Woodside Petroleum Limited (AX: WPL) sold a 14.7 percent stake in its Browse liquid natural gas (LNG) development project for $2 billion to a Japanese joint venture operated by Mitsui & Company Limited and Mitsubishi Corporation, the Australian company announced Tuesday.
Natalie Wood, the Hollywood princess who mysteriously disappeared off a yacht in 1981 is making headlines again. This time the headlines are due to her daughter, Courtney Wagner, who she had with actor Robert Wagner. Courtney Wagner was arrested this week for coke and heroin possession.
The Kentucky Derby -- with all its muscular thoroughbreds, flowery hats, and mint juleps -- put?s Louisville under a spotlight, but there's more to Derby City than Churchill Downs.
Now it?s official: Activision?s ?Call of Duty: Black Ops 2? is slated for a release date of Nov. 13 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC gamers. The sequel game?s UK website just went live on May 1 before the official reveal, confirming that ?Black Ops 2? will launch this holiday season.
Samsung Electronics (NYSE: SSNLF) reclaimed the No. 1 rank in mobile phone shipments overall and in the smartphone sector, market researcher IDC reported.
Rupert Murdoch is unfit to run a major international company, British lawmakers said on Tuesday, finding him responsible for a culture of illegal phone hacking that has convulsed his News Corporation media empire.
BP Plc (BP.L) reported a bigger-than-expected profit drop on the back of a fall in production prompted by the need to sell oil fields to pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, raising concerns about the oil group's turnaround plan.
Gold touched two-week highs on Tuesday, set for its longest stretch of daily gains in eight months, after a rally in the dollar fizzled out as investor concern escalated over the resilience of the U.S. and euro zone economies.
India's exports in March fell for the first time in two and a half years as demand weakened in Europe and the U.S.
The worldwide smartphone market grew by 42.5 percent year-over-year in Q1 2012, with South Korean technology giant Samsung overtaking Cupertino-based Apple for the smartphone leadership position.
A sex hungry 47-year-old is terrorizing the city of Munich. The German nymphomaniac has already struck terror in a man who she forced to have repeated sexual encounters with. Now, the sex fiend has left her second victim sobbing in the street.
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), the largest provider of security software, is likely to confirm prior guidance for lower-than-expected fourth-quarter results on Wednesday.
Indian State run insurance companies will indemnify local ships carrying Iranian oil, enabling the country import oil from Iran, Reuters reported quoting Shipping Corp of India director.
Microsoft is all set to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble's e-reader and tablet business, foraying into the race for digital publishing and online education.
Futures on major US stock indices point to a lower opening Tuesday ahead of economic data, which include ISM manufacturing index.
What is the ideal time to buy Apple products like the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac? While considering this question, many people tend to believe that Apple doesn't drop prices of its products except they are superseded.
South Korea's inflation declined to a 21-month low as the exports declined for the second consecutive month in April.
Japanese stock markets plunged Tuesday as weaker-than-expected US manufacturing data and news that confirmed Spain has fallen into a double-dip recession weighed on the sentiment.
The latest report from Good Technology shows that iOS devices are becoming stronger in the business world while the Android devices are still lagging far behind. The report reveals that the first quarter of the current year was dominated by the iPhone 4S, which hit a record high, claiming the number one device spot overall and accounted for 37 percent of Good's activations, followed by the iPad 2 with 17.7 percent. The new iPad, in first one and half months of its launch, has also made quite ...
India?s trade deficit rose to $13.9 billion in March compared with $3.8 billion a year ago driven by high crude oil import costs according to data reported by the Ministry of Commerce Tuesday.
The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Monday were: PLX Technology, Kona Grill, Veeco Instruments, Central European Media Enterprises, Shutterfly and ShoreTel, Inc. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: QuinStreet, PAREXEL International Corp, Integrated Device Technology, ImmunoGen and American Superconductor Corp.
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor will hire 877 more workers as it plans add a third shift at its main assembly plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
China?s manufacturing activity improved in April for the fifth straight month as economic conditions continued to strengthen, according to readings from a key gauge released Tuesday.
The share of privately-owned U.S. homes fell to a 15-year low in the first quarter as falling house prices and stringent lending conditions push younger Americans, in particular, into renting.
Google Inc and its board were sued on Monday by a shareholder who wants to block the company's stock split plan because it entrenches the Web search company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to court documents.
Exxon Mobil Corp has shut the 160,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) North Line crude oil pipeline in Louisiana after a leak spilled 1,900 barrels of crude oil in a rural area over the weekend, affecting a conduit that supplies the nation's third-largest refinery.
Stendra, the first new drug to enter the erectile dysfunction market in nearly a decade, aims to become the new Viagra alternative after receiving approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
The one constant that we can rely on is the willingness of the Federal Reserve to act promptly if the data were to become unambiguously negative
Edvard Munch's The Scream could become the most expensive painting ever sold at auction on Wednesday if predictions that the work could fetch up to $150 million are to be believed.
Nobel prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realizes a long-nurtured dream on Saturday with the opening of an actual Museum of Innocence - a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life - as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name.