France and Italy have fallen badly behind on pledges to boost their development aid and should follow the example of Britain, which has stuck to pledges despite austerity measures, Bob Geldof said on Tuesday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 16, 2011
Transparency campaigners sued the European Union's executive on Tuesday for withholding documents on free trade talks with India, stepping up pressure on the bloc to make its policymaking less secretive.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 16, 2011
A Chinese company has won a 900 million euro ($1.21 billion) contract to build a new international airport in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, underscoring the close links between China and sanctions-hit Sudan.
Wenwen Meng
Feb 15, 2011
Chinese inflation data helped ease investor concerns on Tuesday that the world's No 2 economy will have to tighten monetary policy more aggressively, but other data releases kept markets in a tight range.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 15, 2011
China is the top economy in the world, the majority of Americans believe, according to the latest Gallup Poll.
Hao Li
Feb 14, 2011
Cuba has released two more political dissidents -- Hector Maseda and Angel Moya – from prison in a deal arranged by the Catholic Church.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 13, 2011
Resurgence of far-right in Europe (SLIDESHOW)
Palash Ghosh
Feb 12, 2011
The chief of Germany’s central bank Axel Weber will resign from his job at the end of April, according the German government, following a meeting with German chancellor Angela Merkel
Palash Ghosh
Feb 12, 2011
Bundesbank president Axel Weber said in an interview released on Saturday he decided he did not want to be a candidate for the European Central Bank presidency because of a lack of acceptance in some European countries.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 12, 2011
Zimbabwe is an important ally to China and Beijing will seek to further strengthen ties, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said of a country isolated by the West under President Robert Mugabe's rule.
Wenwen Meng
Feb 11, 2011
The European Union’s (EU) energy commissioner has said that the EU’s new partnerships with Central Asian nations do not pose a threat to Russia’s gas sales to Europe.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 11, 2011
A halt to cocoa-buying in Ivory Coast is leaving beans to rot in farm warehouses, while smuggling through Ghana intensifies and some growers switch to other crops, farmers said on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
Power cuts, shortages of medicine and cooking gas, empty cash machines, depleted shops and piles of uncollected trash: these were things Ivorians used to see as the scourge of their poorer West African neighbours.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
Industrial production in the UK rose in December last year, mainly led by a sharp increase in the output of utilities.
Shankar besta
Feb 10, 2011
Nearly one third of internet users in European Union caught a computer virus last year, according to recently released figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 09, 2011
As Ireland slowly recovers from its financial crisis, the economy will not be able to create any jobs and consumer spending will remain depressed, according to a study by NCB Group, the Dublin-based financial services firm.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 08, 2011
South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare independence in final results of a referendum announced on Monday, opening the door to Africa's newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 08, 2011
Gunshots were fired in the centre of the Tunisian capital on Tuesday, people in the area said, in a new blow to faltering efforts to restore security after the overthrow of the autocratic president.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 08, 2011
With the slogan 'Internet is more than a game, it's your life', 'Safer Internet Day' 2011 aims to heighten awareness in children and teenagers on the risks of online gaming and social networking or in short the 'virtual life'.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 08, 2011
Even as results of a landmark vote show the people of Southern Sudan have decided to form a new nation and international leaders congratulate them, recent reported violent incidents in the North and South indicate that peace in the embattled nation is fragile.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
After the Great Recession, Europe has embarked on a Great Regression. Wages, pensions, unemployment insurance, welfare benefits and collective bargaining are under attack in many areas as governments struggle
Samantha Nolan
Feb 07, 2011
Astonished by the uprising in Egypt, Western countries anxious to be on the right side of history have started to reassess ties to army-backed Arab strongmen stubbornly opposed to democracy.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
