About 2.5 million people a day are fighting to get their hands on Olympic tickets with pressure on the ticketing Web site running right through the night, organisers said. Demand appears to have been boosted by Team GB's strong performance in the medals table and the start of the track and field events in the
More
India plans to send a satellite via an unmanned spacecraft to orbit Mars next year, joining a small group of nations already exploring the red planet. A rocket will blast off from the southeastern coast of India, dropping the satellite into deep space, which will then travel onto Mars to achieve orbit, the senior scientist
More
Heineken won control on Friday of the Asian brewing group which makes Tiger beer when Singapore's Fraser and Neave (F&N) agreed to sell its stake in the firm for over $4 billion. Heineken raised its bid to secure the deal over the prized Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) which will lift the Dutch group's Asian profits
More
Growth of registered unemployment accelerated again in July, after a slowdown in June, according to the latest figures from the Statistical Service. The number of registered unemployed reached 36,452 in July, marking an increase of 33.5% compared with the year earlier in July, after an increase of 26.2% in June and 31.1% in May. The
More
It was a brazen, complex attack worthy of Iraq's al Qaeda at its peak. Two bombs minutes apart killed, maimed and distracted while a team of suicide attackers blasted into a Baghdad police base to try to free jailed insurgents. Tuesday's high-profile assault on a anti-terrorism police unit in Baghdad was the latest in a
More
State-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland said on Friday it has dismissed employees over an interest rate rigging scandal, but gave no indication of whether it would reach a settlement soon with investigating authorities. Reporting a drop in first-half operating profit, RBS said it was co-operating with governments and regulators which are investigating the role of
More
A long-expected Syrian army onslaught to drive rebel forces out of Aleppo is imminent, following a military build-up around the country's biggest city, a senior United Nations official said. President Bashar al-Assad's forces killed more than 80 people in a series of attacks across the country on Friday and late on Thursday, opposition sources said,
More
The Jungfrau Railway, near Interlanken, Switzerland, was one hundred years old on August 1. To celebrate the centenary, 48 flares were lit on the north walls of the Eiger and Monch showing the route of the historic railway through the two mountains. A hundred years ago, Italian construction workers set off a huge charge of
More
Britain's top share index rose on Friday, closing in on recent three-month highs, as markets recovered their appetite for risk ahead of the U.S. non-farm payrolls release, which could open the door for fresh central bank stimulus. Following Thursday's disappointment at the lack of action by the European Central Bank, investors focused on July's U.S.
More
After days of controversy and hours of negotiation over whether she could compete in an Islamic headscarf, Saudi Arabia's first female athlete to appear at the Olympic Games bowed out on Friday after 80 seconds. Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shaherkani, one of the two Saudi women chosen to compete at the Games, wore something akin
More