Brent crude held near $109 on Tuesday on cautious optimism that European banks may avert a financial crisis after leaders promised a plan to resolve the region's debt woes while a strike
Workers at state-owned Greek companies including oil refiners, power utilities, ports and water operators plan to walk off the job on Oct. 18 to fight planned pay cuts that are part of
Asian shares rose on Tuesday after China moved to support its stock market by buying shares of major banks, and the euro held the previous session's big gains on hopes that European
Four years ago, Senator Claire McCaskill was one of Barack Obama's biggest boosters in his presidential campaign. But when he recently visited her state of Missouri, she did not have time to
Hong Kong shares rallied on Tuesday with financials leading the charge a day after China stepped in to prop up beaten down prices on mainland markets in a move widely seen as
Germany and France have begun working on a joint package to stem the euro zone debt crisis, but it will not be a "miracle cure" for the bloc's ills, Chancellor Angela Merkel's
The European Tourism Forum of 2012 is to take place in Cyprus during the Cyprus EU Presidency in the 2nd half of 2012, according to a Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) press release
A meeting of European Union leaders due to take place on October 17 is likely to be postponed, EU sources said on Monday, with ongoing uncertainty over how Europe will shore up
Two Americans, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, won the 2011 Nobel economics prize on Monday. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded 42 times
Greece's debt crisis is hitting the health of the nation hard, with the number of suicides increasing, more people turning to drugs and prostitution and rapidly rising rates of HIV infections, researchers
