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Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter ended talks to buy postal flower service Flying Brands after failing to agree a price.
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India's Jet Airways has reversed course and abandoned plans to lay-off 1,900 workers after high profile protests and threats of greater unrest stoked by powerful labour unions and politicians
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World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy says there is not enough consensus to resume world trade talks this year.
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The Crown prosecutor's office in Edmonton plans to seek dangerous offender status for convicted killer Thomas Svekla, which could keep him behind bars indefinitely.
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Alberta wildlife officers have shot a female grizzly bear that killed a hunter near Sundre, Alta., last week and are now looking for her three large cubs.
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McCain attacks Obama on Bill Ayers; Obama slams McCain's mortgage proposal and healthcare tax credit.
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A controversial plan to introduce parking fees for residents was rejected yesterday following one of the largest consultations ever planned by Glasgow City Council.
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World financial leaders met to quell market stress and strengthen institutions.
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Verizon told companies that send out text messages that starting Nov. 1 it will impose a fee of 3 cents for each message it delivers to the phones of its subscribers.
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This was disclosed by Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan. As he said, Ukraine announced plans to stop electric power exports to Poland since November.
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Apple invites analysts and the press to a laptop-related announcement next Tuesday.
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As he prepares to retire after the Phillies’ postseason run, Gillick, 71, will leave a legacy of small ego and big success.
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Sydney aims to bid for rights to host the Australia Open from 2016.
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Check out the latest footage from TGS!
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Check out the latest footage from TGS!
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Capcom gives an overview of it's latest monster hunting installment, this time for the Nintendo Wii.
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Capcom gives an overview of it's latest monster hunting installment, this time for the Nintendo Wii.
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David Tye and Andrew Wilson, the chairman and chief executive of listed property group Rugby Estates, are wooing leading shareholders over a plan to raise £100m in fresh equity.
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Richard Gere and Diane Lane first co-starred together in 1984, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club. This was in the actor's heyday, the period of American Gigolo, when Gere's narcissism was at its most unrestrained, and its most interesting. No leading man has been so unconcerned whether we liked him or not. And it did the trick: we couldn't take our eyes off him. As for the film, like much of Coppola's work it was troubled in the making, in execution flawed, ambitious, innately cinematic.
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As he prepares to retire after the Phillies’ postseason run, Pat Gillick, 71, will leave a legacy of small ego and big success.
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The U.S. military is planning a large polling and focus-group operation in Iraq over the next three years to help "build robust and positive relations with the people of Iraq and to assist the Iraqi people in forming a new government," according to a proposal seeking private contractors for the...
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Britain will launch its biggest retail bank rescue on Monday when the four largest — HBOS, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and Barclays — ask for a combined $60.5 billion lifeline, the Sunday Times reported.
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Texas grabbed some second-half momentum by foiling a fake punt Saturday, then Colt McCoy and the defense built on it, carrying the No. 5 Longhorns to a 45-35 victory over No. 1 Oklahoma.
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TWO years after his emotional departure, the reality of it all finally hit home for Trent Barrett on Wednesday when he pulled on a predominantly blue polo shirt.
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THE US government pushes on with plans to buy stakes in banks, as the G7 pledges to act urgently on crisis.
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According to Hyundai Motors India, Managing Director, H S Lheem, they need to establish a completely fresh press line to meet the increasing demand of its premium hatchback 'i10'. This investment will also support the production of the proposed Hyundai
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NATO defense ministers have agreed to send seven warships this month to help combat piracy off Somalia, as attacks on vessels in Horn of Africa waters spiral, an alliance spokesman said. "Ministers agreed that NATO should play a role. NATO
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Major British banks are likely to announce their plans to recapitalise early on Monday, a move which could see the government take multi-billion pound stakes in several lenders.
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Toomebridge's Michael Laverty fails to finish both races in the final round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch on Sunday.
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Top executives from RBS, HBOS, Lloyds TSB and Barclays were locked in talks with the government on Sunday in a frantic attempt to hammer out details of a capital increase likely to be worth tens of billions of pounds before the markets reopen on Monday
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NEGOTIATIONS for the Australian Open to remain in Melbourne beyond 2016 are well-advanced despite Sydney's interest in poaching the event, an industry source said.
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Major British banks likely to announce plans to recapitalize on Monday, a person familiar with the matter said, a move that could see the government take multi-billion pound stakes in several.
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Sri Lanka government is currently mulling to increase the standard fixed rate of water bills to mini..
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Few men are required to go into the wilderness these days to get food for Sunday dinner. But it seems they can't shed their hunter-like tendencies when it comes to the Internet, according to Canadian researchers.
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Islanders RW Trent Hunter scored on the power play goal Saturday against the Blues with 6:13 left in the first period. Hunter's drive from inside the blue line found its way between Chris Mason's pads and trickled in. He took three shots in 17:48 of ice time and finished at even.
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Foes say the proposed interpretive center is too big and would require destruction of too many trees. Backers see a way to introduce working-class families to nature. Even those who love the Whittier Narrows wildlife sanctuary concede that it suffers from a down-at-the-heels look. Invasive plants have elbowed out native species and, as one county official observed, the interpretive center resembles a Depression-era shack.
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Plans for a new cricket league encompassing all eleven senior teams in Jersey and Guernsey are set to be discussed.
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