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Medco Health Solutions Inc. bought a majority stake in Europa Apotheek Venlo, for $120 million, a company that provides mail-order pharmacy services and clinical health care to the Dutch and German markets.

The U.N. Security Council agreed on Monday to meet in later this month to discuss incentives previously offered to Iran on its nuclear program, U.S. officials said.

Commodity Online Warning that if the EU s Emissions Trading System (ETS) is not implemented properly it will spell negative impact, the WWF said that polluting electricity generators in Eur...

President George Bush support for NATO membership expansion went unheard on Thursday at the final summit he will attend as a U.S. president. The alliance decided the time wasn't ripe for Georgia and Ukraine to join, while allies agreed to send out more troops to Afghanistan.

NATO concluded the first day of annual summit meeting on a factious note, after allies refused to open membership doors to Ukraine and Georgia, on fear of a potential conflict with Russia.

Doug Casey says, the monumental monetary crisis can be took place by deflationary, where billions and billions of dollars are wiped out through bankruptcies and defaults, and the remaining dollars become worth more as a result.

By Adrian Ash A dead, defunct currency says the world's money supply is about to unleash an awful inflation

Commodity Online NEW DELHI: Energy giant BP Plc is likely to set a co operation with Cals Ltd, a Spice Energy holding company for its proposed five million tonns oil refinery at Haldia near Kolkata.

Commodity Online NEW YORK: Steady demand from utilities and surging global demand for coal will push up prices of coal in United States, the one fossil fuel the country has in abundance.

By Adrian AshBarely a generation after the worst recession in US history, backing labor over capital like this and thereby nabbing labor's far weightier vote meant JFK got to kick Richard Nixon around at the ballot box

Commodity Online Jayant Deo, former MERC Member and an expert in energy sector, speaks about various issues that are being faced by the energy sector

Warner Music has signed a deal with media site 7digital.com to offer its music without copy protection.

T-Mobile International was confirmed on Monday as the sole carrier of Nokia's new 6650 smart phone after a joint announcement from both firms at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hanover, Germany.

Facebook, the social network site that has enjoyed spectacular international growth in the past year, despite being published only in English until recently, said on Monday it was offering a German version.

The U.N. Security Council is expected to adopt a third round of sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program on Monday, but diplomats said this might be the first round that is not approved unanimously.

Online auction leader eBay Inc warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty getting former customers to return, adding to the normal challenge of attracting new users to its sites.

Oil fell more than $1 to stand under $102 a barrel on Friday, stepping back from a record high reached due to supply disruptions and as a weak dollar encouraged investors to buy commodities.

The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote this weekend on a resolution imposing a third round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Western ambassadors said on Thursday. We thought it was perfectly reasonable to (finalize the resolution) tomorrow and to vote on this important issue on Saturday, said U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

The European Commission opened in-depth investigations on Wednesday to determine if billions of euros in German government assistance to two banks, hit by the U.S. sub-prime market crisis, amounted to illegal state aid.

Major powers are looking for new ways to draw Iran into negotiations over its nuclear program while simultaneously pushing for more U.N. sanctions, U.S. officials and diplomats said on Tuesday. Political directors from the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council -- Russia, China, the United States, Britain and France -- as well as Germany, met in Washington on Monday to discuss how to tweak their Iran strategy.

Crude oil rose on Monday after Iran warned Western powers against further U.N. sanctions and amid concerns that Turkish attacks in Iraq may damage oil supplies.