"Toy Story 3" won the Oscar for best animated feature on Sunday, becoming the fourth Pixar release to win the category in as many years. In perhaps the least surprising result at
Britain's Colin Firth won his first Oscar on Sunday for playing a stammering monarch in "The King's Speech", crowning a virtual clean sweep of the movie awards season. The best actor victory
Japan's Nikkei average ended higher on Monday, reversing early losses with help from futures-led buying by commodity trading advisers and month-end window dressing by foreign investors who picked up blue-chip cyclical shares.
France will send two planes full of medical aid to the Libyan city of Benghazi, held by opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, marking the start of a humanitarian operation, Prime Minister Francois Fillon
Possible natural gas reserves located in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) should be incorporated in the initial planning for the use of natural gas for electricity generation, said the Electricity Authority of
All Cypriots who have, to date, expressed their wish to leave Libya have done so, Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou said on Sunday. In a statement Kyprianou stated that on Saturday evening 11
— Losses reduced in Greece — Hellenic Bank Group announced generally satisfactory results on Friday, with profits reduced to a third, marginal increase in expenses and a steady net income for the
Equity markets rallied after a week-long selloff, and crude oil prices edged higher on Friday but were down from peaks earlier in the week on supply fears sparked by the uprising in
The London Stock Exchange's top trading rivals failed to capitalise on the UK exchange's four-hour crash on Friday as trading slowed across the market after the LSE's second trading glitch in a
Cyprus Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou has said that any sanctions against Libya must be targeted so as not to harm the people of Libya. Speaking after a meeting he had on Friday
