Plastic card spending in Cyprus soared again in February but mainly as a result of road tax payments. According to the latest figures from the credit card company, JCC Payment Systems Ltd,
Those of you who read the weekend edition of the Financial Times will be familiar with the regular feature called “Lunch with the FT”, in which they invite a famous man or
Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that charged across its northeast rose to more than
The following is a roundup of the effect on manufacturers, energy firms and other companies of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast of Japan. NUCLEAR – The government
. A wrecked airplane lies nose-deep in splintered wood from homes in the port of Sendai. An hour's drive away, workers in white masks and protective clothing scan thousands of people for
Washington said a call by the Arab League for a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya was an “important step”, as government troops backed by tanks and warplanes fought to drive rebels from
Israel said on Sunday it would build several hundred new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank, a day after a Palestinian attack killed an Israeli couple and three of their
Bahraini riot police fired thick clouds of tear gas and pushed back protesters who blocked a main thoroughfare leading to the Bahrain Financial Harbour, a key business district in the Gulf Arab
Russians from the Bering Strait to the Baltic voted in regional elections on Sunday, the last big test for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party before December parliamentary polls and a presidential
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan slammed a European Parliament report that noted a deterioration in press freedom and women's rights in Turkey, saying it was unbalanced and written by people who did not
