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.
New York City’s sexual subcultures will have an official address on Saturday when the first Museum of Sex opens its doors to the curious, the voyeurs, the scholars and those who want to educate themselves of centuries of sexual underworld.
At least 38-million people in Africa are threatened by hunger, caused mostly by a drought that is extending from the Horn of Africa to the southern part of the continent, warns the World Food Programme.
David Emil’s ‘Windows on the World’ was touted as the world’s most lucrative restaurant before the terrorist strikes of September 11 brought it crashing down 107 floors.
Against a backdrop of promised peace in Africa and possible war in the Gulf, President George Bush on Friday met with leaders of 11 African nations, many in the thick of that continent’s oil production.
CNN and CBS both paid for videotapes that depict al-Qaida poison gas experiments, but insisted that the money didn’t go to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organisation.
In a new book, New York’s former fire commissioner describes a department ”in complete disarray” on September 11, with many top officials missing and its people at the World Trade Center knowing less than television viewers.
In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor.
A group of private sector financial players on Tuesday laid out a new plan to combat Argentina-style meltdowns in emerging economies.
Watching television on September 11 could seriously damage your health, warn recent scientific studies.
Despite stock market woes that cost him -billion this year, Microsoft boss Bill Gates remains the richest person in the United States.
A conservative Jewish group in New York said on Monday it planned to put armed patrols on the streets to guard against possible terrorist attacks.
Stocks climbed on Thursday, boosted by strong orders for durable goods and a federal panel’s approval of a new key drug of Biogen Inc.