Frozen food supermarket Iceland and toy emporium Hamleys are to be sold by failed Icelandic bank Landsbanki, according to reports.The bank will put its...
Fine Gael is expected to press European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso for a reduction in the interest rate on Ireland's international bailout funds.Party...
France's top constitutional watchdog has ruled that laws prohibiting gay marriage do not violate the constitution, and noted that parliament was free to make...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed the ratification of a nuclear arms cut pact with the United States, the centrepiece of US President Barack...
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital, the country's surgeon general said.V J Ramlakan said there was no need to...
How did the elephants cross the road? They went underneath it.Elephants have begun using Africa's first dedicated elephant underpass in Kenya - a unique...
Pubs chain Marston's offered more evidence that Britons deserted the kitchen in favour of eating out over Christmas and new year.The owner of Tavern...
Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, has disappointed investors after it missed sales targets and said profits will take a knock as it ramps...
The FTSE 100 Index tracked Asian markets lower as investors reacted to lacklustre earnings in America and a credit-rating downgrade for Japan.There was also...
Sarah Palin issued a scathing response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, alluding to a popular internet slang to describe what...