Greek lawmakers approved the country’s 2013 austerity budget early on Monday, an essential step in Greece’s efforts to persuade its international...

The Chinese government’s main sovereign wealth fund has said it has bought a 10 percent stake in the operator of London’s Heathrow Airport, expanding...

For the first time since the 11 September terror attacks, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq suspended all trading on Monday as the US...

Toyota is shrugging off a sales plunge in China set off by a territorial dispute and says it is headed to a record year on the back of strong growth...

Chinese investors evaded government controls to move than $600 billion out of the country last year and the outflow is increasing, fueling economic...

Prosecutors say three British Muslim men accused of plotting a mass casualty attack were recorded discussing how to make bombs more deadly and...

Vast crowds of Muslim pilgrims flocked to Mount Arafat on Thursday to perform the main hajj rites, with those from Arab Spring states praying...

An attorney for Tom Cruise says he has filed a USD 50 million defamation lawsuit against the publishers of Life & Style magazine for articles that...

A Japanese man fended off strong competition from an Indian to secure a date with a 20-year-old Brazilian student, who sold her virginity for a USD...

Police in a heavily Tibetan region of far west China are offering tipsters a reward of USD 7,700 for information about planned self-immolations in a...

One-fifth of Canada’s population speak a language other than the country’s two official languages - English or French - at home, with Punjabi, Hindi...

The European Union’s executive arm formally accused Microsoft of failing to comply with a binding agreement to give customers a choice among Internet...