Organisers will hope for fuller stadiums and drier weather to keep up the momentum of the London Olympics on Monday as some of swimming's great names slug it out in a heavyweight men's freestyle clash. Sports fans from all over Britain, who had been charmed by the Olympic publicity offensive but let down by a

Bad decision-making was the main reason for a violent environmental protest in eastern China at the weekend, a state newspaper said in an unusually mild reproach stance after thousands of residents ransacked offices and overturned cars. Chinese officials cancelled an industrial waste pipeline project on Saturday after the violence in the city of Qidong, the

Police lost a set of keys at Wembley Stadium last week but there are no security concerns in relation to the London Olympic soccer venue, officials said on Monday. "On the morning of Tuesday, 24 July officers on the Olympic policing operation at Wembley Stadium reported that internal security keys, being used by them as

A massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India left more than 300 million people without electricity on Monday in one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade. The lights in Delhi and seven states went out about 2 a.m and had not been restored by the

Romanian President Traian Basescu survived a referendum on his impeachment on Sunday after the voter turnout fell short of the required level and derailed an effort by his opponents to oust him from office. Leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta's efforts to unseat the conservative Basescu have brought a stern dressing-down from the European Union, which

Registrations of motor vehicles dropped by 33.5% over the year earlier in June, from 24.4% in May. Registrations for the first six months of 2012 fell by 26.9% to 14,613 vehicles in January – June 2012, from 20,003 in the first six months of 2011. Registrations of private saloon cars fell by 23.3% to 10,806,

In a sign of weaker demand sales of petroleum products fell by 7.3% compared with the same period of the previous year in January to June, with almost all categories recording a decline. Sales of unleaded gasoline 98 used fell by 14.8% year on year, although the more standard 95 version was steady at a

Total deposits with Monetary and Financial Institutions in Cyprus recorded a decrease of 1.1% in June 2012, on an annual basis, reaching 70.77 billion euro, the Central Bank of Cyprus has announced. CBC released on Thursday the Monetary Financial Institutions (MFIs) loans and deposits statistics for the reference month of June 2012, which are included