Today

Small business economic confidence rebounded in October as more small business owners report economic conditions for their businesses and fo...

The 2010 ICI Meeting is a continuation of the series of international conferences in interventional cardiology held in Israel since 1995, wh...

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera listen to their national anthems during the welcoming ceremony in B...

Jeremy Ractliffe and Naomi Campbell Jeremy Ractliffe , 74, head of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund between 1995 and 1999,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Israeli naval commandos who participated in the raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last May Photo: AFP ...

ohn Key, the New Zealand prime minister, said the government had agreed to increased financial incentives for the $500-million (£315 million...

  Iraqi Deputy Premier Tareq Aziz passes a poster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the end of a press conference in Baghdad 24 November ...

The National Assembly voted 336 for and 233 against the final draft of the law, which will increase France's minimum retirement ag...

Royal Dutch Shell has radically simplified the design of the Kashagan oil development, slashing $18bn (£11.5bn) from the cost of the seco...

Wuer Kaixi, the former Chinese student leader, will represent Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident, at a meeting of Nobel Peace ...

  Americans who embraced 'hope and change' two years ago are now rejecting the change they were given Photo: REUTERS "Both Pre...

Supporters of Rand Paul, a Tea Party backed politician, stomped on the head of a liberal activist during a debate between senate candidat...

Heads of government are expected to endorse a new blueprint for the nine-year war Photo: REUTERS Mr Gorba...

Protestors took to the streets of New Zealand earlier this week Two movies based on The Hobbit will be filmed in New Zealand as plan...

Virgin Media is set to turn up the dial on its cable network, offering users speeds of up to 100Mbps (megabits per second). It aims...

Some 13% of birds qualify for inclusion on the Red List One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, ...

The risk goes up the taller the man Taller men may have a higher risk of getting testicular cancer, say experts in the United Stat...

Sales of new homes remain subdued thanks to a glut of repossessed houses on the market Sales of new homes in the US rose 6.6% in Sept...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico....

At least 60 people have been killed after part of a building collapsed on guests at a wedding in northern Afghanistan, officials say.

Israeli police have clashed with Arab demonstrators in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, where Israeli right-wing activists staged a protest...

Students protested in Paris on Tuesday but numbers were down France's National Assembly has voted to raise pension age by two ...

The death toll from a tsunami in western Indonesia rises to 272, officials say, as doubts emerge about whether an early warning system was ...

South Africa's Cape Town Opera has turned down an appeal from Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to call off a tour of Isr...

The UK airline industry has backed British Airways chairman Martin Broughton's call for changes to airport security checks.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fuelling violence in Mexico....

VALE, N.C. – Fierce winds demolished three homes and injured 11 people in North Carolina and tornado watches were issued across the Southea...

DILI (AFP) – A jade elephant rears majestically in the corner as patrons tuck into their burgers and fries at one of only three US-style fas...

TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto voters on Monday elected conservative Rob Ford as mayor of Canada's biggest city, tilting away from their re...

AFP – In a handout photograph released by the Vice President's Office, Indonesian Vice President Boediono … by Bayu Ismoyo Bayu Ism...

AP – In this file photo taken Thursday, July 8, 2010 Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula is se...

AP – FILE - This image made from video broadcast on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2001 shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed … By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF, Ass...

AP – FILE - In this June 22, 2009 file photo, Argentina's former president Nestor Kirchner gestures at a campaign … By MICHAEL WARREN, ...

Compugen 2010 third quarter net loss decreases to $1.6 million from $1.9 million Genmab begins Phase III head to head study of ofatumumab vs...

(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, OCTOBER 26 - Greek Premier George Papandreou "has shown his cards" and launched "a dramatic warning"...

Mikhail Yuhanna ( Arabic : ميخائيل يوحنا; Mīḫāʾīl Yūḥannā ) ‎, later and more popularly known as Tariq Aziz or Tareq Aziz ( Arabic : طار...

By Kerri Shannon , Associate Editor , Money Morning Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX) ann...

AP – FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 file photo, Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy … By HAMID AHMED and BARBARA ...

Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor (AP) Obama appoints record numb...

Lindsay Dee Lohan is an actress and singer but is better known for her personal troubles rather than her professional career. The freckled b...

Things seem to be getting serious between Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez: The duo made their red-carpet debut together at Sat...

How Karzai got bags of Iranian cash Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan acknowledged Monday he has received c...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's high tribunal on Tuesday passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, one of late dictator Saddam Hussein's mo...

Mexican federal police investigate the shootings at a Tijuana rehab facility on Sunday, October 24. Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican ...

She was one of the 'big six' supermodels of the 90s - as well as a writer and scholar. Christy Turlington Burns has been at the fore...

Canadian Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, has pleaded guilty to all five terror charges against him at a war crimes trib...

A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%. Research published online in the jour...

Iran says the launch of its first reactor is a victory over its enemies. Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear pow...

The BBC's Laura Trevelyan: Haitians now fear the river that sustained them Tens of thousands of people in Haiti are still threatened by...

President Sarkozy is hoping the parliament vote will quell the protests French students will stage protests on Tuesday to try to bo...

The alleged frauds involve billions of naira Senior politicians and businessmen are among more than 100 people listed by Nigerian ant...

The documents published on WikiLeaks give an insight into some of the most chilling events of the war in Iraq. Photo / AP The documents p...

Founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, during a London press conference at the weekend. Photo / AP WASHINGTON - When WikiLeaks ...

THIRTEEN retirees were shot and killed late Sunday in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation centre near the border ci...

INDONESIA ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi yesterday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to r...

HAITIAN health officials worked Monday to contain a cholera epidemic after statistics showed new infections had begun to taper off while the...

THE European Union brought Serbia a crucial step closer to joining its 27-member bloc on Monday, despite Belgrade's failure to arrest th...

Hungary is a Failed State. Over. Extinct Hungary’s been abused for centuries and survived. Never...