Britons' expectations for inflation over the next 12 months jumped to 3.3 percent in May, the highest level in nearly two years, a quarterly survey from the Bank of England showed on
Former South African President Nelson Mandela will not attend the opening match of the soccer World Cup on Friday after his great grand-daughter was killed, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said. The Foundation
Three Greek World Cup players had money stolen from their hotel rooms and Chinese journalists were robbed at gunpoint, officials said on Thursday. Another 11 tourists were robbed of passports and luxury
Spain's economy ministry said on Friday it had not made a request for economic aid from the European Union, after a newspaper report that the EU was preparing to activate a package
TIMELINE Here is a timeline of key events in the euro zone debt crisis since last November, when a new Greek government shocked markets by doubling estimates for the country's 2009 budget
The European Central Bank, Germany's constitutional court and China's pension fund gave a triple boost to efforts to stabilise the euro zone on Thursday, lifting the battered single currency and European stocks.
A month after the European Union announced plans for the biggest international bailout in history, the scheme is preventing financial disaster but failing to calm persistent fears in the markets. Indebted euro
Asian stocks rose for a fourth day on Friday on optimism that the world economic recovery was on track despite Europe's debt woes, while the euro was steady after a rally the
President Barack Obama's flashes of anger over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have satisfied critics, but he may face economic and political fallout from his sharp castigation of London-based BP.
The majority of Greeks expect the country's economy to worsen and see labour strikes intensifying in the coming months, based on an opinion poll by Public Issue published on Friday. The poll,
