Sony Corp Chief Executive Howard Stringer brushed off concerns that the PlayStation 3 video game console is too expensive, and said the company is unlikely to sell parts of its business amid
Google Inc is declaring war on Microsoft Corp by seeking to unseat the software giant's globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers. Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web
Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday, returning home early to deal with ethnic violence that has left at least 156 dead in China's
The world needs to wake up to the scale of the downturn and stay focused on restarting growth in recession-hit economies, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Reuters on the eve of
European equities ended down for a fourth straight session on Tuesday, led lower by utilities and energy shares, as investors remained nervous ahead of earnings figures and worries about the pace of
Britain's top share index lost 0.2 percent on Tuesday as falling oil stocks, disappointing UK industrial output data and an early slide on Wall Street offset strength in miners. At the close,
Major economies tried on Tuesday to break the deadlock between rich and poor nations over 2050 goals for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a last-minute meeting before an expanded G8 summit
European Union ministers and regulators sought on Tuesday to minimise boom-and bust economic cycles by agreeing to make capital rules more flexible and ensuring banks have enough cash to ride out a
Greece's tourism industry has shed more than 19,000 jobs after arrivals at airports dropped by nearly a tenth in the first six months of the year, a trade group said on Tuesday.
Europe's highest court imposed a fine of 2 million euros along with extra daily penalties, on Greece on Tuesday for failing to recover state aid illegally granted to Olympic Airways. The case
