World shares were testing a five-year high on Monday as a strengthening of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's grip on power in weekend elections were seen as a boost for his radical
– Kate taken to west London hospital before 6 a.m. – Baby will be third-in-line to throne – Sex of baby unknown to parents Prince William's wife Kate has
The death toll from a 6.6 magnitude earthquake in China's western Gansu province on Monday more than doubled to 54 people, the municipal government said, with hundreds injured as many homes in
The Troika’s mission to Cyprus reviews the implementation of the economic adjustment programme, Simon O’ Connor, the Spokesman of EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Olli Rehn, told CNA. Asked about
Finance Minister Harris Georgiades is meeting anew this morning in Nicosia with the Heads of the Troika mission in Cyprus (European Commission, ECB, IMF), to assess the first week of the delegation’s
Japanese stocks led Asian markets higher on Monday after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's big election win over the weekend, but a rebound in the yen prompted some profit taking that knocked the
UBS said it settled a Federal Housing Finance Agency lawsuit over soured mortgage investments, taking an 865 mln Swiss franc ($919.63 mln) charge against second-quarter earnings for litigation, impairments and other provisions.
In a copy-cat case where Cyprus authorities failed to open 190 containers from Iran headed for Syria that blew up in 2011 killing 13 people, Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a
Multiple car bombings in predominantly Shi'ite districts of Baghdad killed at least 30 people on Saturday, police and medics said, the latest in a series of attacks that threaten to sink Iraq
Belgium swore in Philippe as its new king on Sunday after his father Albert II abdicated, subduing for a day questions about his ability to bring a divided country together and the
