* Aims for balanced budget by 2016/17 * * Royal Mail pension assets to help 2012/13 deficit * * Growth may nudge higher, Queen's Jubilee to weigh * British government borrowing next
Following is a selection of measures discussed ahead of Chancellor George Osborne's annual budget statement to parliament: 50 PENCE TAX RATE Osborne has been facing growing calls from within his own Conservative
BY MICHELE KAMBAS Athanasios Orphanides' days at the European Central Bank appeared numbered on Friday after he lost his only ally in a hostile government that will decide by April 30 if
A major 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles east of Acapulco on Mexico's Pacific coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday. The USGS located the epicenter of the quake at
Whether or not money can buy happiness, people worldwide seem to think it can, at least according to a new poll that canvassed respondents in two dozen countries. Nearly two-thirds of about
The Italian government on Tuesday called a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament to speed the final passage of measures to deregulate the service sector that Prime Minister Mario Monti
** Public sector grows as percent of employment ** The number of civil servants rose in 2011 according to the latest data from the Statistical Service, despite a former finance minister’s declarations to
Cyprus and Greece have submitted a joint proposal for a new Convention which would safeguard the integrity of sport. The proposal was tabled during a Council of Europe (CoE) Sports Ministers’ Conference
Lionel Messi needs one goal to equal the Barcelona scoring record after Cesar Rodriguez's total was revised to 232 from 235, the La Liga club said. Barca's Documentation and Studies Centre and
Mario Monti will walk into a meeting with Italy's trade union bosses on Tuesday, knowing it can help make, or break, his brief tenure as prime minister and his attempts to drag
