Hundred years after the Titanic set sail on its fateful voyage across the Atlantic on April 10, 1912, a second historic cruise will depart New York City on the same day in 2012 to mark the centenary year of the sinking ship.
The commitments include major steps towards the continuing reduction of TUI's carbon footprint in the air and on the ground, both in its UK operations and holiday destinations worldwide.
Theoretical astrophysicist Martin J Rees has received the 2011 Templeton Prize for inspiring questions that reshape crucial philosophical and theological considerations that strike at the core of life.
Stock index futures pointed to a flat open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 trading little changed.
Britain's largest retail chain Mark and Spencer customers email addresses have been hacked and the company has sent warning messages to many online customers who have supplied the store with email addresses, various media outlet reported.
Libyan gunmen are reportedly shooting sub-Saharan refugees who seek to escape Libya by boat, according to a report in the UK newspaper The Independent.
Genpact Ltd (NYSE: G), the outsourcing company spun off from General Electric Co., has agreed to acquire privately-held IT services provider Headstrong Corp. for $550 million in cash to expand its operations in the United States.
Golf legend Tiger Woods answers questions at a press conference.
While making his first official visit to Pakistan as Prime Minister, Britain’s leader David Cameron has made some comments about his country’s imperial past that has raised some hackles in London.
The forex market is dominated by financial/speculative transactions rather than commercial transactions. Of financial transactions, it’s dominated by trades in currencies themselves rather than portfolio flows.
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will buy Pringles from Procter & Gamble Co for $1.5 billion in stock, snagging a global brand that will more than triple the size of its snack foods business.With the days of planting flags across the globe long gone, western European telecoms are unlikely to rush to merge even as deep-pocketed emerging market rivals entertain deals at the edges of their territory.
A Scottish publication does the math
Seif al-Islam, son of Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi, has dismissed the importance of the country’s former foreign minister, Moussa Koussa, who has defected to Britain and reportedly providing intelligence to U.K. officials.
Britain's first official royal app was launched on Tuesday, and with the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton just weeks away, unsurprisingly it focuses on royal weddings.
U.S. blue-chip stocks eked out small gains Monday in the lightest trading volume all year, but other major indexes finished flat as the technology sector sagged.
The number of women suspected to have been killed by the notorious ‘Craigslist killer’ crept up to at least seven on Tuesday as police discovered three more bodies from an area near the highway leading to Jones Beach in New York. The Suffolk County Police said the body of an eighth woman has also been found, but the case has not yet been connected to the Craigslist killing.
A new pro-government Iranian blogging competition called The Face of '89, in reference to the Persian calendar year 1389, just ended on March 20.
Moussa Koussa, the former foreign minister of Libya who recently defected to the United Kingdom, may soon be answering questions about the tragic Lockerbie bombing of December 1988, according to Scottish prosecutors.
Agence French Presse is reporting that Kate Middleton's childhood home is up for sale for approximately 500,000 pounds.
The house where Kate Middleton used to live for 13 years is on the market for £460,000 ($742k USD).
Vodafone's exit from France's SFR marks another step in the revamp of its portfolio and reflects how Europe's telecom giants are ditching weaker assets to achieve scale elsewhere ahead of a wave of big investments.
