If living without pasta and bread, or giving up cheese and bacon make losing weight difficult, the latest diet books may provide some incentive to drop that added holiday weight. Instead of
Tiny Qatar's success in winning the right to host the 2022 soccer World Cup, arguably sport's greatest extravaganza, capped a glittering year for Asian sport which began with Olympic gold in Vancouver.
Shares in Japan and China eased on Tuesday as concerns that further Chinese monetary tightening will cool the engine of world economic growth overshadowed Japanese data that pointed to improving demand. The
The prolongation of the de facto division of Cyprus is in the interest of Turkey and not of the people of Cyprus, Government Spokesman Stephanos Stephanou said Monday. Inaugurating an exhibition of
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Dr. Angela Merkel will pay a one-day working visit to Cyprus on 11 January 2011. A spokesperson for the German Embassy in Nicosia told CNA
Chinese shares slid and European stocks followed suit on Monday as the impact of China's Christmas Day interest rate rise sunk in to thin markets. Chinese shares dropped 1.9 percent after the
Almost a quarter less shoppers turned out for Britain's traditional Boxing Day retail sales this year compared with last year, a survey by Synovate Retail Performance said on Monday. The total number
Suspected explosive packages were found at several embassies in Rome on Monday, days after parcel bombs claimed by an Italian anarchist group wounded two at the Swiss and Chilean missions. Police said
China was Grinch-like in raising interest rates on Christmas Day, but in fact investors have good reasons to be grateful. The government provided much-needed reassurance that it was determined to rein in
Hotel occupancy rates in the Athens-Attica region were absolutely disappointing in the off-season month of November compared to the same month last year. A monthly report by the Union of Athens-Attica Hoteliers
