New Yorkers eating out more, Zagat survey finds Michelin handed out a record number of its coveted stars to restaurants in New York City, where reviewers said diverse cuisine, excellent food and
Three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp are lobbying the board to press for Bill Gates to step down as chairman of the software company he co-founded 38 years ago,
European Central Bank policymakers meeting on Wednesday are likely to hold off policy action for now but keep open the options of an interest rate cut or a bumper cash injection should
Senior party figures in Silvio Berlusconi's fractious centre-right movement urged Italian lawmakers on Tuesday to defy the billionaire media tycoon and back Prime Minister Enrico Letta in a confidence motion expected on
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday will cast a national election in 2015 as a choice between his "pro-business" ruling Conservative party and what he calls its anti-business socialist rivals. In
– Obama and Senate reject plan, call for full funding – Dispute raises concerns over looming debt limit deadline – Financial markets mostly relaxed so far President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans
One in eight people around the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, warning world leaders that some regions would fail in halving the number of hungry
U.S. stock futures and the dollar came under pressure on Monday as a shutdown of the U.S. government seemed ever more likely, while the euro had political troubles of its own as
Greece has nominated a new chairman for its privatisation agency HRADF a month after his predecessor was dismissed, the finance ministry said on Saturday. Constantine Maniatopoulos was chosen to lead an organisation
Greece's biggest oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum has offered a voluntary redundancy scheme (VRS) to as many as 300 employees, or almost 8 percent of its total workforce, to cut costs, two company
