Anti-government militants renewed their offensive against the Egyptian security forces on Wednesday, killing one senior interior ministry official and a civilian and injuring at least seven others in ...

Gold rose on Monday to around $1,100 per ounce after the dollar edged down, helping bullion come off a one-month low hit in the previous session when commodities dipped on President Barack Obama's ...

Britain's medium-sized companies are outperforming both smaller and larger businesses and are one of the overlooked success stories of the economic recovery, research has found. Their numbers have ...

The Swiss face a confrontation with Brussels after voting for quotas on immigrants from the EU, - in a foretaste of tensions that could be unleashed if Britain votes to leave the union. Viviane Reding ...

The name Google picked for its first foray into online shopping spoke volumes about its intentions: Froogle. Users could look at a selection of items based on price or other factors. The search ...

Her Majesty may not have discussed military hardware as she treated Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan - president of the United Arab Emirates and emir of Abu Dhabi - to a carriage ride through ...

Rio Tinto has given up trying to sell its lossmaking Pacific Aluminium subsidiary in a sign of the tough market conditions facing mining groups trying to offload underperforming assets during an ...

Before 2010, margin financing was not officially authorised in mainland Chinese stock markets, although it occurred informally on a small scale. The China Securities Regulatory Commission launched a ...

Controversial proposals to allow retirement savers the right to sell their annuities for cash have received a boost after one of the country's leading insurers said the idea "has potential". Standard ...

Millions of UK households are to receive more gas sourced from Russian state-controlled energy group Gazprom after Centrica, owner of British Gas, signed a deal to buy greater volumes from the Russian ...

But they have also created some unlikely winners and losers across the region, from Mickey Mouse to pickled cabbage. The widening of South Korea's kimchi deficit - whereby the country imported more of ...

Ed Miliband has tried to deflect business criticism of Labour by claiming that the Conservatives are keeping open a City tax loophole because they are financially dependent on "Mayfair hedge funds".