Conditions are ideal to put part of your savings overseas and secure real returns, writes <b>Gareth Stokes</b>.
Lance Armstrong on Thursday dismissed accusations of doping levelled against him by disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be in the political spotlight in Washington on Tuesday, as energy giant BP scrambles to contain the spill.
Call for regulator to halt sale of iPhones, iPads and iPods in the US as fight between Apple and HTC grows increasingly acrimonious.
A late self-portrait by "pope of pop" Andy Warhol sold for a record $32,5-million at Sotheby’s in New York on Wednesday.
BP engineers desperately explored options on Sunday to control oil gushing from a ruptured well deep under the Gulf of Mexico.
Senior White House officials believe Times Square car bomb was the work of a Pakistani Taliban group, rather than a "lone wolf" attacker.
The US military is experimenting with aromatherapy, acupuncture and other unorthodox methods to treat soldiers traumatised by combat experiences.
BP has suffered a setback in an attempt to contain oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico with a metal dome when crystallised gas filled the structure.
President Barack Obama said on Friday that regulators would look for ways to prevent a repeat of Thursday’s mysterious stock market meltdown.
For fishermen whose livelihoods are threatened by the oil leak, the offer of jobs by energy giant BP to help clean up the spill
The United States said this week it is trying to promote a new type of trade, where Africa will add more value to its own raw materials.
The oil gushing unchecked from an undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico could permanently scar coastal lands and bring down some energy companies.
US authorities were still questioning a Pakistani-American man on Wednesday, who they say admitted trying to bomb New York’s Times Square.
The actor Lynn Redgrave has died, her family said. She was 67. Her publicist Rick Miramontez said Redgrave died on Sunday night.
A man of Pakistani origin has been arrested on suspicion he bought the vehicle used in the failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square last weekend.
Tony Hayward meets United States politicians and regulators as criticism of oil giant’s reaction to well blow-out mounts.
Investigators combed through security video and other evidence on Monday in the hunt for suspects in a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.
US authorities are investigating a thwarted car bombing in New York’s famed Times Square where thousands of people gather each day and night.
Police tipped off by a street vendor defused a car bomb on Times Square in New York on Saturday that could have turned into a "deadly event".
High winds and rough seas hampered efforts on Saturday to prevent an oil slick from reaching US shores and wreaking enormous environmental damage.
An apparent failed car bomb in a vehicle that was smoking and emitted a small "flash" caused police to evacuate New York’s Times Square on Saturday.
Sadly, there is no cure for megalomania. But venture capitalists ought to start funding the search for a cure, because it’s costing a lot of money.
Comparisons with the response to Hurricane Katrina are already being made, but the spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not a political albatross — yet.
An oil slick from a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach a wildlife reserve at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Thursday.
Experts have thrown a spanner in the works, questioning its efficacy in fighting climate change.
Hopes are high that a study of a broad-based preventative approach will dramatically reduce prevalence among particularly vulnerable miners.
Woods’ golf rehabilitation continues on Thursday at the Quail Hollow Championship, three weeks after he ended a five-month hiatus from the game.
We’ll never know what difference US participation in an arms trafficking treaty might have made thanks to the gun lobbies, argues Bernd Debusmann.
Republicans hung together on Tuesday and again thwarted Democratic efforts to start formal debate on legislation to rein in Wall Street excesses.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on Tuesday faced a blistering cross-examination from US lawmakers about the company’s behaviour toward its clients.
The United States extradited former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France on Monday to face money-laundering charges.