Greece's prime minister expelled dissident member of parliament Petros Tatoulis from the ruling New Democracy party on Monday, cutting his government majority to the minimum 151 seats in the 300-member national parliament.
President of the House of Representatives Marios Karoyian leaves for Armenia on Tuesday on a two-day official visit, at the invitation of the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of
Mounting economic gloom swept through Japan and several emerging nations on Monday and European banks bore the scars of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Rating agency Fitch cut Romania's credit
There is no doubt that China's near-$600 billion economic stimulus package is gigantic but, like so much in the opaque country, it is shrouded in ambiguities that complicate any assessment of its
British mutual lender Nationwide reported an 18 percent drop in its half-year profit, and said funding arrangements for the UK depositor protection scheme should be changed so that risk-averse banks contribute less.
British factory costs fell at a record 5.6 percent in October as oil prices fell by nearly a fifth, official statistics showed on Monday, in a sign that inflationary pressures are rapidly
Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings said its profit in the third quarter was ahead of a year earlier as growth in Asia helped offset almost $5 billion in bad debts on U.S.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou has said he would like to see more progress in the direct negotiations between President of the Republic Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Friday he would not serve as technology czar in Barack Obama's administration if he was asked. "I love working at Google and I'm very happy
Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. The MP3 players themselves posed no threat to pacemakers
