Media conglomerate Vivendi, the Paris-based parent of Universal Music Group, officially sought approval from the European Union to purchase London-based EMI Group's recorded-music business, the European Commission announced Monday on its website.
Glenn Mangham, a 26-year-old software development student from Cornlands Road, York in Great Britain, was sentenced to eight months in jail after he admitted hacking into Facebook from his bedroom in his parents' house between April and May 2011.
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Crude oil prices jumped in European trade Monday after Iran said it halted oil exports to the UK and France in reply to the European Union's economic sanctions over its disputed nuclear program.
Asian stock markets made gains on Monday as policy easing by China and expectations of a final sign-off of the second bailout package for Greece buoyed investor sentiment.
Police and regime militia patrols fanned out in Damascus' Mezze district Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on the capital, opposition activists said.
Police and militia patrols fanned out in the Syrian capital's Mezze district on Sunday to prevent a repeat of protests against President Bashar al-Assad that have threatened his grip on Damascus, opposition activists said.
Just hours after wrapping up her work in New York, Victoria Beckham was seen boarding a plane back to her homeland, Landon, to launch her collection for London fashion week.
The 2012 London Fashion Week kicked off Friday, Feb.17, with opening line-ups from previous year's Fashion Fringe prize winner, Israeli-born designers Golan Frydman and Latvian Fyodor Podgorny, and their bold see-through ensembles, alien-inspired green glittery skin, tribal nose rings, piercings, and innovative hair-dos.
The feel-good Civil Rights drama is almost sure to pick up an acting trophy, but a Best Picture Oscar is a long shot
British Fashion Council Chairman Harold Tillman said on Friday that Britain should be doing more to encourage Chinese shoppers to visit, and more importantly shop in, the capital.
China’s Vice President Xi Jinping, on the last day of a much-ballyhooed five-day trip through the United States, said the Chinese economy will avoid a “hard landing” this year and maintain stable growth.
Shares of Google appeared to brush off reports a Stanford University study had found it had compromised the privacy of Apple iPhone customers.
Guus Hiddink has been named as the new manager of big-spending Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala.
Some European leaders have expressed optimism that the next round of rescue financing for debt-scarred Greece will be approved by Eurozone finance ministers at a crucial meeting in Brussels on Monday.
France and England signed a new nuclear-energy pact on Friday that will lead to the construction of more nuclear power plants in the United Kingdom, with more than 500 million pounds sterling ($791 million) of private-sector investment.
Electronic Arts plans to launch copies of Mass Effect 3 into space using weather balloons, which will be released in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, London, Berlin, and Paris.
Adele has certainly come a far way since living in a modest apartment in South London above a bargain shop with her mother. The six-time Grammy winner has just rented a £7million, £15,000-a-month mansion in West Sussex.
There's a reason why Robert Pattinson is a three time MTV Movie Award Best Kiss winner and it's not his acting. According to Christina Ricci, his costar in the raunchy new drama, 'Bel Ami', R-Patz is quite the lip-locker.
Mystery shrouds over the real name and birthplace of legendary comedy film star Charlie Chaplin even 34 years after his death.
Charlie Chaplin, the iconic British actor with the toothbrush mustache, may have died in 1977, but it's actually his birth which is still a mystery. What led British Intelligence to conduct such an extensive and ultimately unsuccessful investigation into the comedian? FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover demanded that the MI5 open a file on Charlie Chaplin in 1952 because he believed the actor had communist links. The goal of the FBI was to have Chaplin banned from the United States.
Monica Lewinsky is back in the spotlight 14- years after she first made headlines for her affair with Bill Clinton. She is now the core focus of a highly anticipated four-hour PBS documentary about the former U.S President.
