Influenza can help trigger heart attacks and may account for a 35 percent to 50 percent rise in heart attack deaths during flu season, British researchers reported on Monday.
J.M.W. Turner is widely accepted as one of Britain's greatest painters. A new exhibition shows he was also one of its most competitive.
World stocks climbed and the dollar fell on Tuesday ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, with investors' search for higher returns reflected in the New Zealand dollar's surge to 13-month highs.
The Aussie dollar began the week on a softer note drifting lower in Asia from its early morning high around 0.8680 eventually testing support at 86 cents in early offshore trade. A move out of riskier assets heading into the FOMC meeting and a pullback in commodity prices weighed on the AUD which reached an eventual low around 0.8590. North American pared back some of the losses to push the Aussie dollar back to this morning's open around 0.8630 against the Greenback.
The head of chocolate maker Cadbury PLC, which is facing a possible takeover by U.S. food giant Kraft Foods Inc, said there were some complementary elements in the two companies' portfolios, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Targeted online advertising firm Phorm Inc posted a narrower pretax loss for the first half, helped by cost cuts, and said it remained confident about its future.
Adecco currently has a opportunities for acquisitions but will keep financial discipline, the chief executive of the world's largest staffing company said in a press interview on Monday.
The Aussie dollar bounced between 0.8650 and 0.8715 during Friday's offshore session weighed down by profit taking on the Euro to open this morning at 0.8670.
Militant Islamist group al Qaeda threatened Germany with attacks for the second time this weekend in an online video criticizing the country for its deployment of troops in Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.
Miner Anglo American is not about to request a put up or shut up order on Xstrata to make a formal bid or walk away, a source close to the company said on Sunday, denying a media report.
President Barack Obama, preparing to meet with other G20 leaders in Pittsburgh, on Saturday stressed the need for regulations to prevent another global economic crisis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel was optimistic agreement could be reached at the summit.
Kerry Group sees Kraft Foods Inc's bid for Britain's Cadbury as the potential start of a wider consolidation wave with rich pickings for the Irish food group, its chief executive said on Saturday.
Deutsche Lufthansa is aiming for an agreement with Scandinavian SAS by the end of 2009 on the stake it does not already own in Britain's bmi airline, management board member Stefan Lauer told a German magazine.
At first impression, the man no one knows as Michael Penniman seems uncharacteristically quiet. As he takes a well-earned break from rehearsing for a tour to promote one of the year's most eagerly anticipated music releases, he seems tired and anxious, a far cry from his usual ebullience.
The founders of Skype filed a new lawsuit on Friday against Index Ventures and one of its partners, Michelangelo Volpi, accusing him of stealing trade secrets to help broker the sale of the Internet phone service owned by eBay Inc.
Glorious 39 sends mixed signals. One minute it seems like a conspiracy thriller and the next one of those well-upholstered English melodramas about the privileged class pushing back against threats to their way of life. Either way, it's a lot of hokum that relies on contrivance and chance to move its dubious plot forward.
The dollar rebounded from a one-year low against the euro on Friday as waning risk appetite cut demand for higher-yielding currencies and boosted safe-haven demand for the greenback. Sterling declined across the board, hitting a near five-month low euro on renewed concerns about the UK banking sector.
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi launched a website on Friday with the aim of proving his innocence in the 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over Scotland in which 270 people died.
Global stocks faltered and oil prices fell below $72 a barrel on Friday as waning risk appetite lifted the U.S. dollar against most major currencies.
Independent News & Media is likely to close its flagship London title The Independent by Christmas, the publishing group's second biggest shareholder Denis O'Brien said on Friday.
South Africa's labor federation COSATU is trying to halt a planned multi-billion tie-up between MTN and India's Bharti Airtel but the Treasury wants a deal, sources close to the matter said.
U.S. food giant Kraft could raise its bid 20 percent up to 12.3 billion pounds ($20.1 billion) to seal a takeover deal for Britain's Cadbury without losing a key investment grade rating on its debt.
