The bronze miniature of French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s most famous sculpture, ”The Thinker,” which was recovered from the debris of the World Trade Towers, has disappeared, officials said on Monday.
Fears of war and a spiraling confidence crisis in Corporate America pummelled the broad stock market to an 8-month low on Thursday.
Evidence against men tried in the bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 shows that al-Qaeda has made eastern Africa an important base.
Leaders of nine African nations and scores of high-ranking world diplomats will meet next week to discuss the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an ambitious plan created by Africans to advance economic development.
New York police have arrested a Catholic missionary priest from Kenya on charges of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy.
An analysis of communication from the World Trade Center after the twin towers were attacked on September 11 shows that most of those who died were on the upper floors of the towers.
In a stock market darkened by a troubled economy and accounting scandals, one investment still shines: gold shares.
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It’s an unlikely African art market: a Manhattan storage depot; but over 15 years dozens of art dealers have transformed these dusty steel cages into the home of a thriving daily art fair.
A better-than-expected report on the US labour market on Friday indicates the economy is poised for modest growth ahead and is likely to avoid a slide back into recession.
Fitch Ratings said the merger between South African Breweries and Phillip Morris Companies will have a minimal impact on the latter?s credit profile.
Ten days after the end of recovery operations at the site of the World Trade Center, construction workers are still finding the remains of September 11 victims in buildings adjacent to Ground Zero.
Children as young as 11 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, where they are coerced into human rights abuses including mass executions, an in-depth report showed on Tuesday.
Telecommunications giant WorldCom — faced with a mountain of debt and a growing scandal over accounting irregularities that caused the company’s stock to collapse — filed on Sunday for bankruptcy protection.
New York’s shattered financial district is hoping a combination of low tax, high art and corporate charity will throw a lifeline to local businesses.
Software giant Microsoft, hoping to attract holiday season shoppers, on Tuesday will debut a wireless keyboard and mouse combination, including a device that could link computers to multiple electronic devices without using cables.
Detectives on the trail of ,7-million in stolen Versace jewellery thought they had a break in the case when they got a warrant to search a Manhattan storage room – only to find a cheap, ratty green recliner.
CNN began airing excerpts on Sunday from a cache of videotapes acquired in Afghanistan that purport to show al-Qaida terror training, bomb-making and poison gas experiments on dogs.
The huge drop in crime in New York City over the past few years has intrigued law enforcement agencies around the world. Behind the progress is political will, and an ingenious tool: CompStat.
A US federal court began preliminary hearings on Friday into a multibillion-dollar lawsuit brought by South African apartheid victims against a host of multinational corporations and banks.