Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney and his allies raised $170.5 million in September, the campaign said on Monday, falling just short of the 2012 fundraising record set last month by Democratic rival President Barack Obama. Republicans began October with $191.2 million in cash on hand – money ready to be spent on advertising, get-out-the-vote efforts,
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Brad Pitt made his debut as the first male face of Chanel's iconic No.5 fragrance on Monday, in an ad campaign that had fans and fashionistas split on the actor's latest role. Pitt, 48, is seen with long hair and dressed casually, looking wistfully into the camera in an enigmatic black-and-white video directed by "Atonement"
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. By Dr. Andrestinos N. Papadopoulos, Ambassador a.h. Recent developments in our region have placed emphasis on the energy sector. Rightly so, because several states in the Eastern Mediterranean, including Israel and Cyprus are currently developing their offshore hydrocarbon resources. The recoverable energy resources of our region, the Levant Basin and the Nile Delta Basin
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Asian shares rose on Tuesday as investor sentiment improved thanks to an overnight rally in U.S. stocks that was fuelled by better than expected earnings from Citigroup Inc, the third-largest U.S. bank, and above forecast retail sales data. Investors held onto hopes that Spain will ask for a bailout in coming weeks to activate the
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman ruled out on Monday a further debt restructuring, or 'haircut', for Greece and said Athens must press on with tough economic reforms. "A new haircut is out of the question for the German government," spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference. Leading German economic institutes said last week that Greece could
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Greece will conclude austerity talks with its lenders to continue receiving the bailout funds it needs, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Monday, but officials said the talks would most likely not be finished by Thursday's EU summit. "Greece will soon get the next tranche. Its economy needs liquidity like a desert needs rain," Samaras
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* Americans Alvin Roth, Lloyd Shapley share honours * Prize recognises market-matching theories * Applications include college entrance, organ donation Life-saving kidney exchange programmes are just one of the practical applications of the market-matching theories for which American economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the 2012 Nobel prize for economics on Monday. Pairing up
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The Rolling Stones will perform two concerts in London and two near New York as part of their 50th anniversary celebrations, the band announced on Monday. The British group, one of rock'n'roll's most successful, will play the O2 Arena in the British capital on Nov. 25 and 29 before crossing the Atlantic to perform at
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Citigroup Inc said quarterly profit plunged on a $4.7 billion writedown of its stake in a brokerage operated by Morgan Stanley, but mortgage lending increased and capital markets results rebounded. The New York-based global bank on Monday said third-quarter net income was $468 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $3.77 billion, or $1.23
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The largest 100 U.S. public pension funds have around $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities, about $300 billion above the nearly $900 billion they reported themselves, according to a new actuarial study to be released on Monday. The pension systems reported a median funding level of 75.1 percent. The study by the actuarial firm Milliman, which
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