Wall Street falls as Dow Chemical tumbles

Stocks extended declines on Monday as the collapse of a joint venture between Kuwait and Dow Chemical threatened to unravel one of the large merger deals of the year and overshadowed gains

Websites could get cinema-style ratings

The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain's minister for culture

Russia’s rouble policy carries risks

By Christian Lowe Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's determination not to slash the rouble's value comes at a price: it could send the spluttering economy even faster into recession, fuelling the public