Flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga has scored her first No. 1 album in the United States after a 99-cent promotion by Amazon.com sent the much-hyped release past the rare million-copy mark in
Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said. The perpetrators
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan offered to resign once he had dealt with the worst of the country's nuclear crisis and tsunami disaster, cutting a deal with party rebels to avert defeat
A European Central Bank policymaker said a voluntary deal for investors to keep renewing their Greek debt holdings might be acceptable, raising hopes on Wednesday for an aid agreement to prevent a
Data just released for the hotels and restaurants sector in 2009 underline how the global financial crisis took its toll on the sector in Cyprus. Value added fell in real (constant-price) terms
ICT Group, the vehicle of Russian investor Alexander Nesis, said on Wednesday that it had bought a minority stake in Piraeus Bank , whose share price has been hit hard by Greece's
Greece should complete talks by the end of the week with inspectors from the EU and IMF on a medium-term budget plan plus a vital next slice of international aid, sources close
Greece plans to merge or close a number of state entities, aiming at savings of 2.7 bln euros a year, under a plan to tackle the budget deficit, Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros
Germany cannot pay out its share of the next tranche of aid to Greece if the International Monetary Fund decides not to disburse its part, a coalition ally of German Chancellor Angela
Athens and its European creditors are about to reach an agreement on forming a privatisation agency that will work independently from the Greek government, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Wednesday. Handelsblatt, without
