Sharply divided by partisan bickering, President Barack Obama and top Republicans face growing doubts on Thursday about the prospects for reaching a deal to avoid a potentially disastrous U.S. debt default. With
Australia's government may review media laws in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British paper the News of the World, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday, as
A painting sold for as little as 45 pounds ($70) in the 1950s but since hailed as a lost masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci and now worth millions is to go on
AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.
Turkish relations with the European Union "will freeze" if Cyprus takes over the EU presidency in July 2012 without a solution to the divided island, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Ahmet
EasyJet's largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, wants to force a shareholder vote over the airline's plans to by new aircraft from Airbus, resuming a long-running dispute with the company he founded. In January,
Marks & Spencer bucked the gloom in Britain's retail sector, meeting forecasts with a seventh consecutive quarterly rise in underlying sales as its older and more affluent customers coped better with a
Asian equities, metals and commodity currencies rallied on Wednesday as investors piled into risky assets after China's economic growth data reassured markets that the world's second-largest economy was maintaining its growth momentum.
Cyprus attempted several times to offload a dangerous cargo of confiscated Iranian munitions before it blew up killing 12 people in the island's worst peacetime disaster, the government said on Tuesday. Attempting
Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan, was shot dead on Tuesday, apparently by one of his bodyguards, officials
