MEXICO

Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers fanned out across Mexico's bloodiest drug war city on Tuesday, trying to prevent a collapse in law and order just south of the U.S. border.

The global economic downturn will be considerably deeper than even the International Monetary Fund forecast a month ago, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's chief economist Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel told Reuters.

The global economic downturn will be considerably deeper than even the International Monetary Fund forecast a month ago, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's chief economist Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel told Reuters.

When it comes to money, women really are more responsible then men, with an international survey finding that they're less likely to get into debt and strive harder to become financially independent.

Motorola Inc (MOT.N) sees industry cellphone sales increasing in the mid-single-digit percentage range next year and in 2011, driven by first time buyers in emerging markets and upgrades to new models by existing users.

Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police.

Citigroup Inc is closing in on an agreement to boost the U.S. government's stake in it to as much as 40 percent, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website, citing people familiar with the situation.

The threat of protectionism just won't lie down, despite repeated promises of political leaders to refrain from raising barriers to trade.

Top Mexican broadcaster Televisa is seen posting an 11 percent fall in net profit during the fourth quarter of 2008, hit by higher tax reserves and a steep fall in the value of the peso currency.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of an $8 billion fraud that spooked investors around the world, was served with the formal complaint on Thursday by FBI agents in Virginia.

a brokerage house and a fiduciary firm. We will intervene to protect the interests of investors, Santiago Noboa, the state regulator of the stock exchange in Quito, told Reuters. Mexico's banking regulator said it was investigating the local Stanford bank affiliate for possible violation of banking laws. Peru's securities regulator suspended the operations of a local Stanford unit. PREVI...

a brokerage house and a fiduciary firm. We will intervene to protect the interests of investors, Santiago Noboa, the state regulator of the stock exchange in Quito, told Reuters. Mexico's banking regulator said it was investigating the local Stanford bank affiliate for possible violation of banking laws. Peru's securities regulator suspended the operations of a local Stanford unit. PREVI...

U.S., Latin American and European investigators widened probes on Thursday into the far-flung financial empire of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, accused of massive fraud, and Venezuela seized one of his banks.

Barack Obama will seek to quell Canadian concerns about U.S. protectionism when he makes his first foreign trip as president on Thursday to the United States' biggest trading partner and energy supplier.

People scrambled on Wednesday to get back their money from firms linked to Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, as fallout from U.S. fraud charges against him spread from the United States and the Caribbean to Latin America and Europe.

Trade, energy and the global economic crisis will top the agenda of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Canada on Thursday, his first foreign trip since taking over the White House last month.

TOKYO - Japan sank deeper into recession with its worst quarterly contraction since the oil crisis in the 1970s, its reliance on exports and soft domestic demand dragging down the world's second-largest economy. Hillary Clinton, in Tokyo on her first trip abroad as U.S. secretary of state, said Asia and the United States must fight the global crisis together. The U.S.-Japanese relationship was...

Put down the milk chocolate: When traveling, sample candies made with salt, chili, and mung beans. When Americans eat ...

The Riviera Maya is as idyllic and exotic as it sounds. Nestled on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, this region characterized by powdery white sand beaches, turquoise waters of the Caribbean Sea and lush....

Olivia Newton-John's ex-boyfriend, Patrick McDermott faked his death, when he disappeared during a fishing trip off the California coast in June of 2005.

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