In a deal that would create one of the world’s largest gold producers, the board of Lihir Gold of Papua New Guinea recommended Tuesday that its shareholders agree to a sweetened $8.8 billion takeover offer from Newcrest Mining of Australia.
Flights in parts of Britain and Ireland have been grounded after a new ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland were detected. Last month, an ash cloud forced parts of Europe´s airspace to close for several days.
In a decision ripe with symbolism about access to justice in the age of terror, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that visitors to its courthouse will no longer be allowed to enter through the front door.
As soon as he arrived at the San Diego Correctional Facility, Francisco Castaneda complained of a medical problem. Despite advice from three specialists who recommended a biopsy of the lesion on Castaneda´s penis, U.S. Public Health Service doctors called the procedure "elective" and refused to approve it.
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro has agreed to buy a majority stake in the aluminium operations of Brazilian miner Vale.
A top German Euro MP has called for a Europe-wide ban on wearing the Islamic full-body veil, or burka, in public.
Restrictions lead firms to lobby doctors for blessing of products.
Radical Islamist insurgents in Somalia seized one of the country’s most notorious pirate dens on Sunday, raising questions about whether rebels with connections to Al Qaeda will now have a pipeline to tens of millions of dollars — and a new ability to threaten global trade.
United Airlines and Continental Airlines on Monday announced a $3 billion merger that would create the world’s biggest airline.
Viewers of Thai soap operas now have a choice: they can follow the overdramatized acting and weepy plot lines of shows like “The Glass Around the Diamond” or they can read progovernment political messages scrolling on the bottom of the television screen.
When the regent of this coastal rice-growing region on the island of Java first toured China as part of an official delegation, his eyes went wide.
The Labour Party says it expects the Government to back off the prospect of mining on Great Barrier Island and in Coromandel in the wake of one of the biggest protest marches in New Zealand´s recent history.
Emboldened by his party’s electoral success, the president of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region is intensifying his demands for greater sovereignty and control of oil, adding more complexity to an already tumultuous government formation period.
Ending a long silence, Roman Polanski addressed his possible extradition to the United States over a 33-year-old sex-crime case with a statement that accused authorities here of “trying to serve me on a platter to the media of the world,” instead of honoring what he described as an agreement, made decades ago, to limit his punishment to time already served.
Amnesty International has condemned the Brazilian Supreme Court´s blocking of a reinterpretation of a 1979 Amnesty Law that protects members of the former military government from being put on trial for extrajudicial killings, torture and rape.
The European Union, which includes the nuclear powers France and Britain, goes into the major United Nations conference reviewing nuclear nonproliferation on Monday having failed to unite on how to reduce its nuclear weapons.
There are a lot of uncertainties right now about the Gulf oil spill. But one thing is clear: In addition to the intangible loss of wildlife, it´s going to cost BP a lot of money.
The car bomb discovered in Times Square would probably have killed or maimed many people, police officials and federal investigators said Sunday as they began assembling evidence collected from the homemade device, video surveillance footage and the vehicle itself to determine who attempted the attack on a warm spring evening in the heart of New York City.
French senator Charles Pasqua has been given a one-year suspended jail sentence for corruption while he was interior minister in the 1990s.
In a seeming rejection of liberal orthodoxy, President Obama has spoken disparagingly about liberal victories before the Supreme Court in the 1960s and 1970s — suggesting that justices made the “error” of overstepping their bounds and trampling on the role of elected officials.
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