France-based Airbus AS has secured a total of 211 orders at the 12th Dubai Airshow worth $20.5 billion. The order involves 135 firm orders worth $13.7 billion (130 A320neo and five A380s) and 76 memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth $6.8 billion.
Defectors from the Syrian army attacked a military checkpoint in the Hama province on Tuesday night, killing at least eight soldiers and security troops
Occupy Wall Street protesters planned to take back Zuccotti Park when an NYC court ruled in favor of Mayor Bloomberg, making the OWS ousting permanent. As demonstrators take to the streets to protest the ruling, relive the day after the NYPD raid, with photos of and conversations with Occupiers at Canal Street, Duarte Park and Liberty Square.
Occupy Wall Street protesters stormed Manhattan's Duarte Square Tuesday morning, hours after being kicked out of Zuccotti Park by the NYPD. Hundreds of protesters descended on the square, where they quickly assembled, erected several wooden makeshift tent-like structures, and began planning their next moves.
Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti raced to assemble a new government for Italy on Tuesday while a sharp rise in French borrowing costs raised fears that the two-year debt crisis may spread to the euro zone's second biggest economy.
Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti raced to assemble a new government for Italy Tuesday while a sharp rise in French borrowing costs raised fears that the two-year debt crisis may spread to the euro zone's second-biggest economy.
Professional skier Jamie Pierre, full name: Matthew Jamie Pierre, died Sunday afternoon after he was swept off a rocky cliff by an avalanche he triggered dropping into a steep northwest facing slope while he and a friend were snowboarding at Utah's Snowbird Ski Resort, according to sources.
The reverberations of the Eurozone Crisis may hit the United States' shores, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. The group pegged the chance of a 2012 recession at over 50 percent.
Lonmin, the world's third-largest platinum producer, beat expectations with a 59 percent jump in full-year earnings, even though a strike at its Karee operations drove up unit costs and forced the miner to cut its output target.
There is much mystery surrounding the bizarre incident and its resolution.
The top 15 American cities favored by citizens of the United States were revealed by a recent poll conducted by one of the world's leading custom market-research firms.
This spells more bad news for the ruling Socialist government which is likely facing a huge defeat at the hands of the opposition conservative Popular Party in the November 20 elections.
Whether or not one believes in the myth of the perfect palindrome - 11/11/11 (read as Friday, Nov. 11, 2011) capable of bringing fortune or disaster to the planet, the day is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime moment; there won't be another like it for another 100 years, literally.
The Twilight Saga might not make it to sunup.
The Family Circus creator Bil Keane, whose kid-friendly comic strip gave readers a funny version of his own life at home and became one of the most widely syndicated cartoon panels in the world, has died at age 89, his distributor said on Wednesday.
Is the U.S. job market on the mend? Initial jobless claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. dropped for the second week in a row, to 390,000 -- their lowest level in seven months, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Stocks rebounded on Thursday, a day after the S&P 500 suffered its worst day since mid-August as Italian bond yields eased.
Stock index futures rose on Thursday, indicating the S&P 500 may bounce back from its worst day since mid-August as Italian bond yields eased.
Storm of an epic intensity hit the western coastline of Alaska Wednesday, causing flooding and power failures. It inflicted damage to buildings in coastal villages.
The National Weather Service has dubbed the storm currently pounding Alaska as life-threatening and epic. It is a storm of historic intensity, measuring twice the size of Texas and listed as having Category 3 hurricane force winds.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 comes out Nov. 15 and brings with it a host of new characters and tweaks to returning fighters.
An epic storm hit Nome, Alaska on Wednesday, but it's not the first time this has happened. In 1974, another Bering Sea storm hit Western Alaska causing millions of dollars of damage.
