Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters occupied parts of central Bangkok on Monday, ratcheting up a two-month agitation to force the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and meeting no resistance.
Police and soldiers maintained a low profile as...
Israel paid homage to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the first of two funeral services being held on Monday for a man celebrated as a war hero at home but seen by many in the Arab world as...
A Canadian quest to mine for gold in the lush forests of northern Greece is testing the government's resolve to prove Europe's most ravaged economy is open again for business.
The Skouries mine on Halkidiki peninsula - a landscape of...
At least 210 people have been killed in two months of fighting between Shi'ite Muslim Houthis and ultra-conservative Sunni Salafis in northern Yemen, a Salafi spokesman said on Monday.
The violence erupted on October 30 when the Houthi rebels who...
Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Barclays (BARC.L) led European bank stocks on Monday to their highest for nearly three years after regulators watered down new rules aimed at strengthening banks but which could have limited their ability to lend.
Sunday's decision...
Suntory Holdings Ltd SUNTH.UL said on Monday it plans to buy Beam Inc (BEAM.N), paying $13.6 billion in cash for the shares to make the Japanese company the world's third-largest maker of distilled drinks.
Including the assumption of Beam's debt,...
BMW (BMWG.DE) posted the smallest gain in December sales of Germany's top three premium-car brands as the battle with Audi and Mercedes-Benz DAIGM.UL for the luxury-sales crown is heating up.
Deliveries at the luxury-sales champion rose 2.3 percent last month...
Investors looking for specifics as to the future of Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor, came away disappointed when the new CEO spent more time delivering a history of the company's past mistakes than on where it was...
Before the close of last year, I had the singular misfortune of been confronted by a longstanding friend from Gombe state who indeed wanted to validate the impressions he had about the current status of governance in Imo state...
When former President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote that there was a political watch-list, many thought the grand old man of Nigerian politics was hallucinating. But thanks to the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, we now know...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
