U.S. employers stepped up hiring in October and a small increase in the jobless rate was due to more workers restarting their job hunts, a hopeful sign for a lackluster economy that has been a drag on President Barack Obama's re-election bid. Employers added 171,000 people to their payrolls last month, the Labor Department said
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Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel set the practice pace on Friday ahead of an Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that could bring him a fifth win in a row and speed Red Bull to the constructors' title. The German lapped the floodlit Yas Marina circuit with a quickest lap of one minute 41.751 seconds, set
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* Waiting for final bailout deal, "Nyet" to privatisations * Cyprus remains at odds with international lenders over privatisations and automatic wage hikes, its finance minister said on Friday, but is optimistic a bailout deal will be brokered soon. Vassos Shiarly said there were also differences with the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European
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Air France has recently registered over 1 mln fans on its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/airfrance ). Present on the world’s largest social media network since July 2010, Air France interacts daily with its fans and feeds its wall with posts, videos and photos of its products and services and competitions on more than 50 markets. Air
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The United States and Japan must share responsibility with Europe for ensuring global economic stability, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said, signalling that a G20 meeting this weekend should not focus solely on the euro zone crisis. Speaking in an interview before finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 nations meet in
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House President Yiannakis Omirou expressed his confidence that no foreign government or company will succumb to Turkey’s blackmailing to withdraw interest for Cyprus’ offshore hydrocarbons. Omirou was addressing a roundtable discussion, on Russian-Cypriot business cooperation, in Ayia Napa, a town on Cyprus’ eastern coast. The discussion was organised by the parliamentary European Club of Russia’s
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President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney went back on the attack on Thursday, breaking a storm-induced campaign truce to hit the road and pound home their closing messages in the final stretch of a tight battle for the White House. With five days left until Tuesday's election, Obama received an endorsement from New York
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Apple fans lined up in several Asian cities to get their hands on the iPad mini on Friday, but the device, priced above rival gadgets from Google and Amazon.com, attracted smaller crowds than at the company's previous global rollouts. Apple Inc's global gadget rollouts are typically high-energy affairs drawing droves of buyers who stand in
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– Innocent are being dragged through mud -politician – Suicide victim earned better life by hard work -family – Anti-corruption journalist charged while corrupt go free – Lists creating a sick political climate -campaigner Leonidas Tzanis, a Greek provincial lawyer and former government minister, went down to his basement garage in the city of Volos last
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Two weeks before trial in a high-stakes lawsuit pitting Google's Motorola Mobility unit against Microsoft, Google made what has become a common request for a tech company fighting for billions of dollars: a public court proceeding conducted largely in secret. Google, like its counterparts in the smartphone patent wars, is eager to keep sensitive business
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