Yuri Kolobov Madrid---Spanish police on Wednesday detained Ukraine's former finance minister Yuri Kolobov who is wanted by Kiev for alleged fraud and theft...
Yuri Kolobov Madrid---Spanish police on Wednesday detained Ukraine's former finance minister Yuri Kolobov who is wanted by Kiev for alleged fraud and theft...
Washington---The US economy continued to grow at a fairly moderate rate in recent weeks, despite severe winter weather in some regions, according to...
San Francisco---Sony was at a major game developers gathering Wednesday showing off a prototype of "Morpheus" virtual reality head gear set for release...
Washington---The World Bank said Wednesday it would reform the way it handles the resettlement of people moved to make way for development projects,...
Brussels---EU member states on Wednesday delayed abolishing mobile phone roaming charges from the end of this year until at least 2018, but insisted...
Paris--French nuclear group Areva confirmed Wednesday record net losses in 2014 of 4.8 billion euros ($5.3 billion) after it was forced to absorb...
Harare---A team from the International Monetary Fund team leading efforts to re-engage Zimbabwe said on Wednesday it will "assess" whether the country has...
San Francisco--Chinese online giant Alibaba will open a data center in Silicon Valley, it said Wednesday, challenging US rival Amazon in the field...
The Hague---Leading Dutch bank ING on Tuesday said it will sell 45.6 million shares in the Voya group, ending its stake in its...
Hong Kong, China--Bosses at Standard Chartered have given up their bonuses after profits at the Asia-focused bank fell by more than a third...
Sydney---Australia's economy remained soft in the fourth quarter of 2014 as growth continued to be driven by exports, data showed Wednesday, fuelling expectations...
Brasília--Industrial production in Brazil fell 5.2 percent in January compared with the same month last year, despite a two percent rise for the...
Sofia--Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Wednesday his country would seek to join Azerbaijan's new Southern Corridor to transit Caspian gas to...
New York--US oil giant ExxonMobil said Wednesday it would reduce investment spending by nearly 12 percent this year in response to lower crude-oil...
Washington--The US economy's service sector sped up very slightly in February despite the West Coast port slowdown and harsh weather in the east,...
Ottawa--The Bank of Canada maintained its key lending rate at 0.75 percent on Wednesday, saying the worst of a shock of plummeting oil...
Warsaw--Poland's central bank on Wednesday slashed its key interest rate by half a percentage point to a record low 1.5 percent as it...
Washington--US private-sector firms hired new staff at a modest pace in February but the previous two months were much better than previously reported,...