WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court Tuesday as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes.
Stocks finished mixed, following a sell-off in Europe, on worries over Portugal possibly needing a financial bailout, ahead of the kick-off of the fourth-quarter earnings season.
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange is due to appear in a London court on Tuesday as lawyers draw the battle lines in his fight to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning about alleged sex crimes.
Socialbakers, which specialize in monitoring the Facebook platform, has revealed some interesting Facebook statistics. Perhaps the most surprising finding is that Japan, whose renown as a technology pioneer is unparalleled, is lagging way behind most countries in terms of Facebook penetration.
When a quest for spirituality or devotion is merged with a sense of luxury, pilgrimage is given a whole new dimension. Luxury has imparted a new concept to a holy journey and this trend is fast catching up across the globe.
UK department store chain Debenhams Plc said bad weather in December impacted like-for-like sales by 2.5 percent to 3.0 percent for the 19 weeks to January 8.
UK recruitment consultancy Michael Page International Plc reported a 32 percent rise in fourth-quarter gross profit, as most of the growth came from permanent recruitment and said it was optimistic about its 2011 prospects.
England soccer star David Beckham and his wife, former Spice Girl singer Victoria Beckham, are expecting their fourth child in summer.
Air France-KLM saw a 2 percent increase in passenger traffic in December after heavy snowfall across Europe and the U.S. that will shave an estimated 70 million euros ($90.36 million) off revenues, the airline group said on Monday.
The United States and UK have settled a jurisdictional dispute that will allow U.S. inspectors to examine whether the British auditors of Lehman Brothers Holdings improperly cleared questionable accounting, Bloomberg said on Monday.
An online survey conducted among 2,742 Canadian students shows a strong inclination among them to go for studies abroad.
More than 2-million people in the United Kingdom have used their credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent in the last twelve months, a 50 percent increase from the prior year, according to Shelter, the British housing and homelessness charity.
Defense stocks dodged a bullet this week when the Pentagon said it plans for its budget to grow modestly through 2014 before leveling off in 2015, but political and fiscal concerns in Congress could slow the sector further during that period and beyond.
A couple wanting to know their chances of having a baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) can now take heart with an application to give them an answer as British researchers have devised a formula that will help them give quite an accurate prediction of the success of IVF treatment. Eager ‘infertile’ couples can now decide whether to try the treatment as researchers have made this formula available as a simple computer calculator application, which will soon be available for download on App...
India's will overtake the U.S. in forty years in terms of GDP at purchasing power parities (PPP) while China will sail past its financial and political rival as early as 2018, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) report said on Friday.
Despite winning three matches by an innings to take the Ashes series 3-1, England skipper Andrew Strauss claims his side are yet to peak.
Starbucks Corp told a federal judge it gave Kraft Foods Inc ample warning of its plans to end their grocery partnership and that the food maker is now standing in the way of an orderly break-up.
IBTimes compiles a list of the greatest trades of all time with accompying information that explains the rankings.
England's veteran cricketer Paul Collingwood has announced his retirement from Test cricket before the fourth day of the fifth Ashes test at Sydney
In this piece, we will examine four of gold's most important rules; the irreversible trends affecting the gold price; and how the consequences of these trends will push gold higher in 2011 and beyond.
Justin Bieber is insisting on the inclusion of Cheryl Cole on the show, Glee, with him
The UK service sector reported a drop in output in December, its first fall since April 2009, showing that the economy's growth had declined as the last year drew to a close.
