YORK: Wall Street heads into next week with strong tailwind from recent days' rally and brighter outlook as traders keenly await President Barack Obama to...

Published Date: September 04, 2010 LONDON: Oil nudged into positive territory yesterday when the release of stronger than expected US employment data calmed expectations of a double-dip recession,...

Ocado's chief executive, Tim Steiner, cannot be pleased that online grocer's shares are still trading well below the float price. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the...

HSBC 's head of investment banking and hot favourite to be its next chief executive, says he would like to be crystal clear. "Our preference is to remain headquartered in the UK," he told a...

Francesca Rijks , the 12-year-old who took her violin on holiday so as to keep practising her scales.Unfortunately, Francesca made the news only...

The wicked world of the internet, of course, swills with bile as well as blessedly free information. Supposed facts can be published in a trice around the globe. Reputations lie in pawn at the malign...

Mad Men stars January Jones (L), Elisabeth Moss (C) and Christina Hendricks pose backstage after the show's Emmy win for outstanding drama series. Photograph: Danny...

Sometimes events weave their own bizarre pattern. In Britain, the biggest media story of the week sees Pakistan cricket covered in dung: bad news for all the sporting world. Over in America, though,...

You can have opinion (and hope, and aspiration) or you can have facts. Benedict Evans, at Enders Analysis, has just trawled through all the data of newspaper finances present and future – and he...