The London market has held firm despite continued uncertainty in Egypt and lacklustre trading on Wall Street due to disappointing corporate earnings.The FTSE 100...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has ordered UK ambassadors around the world to raise concerns about the detention of four British men in Eritrea.The captives...
Technology giants Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces to create smartphones that might challenge rivals such as Apple and Google and revive their own...
A leading human rights activist has called for an immediate investigation of reports that guards deliberately killed dozens of inmates at an Egyptian prison...
Hidden among dense underbrush on an Austrian hillside, a "great-great grandparent" of one of the world's most popular white wines survived wars, winters and...
An online campaign to gather photos of Chinese children begging on the streets is pressuring authorities to crack down on gangs that kidnap children...
Protesters enraged by Hosni Mubarak's latest refusal to step down streamed into Cairo's central square and took positions outside key symbols of the hated...
