President Obama has announced he will unveil a new plan to create...

The head of British Airways, Willie Walsh, has said a shortlist of names has been drawn up for consideration in merger...

A strike has begun at the South African mine which produces most of the country’s...

Building standards in Dubai are said to be getting worse with developers cutting jobs and other...

The IMF’s First Managing Director, John Lipsky, has stated that he believes the world economy will continue to recover moderately but will face challenges along the way, such as the need for medium-term fiscal...

Continental Airlines in the US is beginning to welcome back 132 pilots who were furloughed in...

The Swiss drugmaker Roche has decided to cut costs in response to recent setbacks in the development of major...

While US companies modestly added jobs in August, it will still take a while before unemployment falls to pre-recession...

Speculative hedge funds will come under scrutiny in Brussels over the next few...

Officials in China have suggested the country should end preferential policies for automotive companies in order to curb...

Last week a northern China highway virtually became a parking area when around 10,000 trucks became stuck in a 120 kilometre...

Nearly six million people in the UK have paid the wrong amount of...

Burger King has made the decision to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian...

The Indian auto components sector is likely to grow five times to $110 billion in the next...

WASHINGTON - Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways that would cost at...

MONROVIA, Liberia - Delta Air Lines Inc. has launched a direct flight from the U.S. to Liberia, becoming the first U.S. carrier to serve the West African nation since the end of more than a decade of...

Medicare is stronger than it has been in years, and seniors will get new benefits. That's no illusion; that's progress (Dr. Donald Berwick,...

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- The dollar consolidated versus major rivals in quiet trade Monday, as investor appetite for riskier assets remained buoyed by a stronger-than-expected round of U.S. labor data...

Willie Walsh 's bold declaration that he has a shortlist of 12 airlines he would like to acquire has sparked widespread speculation about which carriers are at the top.Paddy Power, the Irish...

British Airways cabin crew dispute is "inevitable", with the Christmas holidays a potential target for action.A mass meeting of BA flight attendants at Kempton Park Racecourse later today is expected...

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Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will propose a six-year national infrastructure plan today as part of a series of measures to boost jobs and spur the economy ahead of the congressional...

secure applications for the Internet without having to recode them. The company's EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit) 2.0 is a free tool designed to prevent current exploitation techniques...

Mr Walsh has refused to name the airlines but they are believed to include budget airlines as well as full-service carriers in Brazil, India and China. Any additions would be brought under the...

professional services firm posted profits before tax of £665m in the year to June, down 3% from £688m, while the average payout for each of its 820 partners was down 2% to £759,000. The results...

emerging markets because they face increased competition for their products from generic drugs at home and difficulty in bringing new blockbusters to market. One appeal...

Dow Jones )- Hedge funds using computer models to identify trades in bond, currency and commodity markets hit their stride in August as worries about the global economy gave markets a clear...

Middle East Gulf to Japanroute have fallen in recent days to around the operating costlevel of $10,000 a day as very large crude carriers (VLCCs)return from floating storage due to the end of a...

By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Encouraging news about the U.S.employment picture continued to spill over onto financialmarkets on Monday, lifting world...

Dow Jones )- Germany's Federal Cartel Office expects to deliver the results of its ongoing sector probe into the power wholesale market in late autumn, the regulator's president, Andreas Mundt, said...

* Coming Up: U.S. employment trends data - 1400 GMT Tuesday (Updates prices, detail, comment) By Christopher Johnson LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices slipped towards$74 per barrel on Monday...

Dow Jones )- German steelmaker and engineering company ThyssenKrupp AG (TKA.XE) plans to raise prices for flat rolled steel products by EUR30 a metric ton on average from October, a spokesman said...

By Pratima Desai LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The use of lighter, strongersteel in cars to reduce weight, boost fuel efficiency and cutcarbon emissions is growing faster than the use of...

* Clean Energy Investments JV set to target African market* Cells may become "very large" demand segment for platinum * AngloPlat eyes first fuel cell factory in two years' timeBy Jan Harvey LONDON,...

Dow Jones )- Germany's Federal Cartel Office has appealed the judgment of a regional court in August that overruled its decision to block the planned takeover of Austria's OMV AG's (OMV.XE) 59 petrol...

Dow Jones )- First Quantum Mineral Ltd. (FQ.T) is seeking more than $1 billion in compensation for the expropriation of two Congolese mines, a senior executive said Monday. The compensation demand...

Dow Jones )- A day ahead of a crucial meeting of regulators in Basel that aims to decide exactly how much more capital banks will need to hold in future, the Federal Association of German banks, or...

* Analysts warn that state firms could stifle privatesector * China aims to consolidate firms, but regulator seen asweak By Zhou Xin and Simon Rabinovitch BEIJING, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Wang Yong, a...

SI ) said Monday its energy division has received a EUR230 million contract for the construction of a 434 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant from the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Ltd. The...

Dow Jones )- Opto Circuits (India) Ltd. (532391.BY) said Monday its U.S. unit, Criticare Systems Inc., has received an approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to make and sell its...

By Maytaal Angel LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose nearfour-month highs on Monday as investors bet on improved demandfollowing better-than-forecast jobs data in the United States,the...

Hyundai Motor's steadyclimb in the global auto industry has nurtured a strong base oflocal suppliers, and South Korean parts makers could be lookingat more business overseas after adding premium car...

Dow Jones )- Germany's nuclear power plant operators will have to pay around EUR30 billion for being allowed to run their reactors longer, first via a tax on nuclear fuel and then as contributions to...

Sept 5 (Reuters) - About 1.3 million South African publicsector workers, on strike for nearly a month, may soon return towork but continue talks on whether to accept an increasedgovernment wage...

(updates prices, adds quote) By Anirban Nag LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) - The dollar dipped on Monday andlooked set to test a 15-year low against the yen after sheddinggains made after U.S. jobs data,...

A person cycles past a damaged road near the Avon River following Saturday's powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake, in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The quake that smashed buildings,...

President Barack Obama waves to media as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off of Marine One in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP) ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Monday announced it is raising the price of admission to its Xbox Live online community where people can play videogames or watch movies using Xbox 360 consoles. ...