With the price of oil around $128 a barrel Friday, traders on Wall Street busied themselves selling off...

US citizens believe the country is in...

The annual Brussels Economic Forum conference has been looking at ways to meet the economic challenges facing the...

US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke has said banks and securities firms will need to keep raising capital to improve their balance sheet following credit...

Wildly fluctuating prices have closed Malawi's tobacco commodity auction...

Australia's Reserve Bank has said the country's economy will only grow at a slower pace in the next couple of...

United Airlines and Continental Airlines in the US have been in talks for a possible...

Impoverished borrowers in Africa and Asia will soon be able to receive so-called “tiny loans” from the World Bank and British-based bank Standard...

There was a lower turnover in Singapore restaurants after the Lunar New Year celebration, dropping the country’s catering figures to US$289.2 million....

German fashion label, Hugo Boss has a new...

Germany's President Horst Koehler has described the world’s banking system as “a monster that must be tamed”....

After a long dispute, Microsoft has agreed to offer Windows for the computers of 'One Laptop Per Child' (OLPC) educational project for children in developing...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn officially launched a proxy fight to oust the Yahoo board in a bid to revive Microsoft's spurned deal for the Internet...

In 2005 it reduced the number of clampings it carried out from 50,000 to 15,000 virtually overnight, realising that what had previously been an effective deterrent had become outdated.Now, in common...

Two positive signals in the housing industry – higher construction permits and improved builder confidence – suggested yesterday that the market is not moving inexorably in a downward...

NEW YORK — The stock market notched its second straight daily advance Thursday, with investors assuaged by a pullback in oil prices and some better-than-expected economic data. The Dow Jones...

LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures edged up on Friday, suggesting a positive start to trade on Wall Street ahead of data on housing and consumer...

La Valencia, the historic La Jolla hotel known as the Pink Lady, could end up being left at the altar by its current suitor. The credit crunch has made it difficult for American Property...

said Friday that its annual net profit more than doubled as it cut costs to help offset record high fuel prices while the group offered its first dividend in seven...

Wall Street has been worried about cash-strapped consumers paring back their spending, so it was pleased that the energy markets gave up early gains that briefly drove crude oil above $125 per...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States should cut barriers to its markets to help it tackle economic turmoil, and boost exports to deal with its current account deficit, the World Trade Organisation...

Microsoft Corp. and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) will make the Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC's low-cost XO laptops for the world's poorest children. Through this agreement,...

Microsoft Corp. 's unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have a few weeks to persuade the software maker to revive its last offer of $47.5 billion, or risk being fired in a shareholder mutiny led...

Madlen Read May 16, 2008 - 08:24 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street headed for a modestly higher open Friday as investors watched oil prices hit a new record high and awaited data on new home...

All BusinessWire news WHX Corporation (OTC: WXCP) ("WHX" or the "Company") today announced financial results for the first quarter of 2008. WHX reported a net loss of $6.2 million, on sales of...

Other markets in the region including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore rose, but were off their highs, while South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines were little changed. China also reversed gains on...

Department store stalwarts J.C. Penney Co., Nordstrom Inc. and Kohl's Inc. all reported steep drops in first-quarter profits as Americans snub apparel to focus on basic necessities at discounters...

HVLL , a provider of health insurance plans for domestic pets, today announced financial results for the Company's three month period ended March 31, 2008. As of March 31, 2008, the number of...

For John Willis, who runs an East Patchogue contracting business excavating and installing cesspools, Suffolk's new law requiring him to report the immigration status of his employees is a redundant...

LONDON - Oil rebounded above $125 a barrel on Friday, driven higher by a weaker dollar and a bullish market for distillate fuels as China and Europe scramble for diesel amid thin global...

It found the proportion of music fans regularly paying for downloads fell from 16% in 2006 to 14% by the end of 2007.The study showed 28% had paid to download music at least once but that only 22%...

) said Friday that its fiscal first-quarter net income rose to $62.1 million, or 69 cents a share, from $60.1 million, or 65 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. The New Albany, Ohio,...

MANILA, Philippines -- Microsoft Philippines will sponsor an open source summit in Cebu next month and this early, the software giant is bracing itself for lively discussions about openXML and the...

part one of this article, I demonstrated how you could retrieve data and save it into XML using Microsoft Access and MSXML. In this article I am going to show you how you can add new data to a Web2...

SHANGHAI, China - Cracked dams and buckled roads, collapsed buildings and toppled factories — China has begun tallying losses from the calamitous earthquake that struck earlier this week, with...

All Associated Press news LONDON (AP) - British Airways said Friday it will pay a dividend for the first time in seven years after reporting its full-year profits more than doubled.The carriers...

All PR Newswire news Posts Record Quarterly Revenues, Return to Profitability SHENZHEN, China, May 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Diguang International Development Co., Ltd. (OTC Bulletin...

Research ) reported a threefold increase in fourth-quarter profit, rebounding from massive losses at its consumer finance unit a year earlier, and it forecast modest growth...

David Davies with Shelley and Daniel The dead man's father, Tony Davies, said that his son must have fallen asleep on the train and woken up at Barnehurst having missed his Bexleyheath stop.He...

May 16, 2008 - 07:43 a.m. NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) - Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch said Friday that its first-quarter earnings rose 3 percent from a year ago on stronger sales. Abercrombie...

All PR Newswire news SAO PAULO, Brazil, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tempo Participacoes S.A. (Bovespa: TEMP3; Reuters: TEMP3.SA; Bloomberg: TEMP3 BZ), a leading provider of healthcare...

Sonny paralysed from chest down Sonny Wells, 20, is pictured lying in a hospital bed hooked up to machines after a "moment of madness" when he jumped from South Parade Pier in Southsea,...

The boy is taken from his kindergarten Rescuers cut away a huge slab of concrete and lifted it up to reveal the fragile child curled up in a cavity underneath.They covered the boy's eyes and...

All PR Newswire news HARBIN, China, May 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Education Alliance, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CEUA) (''China Education Alliance'' or ''the Company''), a leading...

Rice prices have fallen after the prospect of exports from Pakistan and Japan eased fears of a global shortage of the staple grain. Pakistan, the world's fifth-biggest exporter, said it would...

Nuclear power company British Energy says it has received several takeover proposals from interested parties. The firm added that some proposals included offers above Thursday's closing share...

The number of people facing bankruptcy has fallen compared with a year ago, says the Ministry of Justice. One type of bankruptcy petition filed with the courts in England and Wales fell by 15%...

US sales of video game consoles and software were up 47% in April from a year before, fuelled by the release of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV. Strong demand for Nintendo's Wii also saw helped the...

Plane maker Airbus and diversified manufacturer Honeywell International said yesterday that they are developing a biofuel that by 2030 could satisfy nearly one-third of the worldwide demand from...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project and Microsoft plan to make both Windows and Linux available on a version of the project's XO laptop, the companies said Thursday. The parties expect to deliver...