Where are the ‘Wise Men’? Perhaps Finance Minister Charilaos Stavrakis is on a roll, proud of the fact that Cyprus seems to have been spared from the financial meltdown that the U.S.
ANALYSIS By Linda Sieg, Reuters New Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso is keen to make his mark by crafting a bigger global security role for Tokyo, but a looming election, a faltering
ANALYSIS By Jon Herskovitz, Reuters North Korea is threatening to restore its plutonium-producing nuclear plant because it feels it can win more through brinkmanship than the aid it stands to lose, analysts
By Tim Gaynor (Reuters) When Wall Street crashed in 1929, retiree Helen Haas remembers lining up with her mother at a Chicago bank to withdraw her $50 in savings — and coming
(Reuters) President George W. Bush on Wednesday made an appeal for support of a $700 billion financial bailout being negotiated with the U.S. Congress. In a nationally televised address, Bush warned that
By Adam Jasser For once, being a laggard is a boon rather than a drawback for ex-communist central Europe as it weathers the global financial storm engulfing western bastions of capitalism. While
David Chance and Yoo Choonsik A decade ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan declared that Asia would realise that "market capitalism, as practiced in the West, especially in the United States, is
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) Sue Garrett, in Las Vegas for a birthday party earlier this month, went to what she considers extraordinary lengths to hold down the cost of her trip. "We
By Brian Rohan (Reuters) Ewa Filipiak, an economist who's been apartment-hunting in Paris for six months, has decided now is not the time to buy. "It's a good time to wait and
(Reuters) The U.N. Millennium Development Goals, approved in 2000 by U.N. member states and the world's top development organizations, are the theme of next week's General Assembly gathering of world leaders. The
