The French and British Foreign ministers are both urging NATO officials to increase their activity in Libya in order destroy weaponry used by Moammar Gaddafi’s forces and to better protect civilians from Gaddafi’s violent incursions.
Moussa Koussa, the former Libyan foreign minister who defected to Britain almost two weeks ago, has flown to Qatar, according to the UK Foreign Office.
U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out a slim gain Monday but other market measures fell slightly as investors traded cautiously ahead of the first quarter corporate earnings season.
Consumer prices in Britain slowed for the first time in eight months in March, dampening expectations over interest rate hike by the Bank of England in the near term.
Chevron Corp , the second-largest U.S. oil company, sees better earnings in the first quarter than in the previous quarter as rising energy demand boosted oil prices and most refining margins.
U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out a slim gain Monday but other market measures fell slightly as investors traded cautiously ahead of the first quarter corporate earnings season.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 1.06 points, or 0.01%, at 12381.11. The Nasdaq Composite shed 8.91, or 0.32%, to 2771.51. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index slipped 3.71, or 0.28%, to 1324.46. The mixed activity came as investors looked ahead to the first-quarter earnings season, which kicked off unoffic...
Libyan defector, former foreign minister Moussa Koussa has warned British officials that civil war could turn his country into “a new Somalia.”
Teen YouTube sensation Rebecca Black sings gleefully about the weekend in her Web video hit Friday, -- and now the 13 year-old has something even more exciting to crow about.
An odd disagreement has erupted between British Prime Minister David Cameron and Oxford University and black enrollment at the prestigious university.
Rupert Murdoch's News International has asked nine people who claim their phones were hacked by the newspaper group to provide more evidence, after apologizing for the first time to eight others on Friday.
Soaring oil prices and inflation in emerging economies pose new risks to global recovery but are not yet strong enough to derail it, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
Rupert Murdoch's News International has asked nine people who claim their phones were hacked by the newspaper group to provide more evidence, after apologizing for the first time to eight others on Friday.
Intel Corp introduced a processor for tablet computers to stake out territory in the exploding mobile market dominated by Britain's ARM Holdings.
A protest by students in Damascus Syria has turned into a melee after security forces beat some of the demonstrators up and arrested several others, according to the Associated Press.
Scientists say they have moved a step closer to developing a computer model of the brain after finding a way to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time.
The growth outlook for major industrialized economies is improving with Germany and the United States leading the recovery, the OECD's leading indicator for February showed on Monday.
The UK government has announced more than £46 million (US$75.3 million) in funding to help put 542 new low carbon buses on roads across England by March 2012, the UK government said in a statement.
Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.1 to 0.3 percent.
Britain and the Netherlands plan to sue Iceland in a potentially drawn-out legal battle to recover $5 billion lost in a bank crash after Icelandic voters rejected a plan to repay the money.
Britain's top banks should shield their retail operations from riskier investment banking activities and hold more capital to protect taxpayers in the event of another financial crisis, a report said.
Worldwide military spending edged up in 2010 to a record $1.6 trillion, a leading think-tank said on Monday.
Backing money with gold isn't the problem for the legion of policy-makers and economists running the official monetary system. Raising interest rates is.
