London, Sept. 24: Gold rallied to record highs in Europe on Friday, with spot prices knocking on the door of $1,300 an ounce, as expectations grew that further quantitative easing could lead to volati

Google, Apple, Adobe Systems, Intel, Intuit and Disney's Pixar reached a settlement with the US Justice Department that bars the companies from agreeing to not poach each other's engineers and other h

Brazilian state oil company Petrobras raised $70 billion on Thursday in the world's biggest share offering, giving the company the financial muscle it needs to tap vast offshore oil reserves.

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Rome, Sept. 22: An “error of procedure” at the Vatican bank is being exploited to attack the Vatican with a money-laundering investigation, the bank’s president said in an interview published on Wedne

London, Sept. 22: Gold hit record highs for a fifth consecutive session on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve signaled it stood ready to inject fresh cash into the economy, knocking the dollar and wh

Singapore, Sept. 22: Mark Webber has yet to finish a Singapore Grand Prix but the Formula One championship leader can expect to be third time lucky this weekend as the title battle moves up a gear.

United Nations, Sept. 20: Budget-strapped rich donors will call for a rethink of strategies to make sure their aid funds are not wasted when world leaders meet this week to discuss UN goals to tackle

Social networking website Facebook denied an Internet report that it will build its own phone.

Privately held Facebook has more than 500 million users worldwide and the company already has applicatio

Brazil, Sep 17: Years after India broke into the hi-tech business with information technology and China by way of manufacturing, Brazil may find its entrance in an unusual place — a cow’s ear.

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Moscow, Sept. 17: A Russian government agency has registered the web address Putin-2012.rf in a sign Prime Minister Vladimir Putin plans to run in a presidential election he would seem almost certain