Europe toned down a clash with the United States over 2020 climate goals on the final day of U.N. talks in Bali on Friday, raising hopes of a deal to start negotiations on a new global warming treaty.
Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it has acquired Multimap, one of Britain's top online mapping companies, for an undisclosed sum in attempt to offer better targeted advertising.
Corp. on Wednesday completed the acquisition of Multimap, one of U.K.'s top online mapping companies at undisclosed amount, in a move to boost its advertising business.
Close to one billion people will never receive a formal education because governments around the world are not living up to pledges to provide free primary schooling for all by 2015, aid groups said on Wednesday.
Forty people were killed and more than 125 wounded when three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Shi'ite city of Amara in southern Iraq on Wednesday, police said.
BHP Billiton Plc/Ltd said on Wednesday it was considering possible next moves in its attempt to open takeover talks with rival mining house Rio Tinto, which has so far rebuffed its overtures.
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has told the Treasury Select Committee of MP’s that it expected the troubled mortgage lender, Northern Rock, to release a trading update this month before the end of its financial year.
The Brits, an annual showcase of the UK recording industry, announced on Tuesday that the 2008 lifetime achievement award is being given to Paul McCartney.
Web search site Ask.com is launching a feature that allows users to delete data on their search queries in an effort to bolster personal privacy while surfing the Internet.
Lloyds TSB said its underlying profits are on track to grow 11 percent this year but the British bank will take a 200 million pound ($405 million) hit from exposure to credit market problems.
The global real estate market needed the subprime crisis to avoid a bigger and more damagning bubble, experts say.
Investment group Blackstone is planning a counterbid for Rio Tinto Ltd/Plc with a consortium believed to include China's sovereign wealth fund, Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper said on Monday.
Another U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut this week is a foregone conclusion as far as financial markets are concerned, but a heaping helping of global inflation data may leave a sour aftertaste. foregone conclusion as far as financial markets are concerned, but a heaping helping of global inflation data may leave a sour aftertaste. The Fed is widely expected to follow the central banks of Canada and England with a quarter-percentage-point reduction in the benchmark federal funds rate on Tuesday.
Few expected to see James Murdoch overtaking his elder brother Lachlan for their father's media empire.
Dell Inc. announced on Thursday it will begin selling PCs at more than 900 Best Buy Co. Inc. stores in an attempt to gain more of the U.S. consumer market.
Three out of four buyers of the trendy iPhone in Britain will be new O2 customers won from rival mobile networks, according to the new head of O2 which won an exclusive deal to sell the iPhone in Britain.
Britain won swift clearance from European Union regulators on Wednesday for rescue aid to support stricken mortgage lender Northern Rock, a casualty of the global credit crunch.
The British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for letting her young students name a teddy bear Mohammed is now back in her hometown in Northern England and received a welcome note from local Muslims, according to news reports.
The British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for letting her young students name a teddy bear Mohammed is now back in her hometown in Northern England and received a welcome note from local Muslims, according to news reports.
Deutsche Telekom scored a victory in a legal battle with rival Vodafone over sales conditions for the coveted Apple iPhone, which T-Mobile sells exclusively in Germany.
Gillian Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students name a teddy bear Mohammed arrived in Britain on Tuesday morning after being pardoned and said she was sorry to leave the country and never imagined this would happen, according to news reports.
World's two fastest growing economies, China and India, have earned the dubious distinction of being home to some of the biggest polluting firms across the globe, according to a list published by Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA), a product of the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for Global Development, an independent think-tank located in Washington, DC.
