Libya's rebel military commander was shot dead in an incident that remained shrouded in mystery, dealing a blow to Western-backed forces labouring in a campaign to topple Muammar Gaddafi.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero will push elections up by four months.
Ireland's insistence that it is different from Greece and the rest of the euro zone periphery appears finally to be striking a chord among investors.
Indiana state lawmakers, who are analyzing the implications of amending its drug laws to decriminalize marijuana, were told by a panel of experts that the prohibition of marijuana in U.S. is a failed model and Indiana stands a chance to benefit from decriminalizing marijuana.
Madeleine McCann, the British girl who has been missing for four years, was reportedly spotted in the northern Indian town of Leh. However, details of the spotting are unclear and the McCann family is not optimistic.
Only a very small portion of these people are receiving anti-viral drugs to treat their condition.
Public health officials say roughly 130 million injection drug users worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, according to a study published online by World Health Organization said on Tuesday in The Lancet, which coincides with 'World Hepatitis Day.'
Moody's Corp , owner of one of the three major debt-rating agencies, reported a 56 percent rise in second-quarter profit, but cautioned that the second half of the year would be more difficult.
The Greek sovereign debt crisis has been resolved, and NFL owners and players have inked a new contract. Is a debt deal between Democrats and Republicans up ahead? As the saying goes -- "things occur in threes."
Spain and Italy paid a high price to sell short-term debt on Tuesday, compounding investors' concern that last week's bailout package for Greece left the euro zone's debt crisis unresolved.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Tuesday urged the United States to quickly resolve a political stalemate over raising the debt ceiling, warning that failure to reach an agreement would have serious consequences for the world economy.
Memo to Washington from corporate America: unemployment is high, confidence is low and your bickering over the country's debt is the last thing we need.
Moody's cut Greece's credit rating further into junk territory on Monday and said it was almost certain to slap a default tag on its debt as a result of a new EU rescue package.
Moody's cut Greece's credit rating further into junk territory on Monday and said it was almost certain to slap a default tag on its debt as a result of a new EU rescue package.
American consumers, faced with grim job prospects and the looming threat of a national debt default, are in no position to support the global economy with a new wave of spending.
UniCredit , Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank may have passed the recent health check of Europe's banks, but they are likely to be among the first big lenders in need of cash if the euro zone crisis worsens.
Some countries have banned certain names which are odd, blasphemous, numbers or symbols
Private-sector growth in the euro zone ground to a halt this month and China's factory sector contracted for the first time in a year, surveys showed on Thursday, deepening evidence of a global slowdown.
Growth ground to a halt in the euro zone's private sector this month while China's factory sector contracted for the first time in a year, surveys showed on Thursday, deepening evidence of a sharp slowdown in the global economy.
The euro zone's private sector grew at its weakest pace in almost two years this month as demand from abroad fell and the region's ongoing debt crisis weighed on minds at home, business surveys showed on Thursday.
The euro climbed a third day on Thursday as a deal between France and Germany over a bailout of Greece raised hopes ahead of a major European summit, though investors barely moved from government bonds and precious metals.
Cyprus may need a bailout to cope with its worst peacetime disaster from a munitions blast unless urgent action is taken to improve the country's finances, Central Bank Governor Athanasios Orphanides has warned.
