Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix on Sunday and stretched his Formula One championship lead over Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, who was a battling second, to 13 points with three races remaining. The victory from pole position was the world champion's fourth in a row – the first time he has done that
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Pope Benedict, closing a gathering of bishops who discussed how to win back lapsed and lukewarm Catholics, on Sunday said the Church had to develop new ways of reaching out to those who had drifted from the faith. Benedict, 85, said a solemn Mass in St Peter's Basilica to close the three-week synod of some
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Former premier Silvio Berlusconi's threat to bring down Italy's government underscores deep divisions in his centre-right party ahead of next year's elections and risks rattling markets which see Prime Minister Monti as Italy's saviour. Berlusconi made the unexpected threat on Saturday, still fuming from his conviction 24 hours earlier on charges of tax fraud and
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Greek police are seeking to arrest the editor of a weekly magazine for publishing a list of more than 2,000 names of wealthy Greeks who have placed money in Swiss bank accounts, police said on Saturday. The so-called "Lagarde List" – given to Greece by French authorities in 2010 with names to be probed for
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* Market reaction lukewarm as Surface tablet takes centre stage * Microsoft put its Surface tablet centre stage at its Windows 8 launch event, hoping the sleek new device will spark a fightback against Apple and Google in the exploding mobile computing market. With interest in traditional computers waning, the world's largest software company is
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The Rolling Stones performed an energetic warm-up gig in Paris on Thursday for a few hundred fans after announcing on Twitter that tickets would go on sale for 15 euros ($19.45) just hours in advance. "I can't believe we're all still standing up, you'd think by now one or two of us would be sitting
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The world's spare oil production capacity outside of Iran rose in last two months as gasoline demand waned in the United States and oil use for power generation fell in the Middle East, the U.S. government said in a bimonthly report. In September and October, spare oil production capacity was 2 million barrels per day,
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– Greece will need to enact more reforms to get credit – Greece is "off track", euro zone official says Greek debt will be above the target of 120 percent of GDP in 2020, a preliminary report by the IMF showed on Thursday, and Athens will need more reforms before emergency credit from international lenders
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South Korean technology powerhouse Samsung Electronics Co posted a fourth straight record quarterly profit – of $7.4 billion – with strong sales of its Galaxy range of phones masking sharply lower sales of memory chips. The record run, though, is likely to end in December, with profit growth slowing even more next year as TV
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Apple Inc delivered a second straight quarter of disappointing results and iPad sales fell well short of Wall Street's targets, marring its record of consistently blowing past investors' expectations. Shares in the world's most valuable technology company briefly dipped to levels not seen since the start of August, after it delivered a 27 percent rise
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