Shares in India's largest vehicle maker, Tata Motors Ltd, have more than quadrupled this year riding a pick-up in sales on the back of a recovering economy.
Europe's food industry is proving slow to buy palm oil certified under a new scheme as produced without destroying tropical rain forests, the head of Germany's edible oil industry association OVID said on Wednesday.
Taking a page out of Apple's book, France Telecom's mobile phone unit Orange launched its own shop to sell downloadable videos, games, music and other content to its 130 million mobile phone subscribers.
The United Nation's climate change summit has been billed as the last hope to save the world from itself. Brought on by a rise of man-made greenhouse gases, the earth is slowly inching towards a man-induced climate disaster, urgent for coordinated action...or so the saying went.
Four nations proposed guiding principles for green funds on Wednesday, hoping to end deadlock at U.N. talks on ways to manage billions of dollars to help the poor cope with global warming.
Haifa Chemicals and Citi (C.N) said on Wednesday they had agreed to sell certified emission reduction (CER) credits after the Israeli company acquired new technology to cut its greenhouse gases.
China said on Wednesday it wanted the United States to offer sharper carbon cuts by 2020, and President Barack Obama's top aides promised robust engagement with world leaders at Copenhagen climate talks.
American pop singer-songwriter Pink will headline the 2010 Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park on July 2.
The dollar had earlier advanced broadly after Fitch downgraded Greece on Tuesday to below the single-A bracket for the first time in a decade, and prompted short covering in the U.S. currency and the yen.
The Australian Dollar opens lower today at 0.9010 after mixed local economic data releases yesterday. Strong demand out of Asia lifted the Aussie to an intraday high of 0.9165 after the current account deficit came in at A$16.183 billion in the September quarter, compared to A$16.8 billion median market forecast. Also underpinning the local unit on the day was the latest monthly NAB business survey which showed confidence has risen to its highest level since May 2002. Overnight however, it was l...
Couture dresses belonging to Victoria Beckham valued at $630,000 were stolen from a delivery van, UK's Daily Mail reported on December 5.
General Electric Co expects profit to remain flat at its hefty finance arm next year, as losses and impairments on loans peak.
A British genealogy website has put Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's World War One military service records online, alongside those of more than a million other soldiers who fought for Germany.
Britain is to make online safety lessons for children over 5 compulsory under a new scheme which aims to echo road safety campaigns of the past.
Private equity firm Actis and Singapore oil services firm KS Energy on Tuesday announced plans for a joint venture that will distribute parts and equipment to oil companies in Asia and the Middle East
McDonald's Corp said sales at established U.S. restaurants fell 0.6 percent in November, marking the second straight month of declines at domestic outlets, and its shares fell 2.6 percent.
Tesco Plc, the world's No.3 retailer, posted quarterly sales growth toward the bottom end of forecasts, held back by a drop in food price inflation, but said a gradual consumer recovery remained on track.
British telecoms firm Daisy Group Plc posted a loss for the nine-month period and said it would cut jobs to integrate its acquired businesses but was comfortable with current market expectations.
The Australian Dollar opens higher against the greenback today at 0.9135.
Smart meters, which encourage consumers to cut energy consumption, are crucial for Britain to limit costs for achieving its ambitious 2050 greenhouse gas reduction target, an executive from National Grid said.
Independent News & Media Plc sold its Verivox Holdings Ltd unit for 16 million euros ($23.8 million) on Monday, taking its total from divestments this year to its target of 150 million euros.
British confectioner Cadbury said on Monday it would post a formal response to Kraft's $16 billion takeover offer on Dec. 14.
