Britain's service sector rebounded in January after a snow-hit December and retail sales rose unexpectedly in March, data showed on Wednesday, raising hope of a decent pick-up in first-quarter GDP. The pound
More than half of British women pay for themselves on a first date, even though men still want to pay, according to a survey on Monday. A poll of 1,924 adults for
Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland face a "huge image problem" over hooliganism, European soccer's governing body UEFA said on Wednesday. The criticism, from Martin Kallen, UEFA's director of the championship Poland will stage
Cyprus ranks first amongst EU member states in the number of asylum applicants per million inhabitants, Eurostat data show. According to data released on Tuesday, 2.875 individuals applied for asylum in 2010.
* Debts could be subordinate to EU loans * Bond yields shoot higher on downgrade Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece and Portugal on Tuesday, citing risks that the countries' debts to a
President Bashar al-Assad will on Wednesday give his first public speech since pro-democracy protests in which more than 60 people have been killed erupted in southern Syria and swept through the country.
Japan upgraded its safety standards for nuclear power plants on Wednesday, the first official acknowledgement that norms were insufficient when an earthquake wrecked one of its facilities, triggering the world's worst atomic
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the government of Belarus' foreign and local currency bond ratings from B1 to B2 and has assigned a negative outlook to the ratings due to the country’s
President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu will meet on Wednesday morning in the framework of the UN-backed direct negotiations for a solution to the
Global stocks rebounded on Tuesday from early losses tied to Japan's struggle to contain the world's worst nuclear crisis in decades, while the euro steadied after comments by the European Central Bank's
