Haitong Securities Co. (SHA: 600837), China's second-largest brokerage by assets, raised HK$13 billion ($1.7 billion) in the largest public offering in the world so far this year, media reports said Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
After giving birth to a beautiful baby daughter Blue Ivy Carter, mamma Beyonce seems to be heading back to school. Although there she is reportedly getting back to business next month on the 25th, live on stage with Revel she might have plans to getting back to academics and finishing her incomplete schooling too. Apparently, the Singer Ladies singer was spotted entering the West 35th Street Alternative Education Complex in New York with a laptop. There are speculations that the 30-year-...
Spirit Airlines has jumped at the opportunity of using the recent Secret Service prostitution scandal as a marketing gimmick to sell cheap tickets to Cartagena, Columbia.
Syria and the United Nations signed an agreement Thursday on terms for hundreds of observers to monitor a ceasefire.
Photos of the Colombian escort caught up in a scandal that has caused three Secret Service agents to lose their jobs hit the Web Thursday. According to the New York Daily News, the woman, a 24-year-old single mother is known as Dania.
Federal prosecutors in California are investigating a Goldman Sachs employee for insider trading, according to prosecutors and defense lawyers who attended a hearing in U.S. federal court in New York on Thursday.
Organizers announce that Microsoft will be the official innovation provider, working on ways to use Xbox and other technology at the GOP event.
When 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared from his SoHo neighborhood on May 25, 1979, America was shocked. It was the first day the New York City boy was allowed to walk to the school bus stop alone. Now, 33 years later, a break in the case has prompted the FBI and New York City police to reopen the case and try to find out what happened to Patz.
Lamar Odom may have left the Dallas Mavericks, but that doesn't mean his career is finished.
Federal investigators and New York City police have reopened the case of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who went missing 33 years ago in a sensational case that got nationwide attention.
Tyler Perry released a minute-long trailer on Thursday for his new comedy, Madea Witness Protection, featuring his most popular creation, Madea, played by the cross-dressing Perry himself. The film will be the fourteenth in Perry's franchise and the seventh featuring Madea. Check out the trailer here.
The Philadelphia Eagles will likely target a defensive player in the 1st round of the NFL Draft.
Levon Helm, best known for songs like, The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down and Up on Cripple Creek,” died on April 19, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Sprint Nextel Corp., which is the third-biggest mobile service provider in the U.S., has been sued by the state of New York for allegedly not collecting or paying millions of dollars in taxes. Though Sprint denies these accusations, the company stands to pay more than $300 million if the claims are proven true.
With Rick Santorum abandoning his GOP bid on April 10, Mitt Romney has become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Recent polls show that Romney and President Obama are neck in neck in the eyes of the nation. But does Romney have a secret weapon? It's becoming more apparent that Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney is becoming an effective political weapon.
The U.S. Secret Service has already let go three of the 11 agents caught up in a prostitution scandal that allegedly took place in Cartagena, Colombia, and the U.S. military continues its investigation into the matter. And while prostitution is legal in Colombia, American military personnel accused of picking up prostitutes ahead of President Obama's visit to Colombia may face prosecution under U.S. military law.
The FBI and NYPD have resumed the search for Etan Patz, the six-year old who disappeared on his way to the school bus stop on May 25, 1979. Authorities began searching a basement on Prince Street in SoHo, New York City on Thursday, reported the New York Times. According to reports, the 15-by-30 basement is located 127B Prince Street, an estimated 200 feet from Patz's home at the time of his disappearance.
A 500-year-old painting that was stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis during World War II has been returned to its rightful owners by U.S. officials, the Associated Press reported.
HBO Girls, dubbed the most overhyped series in recent memory, debuted on Sunday, April 15, and the reviews continue to pour in. The intense promotional push brought in 872,000 viewers, a respectable number for a premium cable premiere. Despite the relatively successful debut, Girls has garnered an influx of negative feedback from critics who say the show boils down to white girls, money [and] whining.
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) on Thursday reported weaker first-quarter profit but still beat analyst expectations, which helped lift shares up more than 2 percent.
After being dismissed from the Secret Service, the former uniformed officer plans to sue the agency, as Mark Sullivan, the agency's director, informed lawmakers Wednesday night.
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), the largest U.S. oil company, and one of the major players in reviving the Iraqi oil industry, has been excluded from that country's next energy auction amid a dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds.