A painting sold for as little as 45 pounds ($70) in the 1950s but since hailed as a lost masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci and now worth millions is to go on show in November. The painting, "Salvator Mundi" (Saviour of the World), dating from around 1500, was recorded in 1649 as being part of
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AIDS drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time on Wednesday. The findings add to growing evidence that the type of medicines prescribed since the mid-1990s to treat people who are already sick may
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Turkish relations with the European Union "will freeze" if Cyprus takes over the EU presidency in July 2012 without a solution to the divided island, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Ahmet Davutoglu made his comments as the European Union's enlargement chief said in a visit to Ankara that he wanted to see "a new
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EasyJet's largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, wants to force a shareholder vote over the airline's plans to by new aircraft from Airbus, resuming a long-running dispute with the company he founded. In January, easyJet confirmed an order with EADS unit Airbus for 15 A320 aircraft with options on further 33. Haji-Ioannou on Wednesday said the terms
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Marks & Spencer bucked the gloom in Britain's retail sector, meeting forecasts with a seventh consecutive quarterly rise in underlying sales as its older and more affluent customers coped better with a squeeze in disposable incomes. Britain's biggest clothing retailer, which also sells homewares and upmarket foods, said on Wednesday sales at British stores open
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Asian equities, metals and commodity currencies rallied on Wednesday as investors piled into risky assets after China's economic growth data reassured markets that the world's second-largest economy was maintaining its growth momentum. The euro found some reprieve from a plunge since the start of the week and Australian dollar gained 0.3% to $1.0630 as the
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Cyprus attempted several times to offload a dangerous cargo of confiscated Iranian munitions before it blew up killing 12 people in the island's worst peacetime disaster, the government said on Tuesday. Attempting to fend off growing criticism, authorities said they had tried in vain to get rid of the 98 containers of munitions they confiscated
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Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan, was shot dead on Tuesday, apparently by one of his bodyguards, officials said. He was a controversial figure, but his assassination will leave a dangerous power vacuum in Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace and a focus
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Euro zone finance ministers promised cheaper loans, longer maturities and a more flexible rescue fund to help Greece and other EU debtors in a bid to stop financial contagion engulfing Italy and Spain. They also declined to rule out the possibility of a selective default by Greece to make its debt mountain more sustainable, despite
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President Barack Obama pushed congressional leaders for the largest possible deficit-reduction deal on Monday that would involve changes to popular entitlement programs, asking: "If not now, when?" Obama told a White House news conference he would meet every single day with top U.S. lawmakers until an agreement is sealed to avoid defaulting on the national
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