President Barack Obama, in a major foreign policy speech in Berlin on Wednesday, is set to make the case for a new phase in nuclear weapons reductions, according to senior U.S. officials briefed on the plans. Read more ...
Young adults overwhelmingly value health insurance and don't believe they are too healthy to need it, according to survey data published Wednesday. The findings of the poll by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation could have significant implications for the prospects of President Barack Obama's health care reform law. Read more ...
The UK government has “interfered” in the running of the part-nationalised banks in a manner that is “clearly not acceptable”, a parliamentary review has concluded. Read more ...
The criteria used to assess the success of Jobcentre Plus in helping people find work are "flawed", MPs say [...] Read more ...
By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, June 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will buy Taurus bunker-busting long-range missiles for its F-15K strike fighters in a move to boost its attacking power against North Korea, the state procurement agency said Wednesday. Read more ...
Jozy Altidore was the hero for the United States, cooly slotting a left-footed shot to hand the Stars & Stripes a 1-0 victory over Honduras. Read more ...
A report claims schools are facing increasing pressure to spend money aimed at very poor pupils, known as the pupil premium, to plug holes in their budgets. Read more ...
Michelle Meyer discusses five hot housing topics namely, lumber prices, mortgage rates, declining average household size, supply of rentals & recovering [...] Read more ...
The scheme covers 635 industrial companies and some public buildings that account for about 40 percent of the city's carbon emissions,the Shenzhen carbon trade exchange said in a statement t. Experts and government officials hailed the pilot schemes as a landmark step for China in building a nationwide carbon emission trading market t. Read more ...
(Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co on Tuesday said it will seek court approval for a $406 million rights offering that could give creditors a big equity stake in the company after it emerges from Chapter 11 [...] Read more ...
Britain’s banking bosses should face jail if their decisions force fresh bailouts, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards says today. Read more ...
Donald Trump hasn't licensed his name for a U.S. real-estate project since before the financial downturn. But he has done so for more than a dozen real-estate developments outside the U.S. Read more ...
Senior bankers should face a criminal offence of 'reckless misconduct' under a toughened sanctions regime for failures at UK banks, according to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. The Commission's long-awaited 571-page report also criticises UK governments for “clearly not acceptable” interference in the running of part-national [...] Read more ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged a “thorough cleanup” of the ruling Communist Party as part of a yearlong campaign aimed at ridding its ranks of formalism, bureaucracy and extravagance. Read more ...
Commission led by Andrew Tyrie recommends jailing bankers for 'reckless misconduct' and enforcing a wait for bonuses [...] Read more ...
Around £500million of European taxpayers' money donated to Egypt to fight corruption has disappeared, according to a report by EU auditors. Read more ...
With grand ambitions to become the world’s design store, Fab has raised the first part of a Series D funding round that looks to add a large flow of cash to the company’s efforts. Read more ...
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings. Read more ...
Whoopi Goldberg descended into laughing madness on Tuesday's "View." The impetus for the nearly minute-long laughing fit was the news that some Christian groups have been comparing Superman to Jesus. Read more ...
Reader Peter Frank recommends this Spiegel analysis of the proposed US-EU free trade agreement, which contains estimates that such a deal would cost Australia 52,000 jobs and result in 7.4% decline in Australia's per capita income. Peter writes:Interesting analysis of impacts of EU/US free trade agreement; not in the least in terms of the anticipat [...] Read more ...
Two-year-old design website Fab is now worth more than $1 billion, thanks to a $150 million venture-capital round led in part by Chinese Internet conglomerate Tencent Holdings. Read more ...
The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations Tuesday agreed on a set of proposals to tackle tax avoidance and evasion that call for countries to change laws to stop companies from shifting profits across borders and paying less tax. Read more ...
Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese property developer, says it will spend £1bn ($1.6bn) to buy a British yacht maker and property in London. Read more ...
The corporate sector's appetite for temporary staff hasn't translated into big gains for ManpowerGroup: CEO Jeffrey A. Joerres blames conditions in Europe and cites his decision to hold the line on prices. Read more ...
If there is going to be a significant and extended recovery in the global economy, it will need to continue forming in the second half of this year and solidify in 2014 [...] Read more ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve policymakers will likely announce on Wednesday that they will keep buying bonds at a monthly pace of $85 billion, while keeping their options open to scale back the [...] Read more ...
Global insurers have been participating in the Indian insurance market for nearly 12 years. We may soon see the trend reversing. Read more ...
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The presence of thousands of brothels and hundreds of thousands of prostitutes has heightened competition and pushed prices down steeply in the German sex trade. Read more ...
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Paul Krugman thinks the European Union's incantations about the need for structural reform are a distraction from their failure to manage aggregate demand appropriately. I think it's worse than that. The European Central Bank's tight money policies are actually a leading impediment to structural reform. Think about something like the [...] Read more ...
House Speaker John Boehner’s right wing is acting up again. First, hard-line conservatives failed in a January coup against the Ohio Republican. Then they tried to force a special meeting on immigration reform — but GOP leaders beat them to the punch. Now, fearful of a capitulation on immigration and fiscal issues, they want to force Boehner [...] Read more ...
The independent Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday its score of the Senate’s bipartisan immigration bill, providing even more evidence that commonsense immigration reform is good for the budget and good for economic growth, the White House said. According to the White House, CBO estimates [...] Read more ...
BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean negotiator has arrived at China's Foreign Ministry for strategic talks following a rough patch in relations between the communist allies and Pyongyang's surprise weekend call for dialogue with the U.S. Read more ...
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(New York) – The Chinese government, under the rationale of a campaign to improve rural living standards, has sent more than 20,000 officials and communist party cadres to Tibetan villages to undertake intrusive surveillance of people, carry out widespread political re-education, and estab [...] Read more ...
The government-appointed monitor overseeing mortgage practices as part of last year’s robo-signing settlement between five big U.S. banks and dozens of government agencies found few violations after grading the banks’ compliance with ambitious new standards, according to court documents filed Tuesday. The finding of just three audited failures [...] Read more ...
