Brazil’s key 2012 budget goal in doubt

Brazil is in danger of narrowly missing its most closely watched government budget goal this year, three officials have told Reuters. This may be another sign that a long stretch of economic

IMF Managing Director to visit Cyprus

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, will visit Cyprus at the invitation of the Eurogroup Chairman Jean Claude Juncker to attend the informal EU Finance Ministers’ meeting, which Nicosia

Istanbul blast caused by suicide bomber

An explosion at a police station in a suburb of Turkey's largest city Istanbul on Tuesday was caused by a suicide bomber, Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin said. "First (the attacker) threw