Without a willingness to lug cheap flat-pack wardrobes home and wrestle with self-assembly, there would be no IKEA, but in Asia, where the locals have other ideas, the Swedish furniture giant thinks
Hackers attacked the websites of the Czech central bank, several top commercial banks and the Prague Stock Exchange on Wednesday, slowing or shutting down online services in the latest in a series
Falling investment and consumers' reluctance to spend even at Christmas were behind the euro zone's slide deep into recession in the last three months of 2012, according to a second official estimate
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has given his strongest hint yet that he might make a comeback bid in 2017, telling a magazine a sense of duty to fix the economy might
The European Union fined Microsoft Corp 561 million euros ($731 million) on Wednesday for failing to offer users a choice of web browser, an unprecedented sanction that will act as a warning
Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would cut 2,500 UK jobs and close 195 stores in Britain as the euro crisis, high fuel costs and unrest in key destinations like Egypt and
In the gloom of Europe's bottomless auto slump shines a relative bright spot, the mini-SUV – and beleaguered mass-market carmakers are piling in like excited joyriders. PSA Peugeot Citroen, Ford and Renault
European stock markets rose to their highest since the 2008 financial crisis on Wednesday, helped by signs the U.S. economy is improving and expectations of more pledges of support for growth from
Hong Kong and China shares posted solid gains on Wednesday, with the Chinese financial and telecom sectors strong as investors cheered comments made by policymakers at the country's annual parliamentary meetings. ZTE
Several top Czech bank websites came under hacker attack on Wednesday, shutting down their internet banking and other online services. The online banking websites of Erste Group Bank's Ceska Sporitelna, KBC's CSOB
