Star Alliance partners Continental Airlinesand Greek carrier Aegean said on Monday they started codesharing on flights between New York and Athens. Pending government approval, Aegean will also codeshare on Continental flights from
World stocks rose from last week's one-month low on Monday as a slew of corporate takeover activity and an encouraging euro zone business survey helped ease concerns about a global economic slowdown.
A man who took hostages in a bank robbery in Athens' port of Piraeus on Monday released some of them but still held four captive, police said. The bank robber fired shots
The worst floods in decades could knock down Pakistan's economic growth for fiscal 2010/11 to between zero and 2%, Pakistani officials said on Monday, fuelling concern about the country's stability. The Asian
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Bahrain's local and foreign currency government bond ratings to A3 from A2, with a stable outlook, due to a gradual but significant rise in the breakeven oil
Cypriots living abroad have returned home for a five-day conference to discuss the latest developments in the Cyprus problem and be briefed on the issue by the island’s political and religious leadership.
Cyprus tennis star Marcos Baghdatis lost 2-0 set to Roger Federer, seeded second, in the semifinals of the Cincinnati Masters Tournament on Saturday and is out of the games with 360 points,
European shares rose on Monday, with miners up on hopes that the election results in Australia would end plans for a new mining tax, while Old Mutual gained after HSBC said it
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa discussed the yen and agreed to work closely in a phone conversation on Monday, but Kan did not ask the
German Bund futures opened lower on Monday as investors booked profits after last week's record highs and turned wary ahead of euro zone Purchasing Managers' Index data and Belgian debt supply this
