Stocks rose on Friday as optimism about upcoming company earnings encouraged foreign buyers back into Asian markets, and the dollar retreated as investors sold the low yielding currency in favour of riskier assets. The euro steadied despite a political crisis in Portugal that prompted a downgrade from ratings agency S&P and added to concerns over
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Rebecca Black has another famous fan: Lady Gaga. At a Musicians@Google event on Tuesday, Gaga stuck up for the 13-year-old singer — who has been widely mocked on the Internet for her song, "Friday." "I think it's fantastic," Gaga said of Black's fame through YouTube, where she has more than 35 million streams. "I say
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Helen Staudinger, 92, wanted a kiss… But authorities say after her 53-year-old neighbor refused, the central Florida woman aimed a semi-automatic pistol at his house and fired four times. "If my head would have been over just a little bit further, (a bullet) probably would have hit me in the back of the head,"
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Workers battled to staunch radiation leaks at a Japanese nuclear plant on Thursday, almost two weeks after it was disabled by an earthquake and tsunami, but some experts saw signs of the crisis being brought under control. Hundreds of workers have been desperately trying to cool down the six reactors and spent fuel ponds at
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Bill Nguyen, the serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Apple Inc in 2009, is launching a new cellphone-based social network which aims to challenge Facebook's dominance in social communications beyond the personal computer. Color is a free smartphone-based application on iPhones and Android devices which lets people in close proximity capture and share
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Political turmoil in Portugal and looming elections in other countries are expected to prevent a summit of European Union leaders this week from taking tough decisions to address the region's debt crisis. For months, EU leaders have talked about using the summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to reach final agreement on a "comprehensive
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The Cyprus government hotly denied reports published in the Greek and Cypriot press over leaked U.S. embassy cables posted on WikiLeaks suggesting a lack of trust between President Demetris Christofias and his foreign minister, Markos Kyprianou. The cables released by WikiLeaks allege that this lack of trust created an internal obstacle to progress on the
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There are no effects in the environment of Cyprus from the radioactive discharges leaking from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Plant stated the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on Wednesday. According to an official announcement there are agricultural, milk and water products affected and there are higher than usual radionuclides in the atmosphere of the area
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A Cypriot-Qatari Joint Labour Committee will hold tomorrow its first meeting in Nicosia, in a bid to commence talks between the two countries on labour issues, as well as for the signing of a bilateral agreement in the field of safety and health at work. An official press release issued here today notes that during
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Japanese shares slipped on Thursday, with a sell-off in Tokyo Electric Power Co and financial firms weighing on the broad Topix index as radiation leaks from a quake-stricken nuclear plant stifled any optimism on the global economy. Market observers said the problems at the troubled power facility remain the key focus for investors, with the
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