Tata Steel slips after announcing $1.6 billion goodwill impairment charge

MUMBAI Shares of Tata Steel drifted lower in the red on Tuesday after it announced it will write off goodwill ...

Australia-born Mossad spy supplied secrets to Hezbollah: Report

MELBOURNE Australian-Israeli Mossad agent Ben Zygier, who was found dead in a Tel Aviv jail, had passed secrets including the ...

Integration is the key to happiness

By Pradip Rodrigues Many South Asians  mistakenly assume that only black, brown and other so-called visible minorities can be victims ...

EU leaders agree to $1.3 trillion budget

BRUSSELS European Union leaders have reached a deal on 960-billion euro (USD 1.3 trillion) budget for the next seven years, ...

A possible 680 soccer matches fixed according to an investigation

LONDON Soccer is known throughout much of the world as the beautiful game. But the sport’s ugliest side – the ...

Cameron promises Britons referendum on EU membership

LONDON Prime Minister David Cameron promised Britons a far-reaching referendum within five years on membership in the European Union – ...

David Cameron promises Britons a referendum on EU membership

LONDON Prime Minister David Cameron promised Britons a far-reaching referendum within five years on membership in the European Union — ...

Italian PM Mario Monti resigns ahead of elections

ROME Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti resigned with his political plans still in doubt, paving the way for early elections ...

EU committed to keeping the peace

OSLO The EU needs to work hard to ensure peace is kept as the continent faces up to its biggest ...

Mario Monti calls time after restoring credibility to Italy

ROME Mario Monti, who announced on Saturday that he intended to resign after just over a year as Italy‘s prime ...

Asin, who?

While holidaying in Greece, a fashion photographer requested Asin to pose for him not knowing who she was!  Asin was ...

European leaders seek Asian support on debt crisis

VIENTIANE Dozens of European and Asian leaders will gather in impoverished Laos today for a major summit set to be ...

First brown refugees commemorate 40 years in Canada

MISSISSAUGA Forty years ago this month the first non-European refugees arrived in Canada. Through October, in communities across the country, ...

China PMI data lifts European shares, oil

NEW DELHI Signs of stabilisation in China‘s slowing economy helped lift European shares on Wednesday, though gains were kept in ...

Chinese pro-establishment writer Mo Yan wins 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature

STOCKHOLM Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a somewhat unexpected choice by a prize ...

Iran’s top leader says European countries supporting sanctions are foolish

TEHRAN Iran‘s top leader has said that European countries are “foolish” to support sanctions against Tehran, telling them they are ...

Global economic slowdown is worsening, warns IMF

TOKYO  The IMF said the global economic slowdown is worsening as it cut its growth forecasts for the second time ...