A deal that President Barack Obama struck with Republicans to extend tax cuts for nearly every working American and spur job growth moves to the U.S. House of Representatives for passage as
Poland should keep moving towards euro zone entry but there is no need to hurry, President Bronislaw Komorowski said on Wednesday as parliament debated a plan to amend the constitution to allow
Striking Greek workers grounded flights, shut down schools and paralysed public transport on Wednesday as protests against austerity measures to dig Greece out of a debt crisis culminated in a nationwide walkout.
A downbeat assessment of the U.S. recovery from the Federal Reserve weighed on global equities on Wednesday while European shares and the euro came under pressure from a threat to downgrade Spain's
China attracted $ 91.7 bln in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 11 months of 2010, nearly 18% more than in the same period of 2009, the Ministry of Commerce said
European car sales fell 7.1% in November, industry association ACEA said on Wednesday, as economic woes and austerity measures dampened customers' demand for new cars. European carmakers are looking to Asia and
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao begins a three-day visit to India on Wednesday, trying to boost trade and soothe tensions between the two fastest-growing major economies in the world. Wen's visit is the
A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds on Tuesday for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target of U.S. fury over
Fancy new features like 3D screens and Internet connectivity have failed to inspire U.S. television shoppers, dashing a hoped-for recovery in the global consumer electronics industry. TV manufacturers such as Sony Corp,
The airline industry body IATA unveiled a plan on Tuesday to replace lengthy and sometimes intrusive passenger security checks at airports with a new system aimed at finding "bad people, not bad
