About 2.5 million people a day are fighting to get their hands on Olympic tickets with pressure on the ticketing Web site running right through the night, organisers said. Demand appears to
India plans to send a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining a small group of nations already exploring the red planet. A rocket will blast off from
Heineken won control on Friday of the Asian brewing group which makes Tiger beer when Singapore's Fraser and Neave (F&N) agreed to sell its stake in the firm for over $4 billion.
Growth of registered unemployment accelerated again in July, after a slowdown in June, according to the latest figures from the Statistical Service. The number of registered unemployed reached 36,452 in July, marking
It was a brazen, complex attack worthy of Iraq's al Qaeda at its peak. Two bombs minutes apart killed, maimed and distracted while a team of suicide attackers blasted into a Baghdad
State-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland said on Friday it has dismissed employees over an interest rate rigging scandal, but gave no indication of whether it would reach a settlement soon with investigating
A long-expected Syrian army onslaught to drive rebel forces out of Aleppo is imminent, following a military build-up around the country's biggest city, a senior United Nations official said. President Bashar al-Assad's
The Jungfrau Railway, near Interlanken, Switzerland, was one hundred years old on August 1. To celebrate the centenary, 48 flares were lit on the north walls of the Eiger and Monch showing
Britain's top share index rose on Friday, closing in on recent three-month highs, as markets recovered their appetite for risk ahead of the U.S. non-farm payrolls release, which could open the door
After days of controversy and hours of negotiation over whether she could compete in an Islamic headscarf, Saudi Arabia's first female athlete to appear at the Olympic Games bowed out on Friday
