The fall in seasonally adjusted unemployment experienced in August was unfortunately shortlived, and resumed its rise in September as the number of registered unemployed increased to 38,253 from 36,967 in the previous month. In actual terms and compared with September 2011, unemployment rose by 7,383 persons or 27.9% to 33,866. The main increases were in
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Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory. It was the fifth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against incoming bombardment from northern Syria,
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Liam Neeson thriller "Taken 2" captured the No. 1 spot on movie box office charts over the weekend with a brawny $50 million take from theaters in the United States and Canada. "Taken 2" stars Neeson as a former CIA agent kidnapped during a vacation in Istanbul. The movie added $55 million from some 50
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Shopping in a U.S. department store? Surveillance cameras may be watching, and not because you might be a shoplifter. In minutes, video of which aisles you visited, what products you picked up and put down, what you bought and the displays that caught your fancy will be sent to a company in Bangalore, India. "These
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Debate about the idea of creating a separate budget for euro zone countries is intensifying in the run-up to an EU summit later this month, with less opposition to the proposal than many officials first expected, diplomats say. At a private dinner held last week among the EU ambassadors of several northern European countries, including
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Consumer price inflation measured on a national basis eased slightly in September to 2.5%, from 2.7% in August, thanks to year on year falls in retail prices such as clothing and furniture, as well as a slower increase in prices of the heavily weighted categories of food, and housing water, electricity and gas. Compared with
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday threatened to scupper European Union budget talks unless other members of the 27-nation bloc agree to "proper control" of spending, without specifying what would be an acceptable settlement for Britain. Cameron also lent his support to a proposal for two EU budgets, one for the euro zone and
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Greeks she wants to keep their country in the euro when she visits Athens this week, but she faces a hostile reception from a people worn down by years of austerity and recession. Many Greeks blame Merkel, who has publicly chastised them for much of the past three years,
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Mitt Romney appeared on Sunday to have halted his perilous slide in the polls and is back to running a close race with President Barack Obama as he prepares a new assault on the Democrat over foreign policy. A solid performance against Obama at Wednesday's first presidential debate in Denver has helped the Republican challenger
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Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday and blew the Formula One championship wide open with five races remaining after Ferrari's Fernando Alonso spun out at the start. Alonso's pre-race lead over reigning champion Vettel, chalking up his second win in a row and third of the season, was cut to
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