Cypriot Eleni Artymata has qualified for the second round of the 200m at the Beijing Olympic Games on Tuesday with 23.58, her best time this year. Artimata ranked fourth with Ferguson- Mckenzie
Bankers for Bradford & Bingley have been left to sell over 70% of its 400 mln pound cash call, the UK lender said, as it hired the former head of rival Alliance
Britain's leading share index traded flat on Monday as negative data dragged on housebuilders, while BHP Billiton's results buoyed miners. At 0736 GMT the FTSE 100 was down 3.7 points, or 0.1%
LONDON (Reuters) – European shares fell early on Monday as investors sold heavyweight banks and defensive drugmakers to return to the recently battered mining sector amid a weaker dollar, while oil shares
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar slipped on Monday, easing from a six-month high against the euro as gold and oil prices rose, but slowing demand for commodities was widely seen
Spending on online ads overtook advertising on mainstream TV in Britain last year, growing 40 percent to 2.8 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) and accounting for 19 percent of all advertising, UK regulator
An Infineon chip could be at the root of complaints from around the world that Apple Inc's new iPhone drops calls and has unpredictable Internet links, according to a research report from
Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 beat Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 in Japan weekly sales for the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a recent Xbox 360 title produced by Namco
U.S. consumer prices climbed at twice the rate expected in July and job prospects kept softening last week, according to Labor Department reports on Thursday that pointed to swelling economic stress. The
The value of existing U.S. single-family homes in metro areas fell 7.6% in the second quarter compared with the same period in 2007 with homes in the West tumbling 17.4%, the National
