Italy’s Monti calls for help on borrowing

Euro zone leaders should do more to help lower Italy's borrowing costs, the country's prime minister Mario Monti said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper on Tuesday. Monti urged Germany,

Science’s ‘most beautiful theories’

From Darwinian evolution to the idea that personality is largely shaped by chance, the favorite theories of the world's most eminent thinkers are as eclectic as science itself. Every January, John Brockman,

Cyprus retail trade slows in Oct (prov)

Retail trade growth slowed in October according to provisional data, rising by 0.2% compared with October 2010, having grown by 0.6% in September and 2.7% in August. For the first ten months