Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study.
French media group Vivendi's Universal Music is seeking EU regulatory approval to buy British record label EMI's recorded music unit for $1.9 billion to boost its worldwide market share, the European Commission said on its website on Monday.
The crowd also assailed the leaders of Pakistan’s and Afghanistan’s civilian governments.
Inspectors are expected to spend two days in the country, but with tensions running high between Iran and Israel, Western diplomats have played down any hopes of a major breakthrough at the meeting.
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group is set to sign on Monday a $3 billion loan it plans to use to take private its Hong Kong-listed unit, Alibaba.com, Thomson Reuters publication Basis Point reported.
Pakistan's Reko Diq, an untapped copper and gold mine of fabulous potential, was meant to be the biggest foreign investment in the country's mining sector, but it's beginning to look more like fool's gold to the companies involved.
Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Tehran on Monday for talks on the disputed nuclear program of Iran, a day after the Islamic country responded defiantly to tightened EU sanctions by halting oil sales to British and French companies.
Sudan has secured a five-year delay on its debts to China, the finance minister said on Saturday, part of efforts to make up for the loss of revenues from the oil-producing south.
Gold prices rose more than half a percent on Monday as growing optimism that European leaders will sign off on a rescue deal for Greece lifted the euro, and after China's central bank further loosened monetary policy.
Recent reports have indicated that Assad’s once-unshakable grip on power might soon crumble, with the Syrian regime running out of funds to maintain the Shabiha militia. As a consequence, the group may turn its back on the regime, thereby leading Assad to lose control on the ground. The U.S has already imposed tough sanctions on Damascus in response to the crackdown, according to reports.
For some observers, Greece can seem like a small problem in a distant land, incapable of affecting U.S. investors. But in the financial crisis era, that is most certainly not the case.
Chinese authorities keep a tight grip on the country's commodity exchanges as part of efforts to deter speculators from driving up food and resource prices.
Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.
SOPA author Lamar Smith has hit back with yet another Internet Surveillance Bill. H.R. 1981, Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 allows many other domineering attempts by the government to invade privacy and control the Internet. Here's how it intensifies threats to online privacy
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said that it has affirmed Japan's sovereign debt rating at AA- along with maintaining its negative outlook as the country faces dismal fiscal position.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials will investigate whether 'AeroShot' inhalable caffeine, which is sold in lipstick-sized canisters, is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
Iran has ceased oil exports to the UK and France in reply to European Union's decision to ban purchases of Iranian crude that were planned to begin in July.
Like drunks at a bar door, the euro zone's governments and banks are leaning unsteadily on each other for support.
Samsung Galaxy Note or the Phablet was launched only a few days back and has happily surprised smartphone lovers with its winning combination of size (of a tablet) and great features (of a smartphone).
On the fifth day of violent protests ahead of Senegalese capital Dakar's controversial presidential poll, two young men have already lost their lives, indicating a bad turn of events and intensifying demonstrations in an otherwise peaceful city. Protesters demanded on Sunday that Senegal's 85-year-old President Abdoulaye Wade step down, and were on the streets of the heart of the capital, throwing stones at police and erecting barricades.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has defended monitoring Muslim college students beyond the city limits to collect details including how many times they prayed.
In Myanmar's new war on drugs, meet the weapon of mass destruction: the weed-whacker. It has dramatically accelerated a campaign to eradicate opium poppies.
