Syrian soldiers stormed a town east of Damascus on Sunday and rebels bombed a military convoy in the north of the country as international mediator Kofi Annan urged both sides to work with an expanded team of U.N. ceasefire monitors.
Royal Bank of Canada expects to double the number of wealth management employees in its Dubai office in the near future, and is open to opportunities for acquisitions, a senior executive said on Sunday.
An 18-year-old woman has been dubbed Britain's most beautiful face, with her well-proportioned features, even said to be the world's most beautiful.
In a quest to find the perfect face in the England, New-York based Lorraine Cosmetics reviewed thousands before deciding on blonde beauty Florence Colgate. Entrants to the competition, titled Lorraine: Naked, were judged make-up free and were required not to have undergone any form of plastic or cosmetic surgery. Click here to...
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 has popped up on Amazon's German arm's pre-order, ahead of the anticipated May 3 release date.
A week after Robin Gibb fell into a coma, the Bee Gee is starting to show signs of life and recovery, according to the Daily Mirror.
After the South Korean tech giant Samsung sent out press invites to an event for the launch of its much-hyped Galaxy S3 smartphone on May 3 in London, it was thought that the rumors about the device would slow down gradually. But contrary to the general belief, even more ambitious rumors have been surfacing online over the past few days.
Home entertainment company Netflix Inc. (NAS: NFLX) is expected to post a loss for the first time in the last seven years, according to Wall Street analysts. Netflix Q1 results will be out Monday, and according to analysts, the entertainment trendsetter will lose 27 cents per share.
Australia, Singapore, South Korea and the UK have agreed to contribute a combined $41 billion to the International Monetary Fund reserve to boost a global firewall against Europe's debt crisis.
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Twin brothers in the U.K. allegedly defrauded about 75,000 investors by telling them a stock-picking robot named "Marl" could identify penny stocks that would double in price while the brothers were simply listing stocks they were paid to promote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged on Friday.
Newly elected members of Myanmar's pro-democracy opposition party may boycott the parliament to which they just won entry.
Upbeat economic reports from Britain and Germany combined with surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings reports in the U.S. to foster a risk-on sentiment that lifted stocks and commodities while weighing on safe-haven investments.
Michelle Pfeiffer stars alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, out May 11, and she already has the fashion crowd buzzing. Michelle Pfeiffer's moody 70s-goth style has some been given the family touch. Pfeiffer will wear the designs of sister-in-law Rona Pfeiffer in the Dark Shadows film.
The Group of 20 nations on Friday were poised to commit at least $400 billion to bulk up the International Monetary Fund's war chest to fight any widening of Europe's debt crisis.
With forces gathering on both sides of the Sudan-South Sudan border, it seems that the two nations are again headed toward all-out war, which would be devastating to both countries and their international partners.
Minaj has more than 11 million followers on Twitter. She deactivated her account earlier this week.
Anonymous shut down the Formula 1 website.
Robin Gibb has shown flickers of life after his brother and fellow Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, started singing to him to try and bring him out of a coma, the Daily Telegraph reported.
European economic data released on Friday topped analyst expectations, giving a boost to the region's stock markets.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir ordered his forces to withdraw from the town of Heglig on Friday, even though he still believes the oil field is property of South Sudan.
Chinese experts believe that India has downplayed the capacity of its new nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni-V. Du Wenlong, a researcher at China's PLA Academy of Military Sciences has told Global Times that Agni-V is more powerful than what is claimed by New Delhi.
