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Suh was at first unapologetic about the stomp.

The Geneva-based fund was set up in 2002 and supported by around 150 donor countries. It works in collaboration with other organizations to promote treatment and large scale prevention programs against three chosen diseases.

Yemen's vice president on Saturday called presidential elections for Feb. 21 under a deal aimed at ending months of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh that have brought the country to the edge of civil war.

The numbers for Malta are 21.1 percent for women are obese (second highest in Europe) and 24.7 percent for men (the highest for the continent).

India's growth story is still credible and the move to open up the economy to global supermarket chains will help growth and control inflation, says RBI Governor Duvvuri Subbarao.

List of the 10 most loathed footballers of the year.

A Japanese government panel will propose mandatory appointments of outside directors on boards of large firms in the hope of averting the kind of accounting scandal that has engulfed Olympus Corp.

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was appointed trustee in the MF Global Holdings Ltd. bankruptcy case on Friday, days after he was hired to lead an independent probe into a sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University.

Exchange operator CME Group Inc. fined Infinium Capital Management, a high-frequency trading firm with offices in Chicago, London, and New York, a total of $850,000 for three separate computer malfunctions that rattled futures markets in 2009 and 2010.

With a minimal 2 per cent increase in established businesses and a persistent rate of opportunity-driven ventures, the entrepreneurial scenario of the United States was still healthier than rest of the world in 2010.

The British ex-CEO of Japan's Olympus Corp emerged from a frosty meeting of directors on Friday convinced its board would eventually quit over an accounting scandal engulfing the firm, but he said he wasn't begging to return and clean up the mess.

Russian anchor Tatiana Limanova said she was leaving the Ren TV news channel after she was taken off the air following an indecent gesture in a live newscast.

There's no avoiding a ballot showdown over paring public employee pensions in California's third-largest city, its mayor said on Wednesday.

Three executives of Japan's Olympus Corp resigned on Thursday ahead of a boardroom showdown with ousted CEO Michael Woodford, as the British whistleblower said he would not be surprised if some criminality were involved in the scandal engulfing the once-venerable firm.

Alibaba.com, China's largest e-commerce firm, posted an 11.9 percent rise in quarterly net profit, its slowest growth in nearly two years, with the company raising concerns due to a weak trade outlook stemming from debt woes in Europe and the United States.

Tata Sons Ltd, the $77.4 billion group, has announced that board member Cyrus P Mistry will succeed Ratan Tata as Chairman. In August 2010, the group formed a selection committee that included Cyrus to look for Ratan Tata's successor.

The Austrian banking system is on fire: getting singed not only by the heat of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, but also by the immolation of an Eastern European asset bubble the banks had been underwriting for a decade. Stumbling, contradictory guidance from the management of several banks has not helped either. And a stalling Austrian economy is only likely to make things worse

Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, may be preparing for a renewed bid for troubled search engine Yahoo. Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo was rejected in 2008.

Johannesburg stocks fell to their lowest close in a month on Wednesday, as weak Chinese factory data sparked concerns about demand from the world's second-largest economy, hitting miner Assore and luxury good maker Richemont.

The world's largest backer of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria said on Wednesday it was cutting new grants for countries battling the diseases and bringing in a new manager to ensure better administration.

A Qantas Airlines Twitter competition could be the greatest PR failure in Australian history.