A renewed selling frenzy gripped euro zone financial markets on Tuesday as concern mounted that a record EU/IMF bailout for Greece would not stop a debt crisis spreading in the single currency area.
Striking public workers challenged the Greek government's bailout-for-austerity deal with the EU and IMF on Tuesday as investors fretted about Athens' ability to push through ambitious budget cuts.
The United States on Friday placed Russia on its list of countries with the worst records of preventing copyright theft for the 13th straight year, just days after the two nations agreed to intensify talks on Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization.
The IMF and Argentina are talking about sending an IMF technical mission to the country to improve the quality of the government's economic data, a senior IMF official said on Saturday.
The global space business grew to $261.6 billion in 2009, expanding 7 percent from 2008 and 40 percent over the past five years at a time when other industries were slammed by recession, according to a report released Monday by the nonprofit Space Foundation.
Markets saluted a euro zone deal on a huge standby rescue package for Greece, slashing the debt-laden country's borrowing costs and buying its stocks and bonds on Monday as fears of a near-term default evaporated.
The livestock industry and the federal government are allocating $5 million for the research on foot and mouth disease overseas, rather than importing the live virus.
Agricultural seed giant Monsanto Co posted a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and warned that potent competition, primarily in its struggling Roundup herbicide business, would make it hard to meet its 2010 financial targets.
When entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie, didn't just donate some money, he started a company with the goal of putting shoes on the feet of every needy child.
In an attempt to end trade dispute with China, world's top soy oil exporter Argentina asked the dragon nation to suspend its decision to halt soy oil imports. Argentina's foreign ministry in a statement said the decision is of great concern and urged Beijing to suspend the measure and ensure it does not come into force. Last week, a Chinese trade body urged traders not to buy Argentine soy oil in retaliation for the country's decision to restrict imports of Chinese products ranging from shoes to...
Facing enormous energy shortage, Vietnam on Tuesday signed an agreement with the US to boost nuclear energy production in the country. According to Vietnam's energy ministry, the deal will help the country to meet growing energy demand as it allows U.S. firms to help build nuclear plants in the country.
As Argentina's oil battle with the United Kingdom rages on, the only other obstacle the South American country can throw at oil companies planning to drill near the Falkland Islands is to interdict U.K. ships or equipment - but regional expert Riordan Roett doubts the Argentines are stupid enough to do that.
The soaring prices of gold prompted all gold producers across the globe to raise their output and that is certain to impact the gold prices in the coming months. Miners from all corers have reported a rise in production as several firms tried to cash in on the rising prices and reduced their hedging in anticipation of better prices in the coming days.
Carlos Castejon greets us wearing a cowboy hat, a red flannel shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. For him, it's just another day at Finca el Cisne, his 2,000-acre ranch outside of Copan Ruinas, Honduras. But for us, it will be a day filled with tasting local produce, horseback riding and learning about how coffee beans are grown and harvested.
Australia's Arrow Energy is set to reject as too low a $3 billion joint takeover offer from Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina
Kathryn Bigelow became the fist woman to win the award for Best Director on Sunday at the 2010 Academy Awards, in which her film The Hurt Locker took five awards including Best Picture.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is happy with his current investment in New York Times Co, one of his close aides told Reuters on Monday.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Monday scrapped a decree to tap $6.6 billion in foreign reserves to help honor public debt this year, but ordered the use of reserves to pay multilateral lenders. In her state of the union address to Congress, Fernandez said she had signed a new decree allowing the use of about $4 billion of central bank reserves to pay lenders such as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be in Chile on Tuesday to help officials assess and help provide post-quake needs.
A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 85 people, knocking down buildings, homes and hospitals, and triggering a tsunami.
Many independent travelers, despite the best intentions of steering clear, often succumb to the allure of a guided day tour.
Three of international ice hockey's greatest rivalries take center stage for a hat-trick of grudge matches in what is being billed as Olympic Super Sunday at Canada Hockey Place.
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