Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao begins a three-day visit to India on Wednesday, trying to boost trade and soothe tensions between the two fastest-growing major economies in the world. Wen's visit is the
A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds on Tuesday for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target of U.S. fury over
Fancy new features like 3D screens and Internet connectivity have failed to inspire U.S. television shoppers, dashing a hoped-for recovery in the global consumer electronics industry. TV manufacturers such as Sony Corp,
Protesters set fire to cars, threw paint and smoke bombs at the Italian parliament and clashed with riot police on Tuesday in Rome's worst violence for years after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
The airline industry body IATA unveiled a plan on Tuesday to replace lengthy and sometimes intrusive passenger security checks at airports with a new system aimed at finding "bad people, not bad
A total of 26 flights to and from airports in Cyprus will be affected by Wednesday`s 24-hour strike in Greece, in which air traffic controllers are participating. Adamos Aspris, spokesman for Hermes
. Key heavyweight lenders in Spain, Italy and Greece are due a share price revival after being oversold when they were tarred by the same brush as sovereign debt issued by those
Richard Holbrooke, the veteran U.S. diplomat who negotiated the 1995 accord that ended the Balkans war and was U.S. President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, died on Monday at
S.Korean inventor offers men virtual love on iPhone Stressed out South Korean men without time to date can now at least pretend they have a girlfriend, albeit on their smart phone. Launched
In 2008 the number of Cypriots living at the risk of poverty stood at 128.000 people or 16,2% of the population. At the same time, 64.000 people or 8,2% of the population
