Forces loyal to Col. Muammar Gaddafi began an all-out assault on the strategic refinery town of Ras Lanuf on Wednesday in an attempt to dislodge rebels who have held the town for several days.

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Moscow, Jan. 28: Exxon Mobil once was poised to acquire a stake in Russia’s largest private oil company, only to have the deal fall apart when the Kremlin arrested the owner and the company went bankr

San Francisco, Jan. 16: Astrologers, not surprisingly, say they knew this would happen.

But that didn’t stop a furious response among horoscope fans on Friday, as news shot around cyberspace that th

New York, Jan. 16: It was an unusual commission, unlike anything that Mr Stuart Silk, a Seattle architect, had been offered in his quarter-century of practice: design three high-end custom homes for c

New York, Jan. 16: People who can take a hunk of wood or lump of clay and fashion something fantastic with their bare hands have powers of creation that we don’t quite understand. But we have found a

Las Vegas, Dec. 27: Miles away from the glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, past foreclosed homes and dusty tracts of desert, Wall Street bond powerhouse, Mr Cantor Fitzgerald, has placed millions of doll

Siruseri, Dec. 28: A massive futuristic office complex is rising from a patch of spare, arid land here near Chennai. Six butterfly-shaped buildings dock like spacecraft to two long metal-latticed term

Washington, Dec. 26: The US drug enforcement administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organisation with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation

New York, Dec. 26: A 47-year-old woman was in critical condition after her leg got trapped in an elevator shaft at a Brooklyn hospital on Saturday because of an elevator malfunction, officials said.

New york, Dec. 26: Now that the market has risen, investors are becoming optimistic again about stocks. There are many signs of this. The American Association of Individual Investors, for example, rep