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
Lufthansa Group has landed first prize in the technology category of The Airline Strategy Awards conferred by the prestigious Airline Business magazine, underlining the technical competence and power of innovation of Lufthansa
Application deadline August 16, 2013 The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation is giving each of 10 entrepreneurial teams a chance to win €10,000 for their business, dedicated to promoting trust and bi-communal teamwork in
Teens in a deprived area of east London are sparing no expense when it comes to impressing their friends for a few hours by hiring exotic cars with a price tag that
Pope Francis, moving to overcome major crises in the Holy See, on Friday set up a special commission to reform its economic and administrative departments, the Vatican said. The commission, which will
The British government unveiled what it described as the world's most generous incentives for shale gas on Friday, offering tax breaks to drive investment in a sector that has already transformed the
Britain's Stansted airport on Friday urged the government to let it expand into a four-runway hub, the latest group to put forward multi-billion-pound plans aimed at addressing London's air capacity crunch. The
