OPEC was meeting on Tuesday to consider a Saudi proposal to raise oil output in a gesture to consumer nations worried by the economic impact of $77 oil and rapidly diminishing stocks.
Relatives of Sept. 11 victims bowed their heads in silence Tuesday to mark the moments exactly six years earlier when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The dreary skies created a grim backdrop, and a sharp contrast to the clear blue of that morning in 2001.
Kate and Gerry McCann face being stopped from paying their mounting legal bills out of the £1 million of public donations to the campaign to find their missing daughter.
The celebrity divorce of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills has ousted terrorism and human rights as the top legal story of the year, a survey shows.
Investors offload their shares as inflation in China soars to an 11-year high on a surge in the country´s food prices.
Supermarkets should be banned from offering customers free parking and goods sold below cost price, a Conservative policy group is to suggest.
Gordon Brown attempted to stamp his authority on the Labour movement yesterday as he told trade union leaders that he would not give in to their demands for higher public sector pay or an end to staged pay settlements.
Nawaz Sharif, a Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister, was arrested here today and flown to Saudi Arabia after he arrived here intent on leading an effort to oust the current president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
The feds are renewing threats of jail for those who hire illegals. But while the latest rules stir fear, there´s little hope for enforcement or reform.
The parents of Madeleine McCann felt compelled to make an impassioned declaration of their innocence yesterday, as they returned to Britain under a darkening cloud of suspicion.
LEADING bankers are warning of the worst crisis in the money markets for 20 years, which will come to a head this week when $113 billion (£57 billion) of commercial paper – market IOUs – comes up for refinancing.
Ministers are considering proposals to prosecute men for buying sex in a new effort to curb the demand for prostitution, the Guardian has learned.
German politicians called for tougher anti-terrorism measures and immigration rules on Thursday after police said they had foiled a plot by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks.
Photographer Larry Birkhead, who was proved in April to be the biological father of former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith´s daughter, said Tuesday he will sue the author and publisher of a new book on Smith´s death that contains allegations he called "pure fiction."
Famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who appeared on stage with singers as varied as opera star Dame Joan Sutherland, U2´s Bono and Liza Minnelli, died Thursday in Italy after suffering from pancreatic cancer, manager Terri Robson said in a statement. He was 71.
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian billionaire, is taking legal action after being blocked from buying a majority shareholding in one’s of Europe’s largest infrastructure companies.
Peter Lewis, the bank´s openly gay former head of global equities, prepares to resume his discrimination battle.
Japan and Australia plan to strengthen bilateral cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear power, with Tokyo poised to secure a stable supply of uranium from the world´s biggest uranium reserves holder, Japanese sources said Tuesday.
Since April, the murder trial of music producer Phil Spector has been playing out in Los Angeles, California, oddly contrasting gruesome CSI details with the defendant´s daily fashion emergency.
Attorneys for the oil giant insist accident that killed 15 and injured 170 others was not the result of gross negligence.
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