BERLIN - German industrial orders posted their first drop for six months in October, falling 2.1 percent, as the pace of recovery in Europe's biggest economy slackened, the government said on Monday. The fall, adjusted for inflation and seasonal ef
ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguay named an undocumented U.S. immigrant to run its consulate in New York, discovering his illegal status only when the man returned home to get his diplomatic papers and was denied a U.S. visa. Paraguay's foreign ministry
Plans for the Post Office to start offering financial products have been outlined by the government.There will now be a public consultation on the plans, which include offering access to accounts from every one of the Post Office's 11,500 branches.
MILAN - A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday. The error meant customers using Post Office cards to make a cash withdrawals or payme
The Washington Post is closing the last domestic bureaux it had outside its home town, in a tacit admission that it will no longer attempt to compete with the few US titles attempting to be national newspapers. The one-time home of Bob Woodward and
England rugby union defence coach Mike Ford has distanced himself from the vacant position in charge of the national rugby league side.The former Castleford and Wakefield scrum-half has been linked with the role recently vacated by Tony Smith but wi
BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday congratulated the European Union for creating the new posts of president and foreign policy chief, calling it a step forward for EU integration. At a summit in Brussels, European leaders named Belgia
LONDON - An MP, charged with probing expense claims of colleagues, quit his position as a newspaper Friday raised allegations about his own expenses worth thousands of pounds. Conservative party MP David Curry claimed almost 30,000 pounds from the
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