Abu Dhabi has approved a raft of projects including the delayed branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums after a review of development plans, signaling the oil-exporting Gulf emirate's support to state-linked
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged to address swiftly EU concerns over changes to Hungarian law, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Tuesday following talks. Earlier this month, the Commission
The number of building permits continued to decline in November, falling by 18% compared with the year earlier to 601. The total value of these permits reached EUR 145.1 mln and the
**Arrivals up 10.1% in 2011 ** The tourism sector had its best year in over a decade in 2011 , with arrivals rising by 10.1% compared with the previous year, up from
France approved on Monday a bill making it illegal to deny the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago was genocide, sparking angry retaliation from Turkey which threatened
U.S. President Barack Obama will pitch new initiatives on jobs, taxes and housing in an election-year State of the Union address on Tuesday as he seizes his biggest moment yet on the
A subsea cable some 540 nautical miles long will soon connect Israel and Cyprus to south-east and western Europe to satisfy the continent’s need for cheap and sufficient electricity. The project, initiated
Cyprus-based Marfin Popular Bank said on Friday it had submitted a "capital enhancement" plan to regulators designed to raise its benchmark core Tier 1 capital to 9% by the end of June.
Michel Barnier, the official in charge of regulating finance in the European Union, meets George Osborne on Monday in what are likely to be tough talks over rules the British finance minister
The prospect of finding crude oil on the island or off our coast has lured prospectors from as far back as the late 1930s, but the cost of exploration and the depth
