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Russia said Wednesday it was preparing fresh measures to boost its economy as President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to try to take advantage of an anticipated fall in prices.
Oil prices wavered near three-year lows as investors weighed falling global demand and a government report showing an unexpected decline in U.S. crude inventories. » BLOG: South Bay business news
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of the Bank of New York Mellon rose Wednesday, maintaining gains even as the broader market turned negative, following an upgrade from Ladenburg Thalmann's Richard Bove to "Buy."
NEW DELHI - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that Pakistan has a "special responsibility" to cooperate with the investigation into the deadly Mumbai attacks.
Russia said Wednesday it was preparing fresh measures to boost its economy as President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to try to take advantage of an anticipated fall in prices.
The NATO secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, strongly defended the alliance?s decision to begin ?a conditional and graduated reengagement? with Moscow.
The Silk Road - it makes us think of faraway places and exotic people and ancient times. Colin Thubron has written many travel books about the Middle East and Russia and Asia as well as number of novels.
People desperate for a cure should not believe everything they believe on Web sites promoting stem-cell cures, experts say.
Yesterday afternoon, the Daily Transom received an emailed invite for a cocktail party taking place on Thurs., Dec. 5 to "celebrate the holidays" with Harvey Weinstein 's online community A Small World (a.k.a. Facebook for millionaires) and the luxury diamond brand Leviev at the brand's Madison Avenue boutique.The email's subject line was, "Socials Buck the Recession with Champagne & ...
MOSCOW -- Moscow Police Chief Dan Weaver says the current rough economy may mean that a proposed city-county joint law enforcement building will have to wait.
NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers should be wary of Web sites from clinics that offer stem cell treatments, says a study that found a lack of firm medical evidence to back up their claims.
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Scores of nations began signing a treaty banning cluster bombs today in a move that supporters hope will shame the U.S., Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians.
Wed, Dec 3, 2008 (10:33 a.m.) Afghanistan unexpectedly joined dozens of nations signing a treaty banning cluster bombs in an effort that supporters hope will shame the U.S., Russia and China and other non-signers into abandoning weapons blamed for maiming and killing civilians.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will refuse to sell carbon- emissions credits to other nations, removing the biggest single pool of licenses to release greenhouse gases under the Kyoto climate treaty from the market, a government official said.
In a report recently published by European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), an ESF's expert committee, urged stronger public funding of space sciences and space exploration programmes.
By Brian Hoops, president, Midwest Market Solutions, Inc. Corn closed the week of Oct. 31 $.28-3/4 higher. The weekly export sales report showed net sales of 413,100 MT were down 48 percent from the previous week and 50 percent from the prior four-week average.
INDIANAPOLIS - Hundreds of Idaho FFA members gathered at this year’s National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. The convention is the highlight of the year for FFA members, evidenced by 40,000 plus students filling the convention arena with enthusiasm and excitement.
LIMA, Peru - President George W. Bush enlisted another bloc of world leaders Sunday in his effort to revive the world economy while still moving to expand free trade.
Some 100 nations began putting their names Wednesday to a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs, amid calls for major arms producers such as China, Russia and the United States to join them.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Oil prices wavered near three-year lows as investors weighed falling global demand and a government report showing an unexpected decline in U.S. crude inventories.
BISMARCK, N.D. - Armed with a tractor or a backhoe, Alvin Peterson moves dirt to drain prairie potholes on his land, saying he’s putting the land back to the way God intended.
