LONDON - European and U.S. stock markets mostly fell Thursday after a downbeat U.S. services sector survey stoked concerns about the recovery in the world's largest economy just a day before a key jobs report. In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leadin
Golf star Tiger Woods has apologised to his family, amid continuing speculation about his private life following a car crash last week. I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart, he said in a website statement
The research director at the centre of a row over climate change data said he would stand down from the post while there is an independent review.Professor Phil Jones, director of the Norwich-based University of East Anglia's (UEA) Climatic Research
General Motors said that Fritz Henderson was resigning as its chief executive immediately in a shock move that will see the ailing US government-controlled carmaker get its second new boss in less than a year. Ed Whitacre, GM’s chairman, said that h
LONDON - The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday. T
Long-serving Conservative MP Sir Patrick Cormack has announced that he will stand down at the next election.The 70-year-old said the unhappy events following the MPs' expenses scandal had made the work of politicians much more of a burden . Sir P
HONG KONG - Asian stock markets rebounded Monday from their steep fall last week after the United Arab Emirates moved to contain the fallout from Dubai's debt crisis. European markets were lower. Major Asian markets jumped about 3 percent or more af
When Abbas Hussain was recruited by GlaxoSmith-Kline’s chief executive Andrew Witty last year to head emerging markets, the idea was to shift the pharmaceutical company away from “white pills in western markets. Now, 17 months later, Mr Hussain want
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