(Reuters) - Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
The European Central Bank will not let Lorenzo Bini Smaghi be forced off its executive board and expects him to leave only if he is asked to head the Bank of Italy when Mario Draghi becomes ECB president in November, ECB sources have told Reuters.
Gold continued to trade in a tight range Tuesday morning around $1538 per ounce - just over 2% off its all-time high - after a flat day on Monday as the UK and US had official holidays.
A non-European head of the International Monetary Fund could mean a tougher, more realistic action plan for the euro zone debt crisis, Mexican central bank chief Agustin Carstens said in newspaper interviews on Tuesday.
Serbia may send Ratko Mladic to face genocide charges in The Hague within four days, a justice official said on Monday, after the Bosnian Serb wartime general’s son said he appeared frail after 16 years of run.
The idea that a Greek debt restructuring could be carried out in an orderly way is a fairytale, European Central Bank board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghi told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday.
Financial markets will remain skeptical that Spain can steer clear of the crisis until the country manages to finish its reform of the labor market, a senior European Central Bank policymaker said in an interview.
More than two months ago on March 21, demonstrators in Daraa set fire to the ruling Baath Party’s headquarters and government buildings. Police officials started gunning down the crowd reportedly killing hundreds by March 24. The total may have exceeded 5,000 now, reports say.
The equivocal, baby step rhetoric of the SNB - together with Swiss exporters' reluctance to give up the benefits of a weaker Swiss Franc - suggest that we shouldn't expect Switzerland either to race away from the bottom just yet.
An Islamic states association has complained about a European draft resolution that asks the UN Security Council to condemn Syria and has demanded that part to be deleted.
British intelligence sources are convinced that Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi has become “paranoid” that NATO’s missile attacks on his country will lead to his death, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, quoting UK diplomats.
Some of the biggest and best-known international banks held billions of dollars Libyan state oil money.
The arrest of Serbian war criminal fugitive Ratko Mladic has been hailed by leading political figures in Europe and the U.S.
Silver Prices handed back most of Wednesday's gains, dropping 6% inside three hours before hovering around $37 per ounce.
He may not be as globally well-known as Osama bin Laden, but Ratko Mladic is one of the most notorious war criminals of our era.
Imagine vacationing at a spa in the steaming caldera of a Caribbean volcano...
U.S. President Barack Obama said Palestinians should not seek the United Nations’ help in establishing a state, but should rather negotiate directly with the Israelis.
European Union has besieged more Iranian shipping companies as a move to tighten sanctions which have been imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Top emerging economies joined forces to slam Europe's obsolete grip on the IMF's top job, even as France's finance minister appeared to strengthen her lead in the race to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou efforts to impose more austerity measures on his already-beleaguered nation struck a roadblock when key government figures said they would not back any further spending cuts or tax hikes.
In less than 90 days, the debt crisis in Europe drove gold up more than 17.5% in 2010. If gold were to repeat the same pattern we saw last year, we could tack on 17%+ from today’s prices, putting the metal at over $1780 per ounce.
President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron laid out their broad guidelines for using force against other nations in the context of a wide-ranging opinion piece on Tuesday which touched upon rising democratic movements in the Middle East and the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan.
