Australia's government may review media laws in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British paper the News of the World, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday, as
AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday.
EasyJet's largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, wants to force a shareholder vote over the airline's plans to by new aircraft from Airbus, resuming a long-running dispute with the company he founded. In January,
Marks & Spencer bucked the gloom in Britain's retail sector, meeting forecasts with a seventh consecutive quarterly rise in underlying sales as its older and more affluent customers coped better with a
Asian equities, metals and commodity currencies rallied on Wednesday as investors piled into risky assets after China's economic growth data reassured markets that the world's second-largest economy was maintaining its growth momentum.
Euro zone finance ministers promised cheaper loans, longer maturities and a more flexible rescue fund to help Greece and other EU debtors in a bid to stop financial contagion engulfing Italy and
President Barack Obama pushed congressional leaders for the largest possible deficit-reduction deal on Monday that would involve changes to popular entitlement programs, asking: "If not now, when?" Obama told a White House
European shares fell to a two-week closing low on Monday, with peripheral stocks heavily sold-off on escalating worries about the threat of contagion from the euro zone debt crisis which could force
A deeper-than-expected recession caused Greece's central government deficit to widen by almost one third in the first half of the year, widely missing an interim budget target under the country's bailout plan,
EU finance officials will discuss a range of options for Greece's intractable debt crisis on Monday, galvanised by the growing threat of contagion to Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy. A senior
