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Car maker Ford and billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Holidays have suspended advertising in Britain's News of the World due to allegations of hacking by the newspaper while travel operators Thomson and First Choice are among a growing band of companies reviewing their policies.

Car maker Ford has suspended advertising in Britain's News of the World due to allegations of hacking by the newspaper, while lender Halifax joined a growing band of companies reviewing their policies.

Pfizer Inc may have won over shareholders with its recent decision to pare back research and development spending but could be shortchanging them in the long run, according to its former research chief.

The definitive reference work on science fiction is coming back for the first time in 18 years, the UK's Orion Publishing Group announced today.

Prince William and Kate Middleton have surfaced in Yellowknife, Canada today, leaving a lot of us asking, where the heck is Yellowknife?

British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the alleged hacking of a murdered schoolgirl's voicemail by the News of the World, part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, as the scandal closed in on a top News Corp executive and Murdoch protegee.

The world’s largest train manufacturer, Bombardier, said it will eliminate 1,400 jobs at its plant in Derby in the north of England.

European services growth slowed in June in the face of sluggish new orders and rising interest rates, giving firms less optimism about the year ahead, business surveys showed on Tuesday.

Disbanded hacker group, LulzSec's leader Sabu said, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arrest prompted him to get involved with the hacker group Anonymous, in an interview with Newscientist. When I found out about what happened to Julian Assange, his arrest in the UK and so on, I found it absolutely absurd. So I got involved with Anonymous at that point, said Sabu. This is the first time a key LulzSec member is giving a media interview shedding light on hackers' beliefs, and mot...

European Union rules to tighten derivatives rules won't be agreed until at least the early autumn, as a global crackdown on the opaque sector faces delays on both sides of the Atlantic.

- Hundreds of bankers will lose their jobs over coming weeks, victims of what senior bosses say is likely to be an industry-wide culling of staff in response to a sharp downturn in demand for trading and investment banking services.

Reserve-rich Asia can afford to turn on the government spending taps should a recent bout of sluggish economic growth deteriorate into a deeper downturn.

Today is the Fourth of July, which marks the celebration of the United States' 236th birthday. This day marks the attainment of freedom from the Great Britain and the emergence of a sovereign country.

Britain has pledged to offer £38-million ($61-million) to Ethiopia in order to feed more than one million people who have been devastated by a severe drought.

Samsung's strategic Smartphone Galaxy S2 which Samsung made to battle Apple's iPhone has sold 3 million units globally.

The Korea-based company has no intentions to replace the popularity of the Galaxy S series in the market.

Switzerland's UBS is still facing difficult market conditions after a tough second quarter and is reviewing its mid-term goals, the bank's chairman was quoted as saying on Sunday.

In his book NASA conspiracies British journalist and author Nick Redfern has raised many questions on the space agency efforts in exploring outer space, including the Apollo moon landings, the controversial face on Mars, UFO sightings and other secret space programs.

Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, attended a tree planting ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on the third day of their royal tour of Canada on Saturday.

Google's move to dismiss the case against it with regards to last years controversial WiFi sniffing was rejected, putting it in a position to face charges for wire-tapping.

Since the dawning of cellular phones researchers have pondered whether there existed a link between usage and brain cancer, but evidence for both sides always emerges.