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Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, injured scores of others and raised fears of a fresh wave of terror attacks.
President Obama's West Point speech announcing his long-awaited decision on Afghanistan sent mixed messages that raise more questions about his Administration's commitment to success than they answered.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG , emerging from the biggest corruption scandal in German corporate history, reached a settlement with managers including two former chief executive officers accused of failing to halt a culture of bribery.
DECEMBER 2, 2009 -- Kazakhtelecom and Cisco, in collaboration with the AMT Group, say that JSC Kazakhtelecom has deployed a Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) based on Cisco optical networking and routing technologies to create an IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) architecture.
Chechen rebels claimed responsibility Wednesday for blowing up a high-speed Russian train last week, an attack that killed 26 people, injured scores of others and raised fears of a fresh wave of terror attacks.
Russia called Wednesday for renewed cooperation with the West on European security, two days ahead of the resumption of high-level talks between Moscow and NATO.
Angelos EfrosContributing Writer The Young Americans was started in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson as a choral group in Hollywood, Calif. Nearly 50 years later, the Young Americans consists of 270 performers. Each year they travel the world, teaching confidence through a love of music and performing. These tours, known as The Music Outreach Tours, consist of 40 Young Americans. They travel to an ...
(AP:AMSTERDAM) Shares in loss-making Dutch luxury car maker Spyker rose 20 percent on Wednesday after the company said it is "interested" in General Motors' troubled Saab division.
ANDREW E. KRAMER Shareholders in the former Yukos oil company, which was disbanded by the Russian government, will be able to seek monetary damages from the Russian government.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho - Idaho’s dry edible bean growers can look back at generally strong prices during 2008, officials said. Contracts for pink and red beans ran to $40 per hundredweight sack, while contracts for pinto beans ran to $38 per sack.
Vienna - The man who stabbed to death former boxing world champion Edip Sekowitsch in Vienna was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to 20 years behind bars. The 50-year-old victim, born as Edip Secovic in Serbia, was one of Austria's most succe...
Multiple police agencies worked together Wednesday to capture six Chinese illegal aliens after a daylong search.
Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency rebuke of Tehran's nuclear program and expressed displeasure with those U.N. member countries that voted in favor of it.
Dubai World is the state-run conglomerate which is largely responsible for transforming the small desert emirate of Dubai into a playground of the super-rich. That just made the shock all the greater last week when the company announced it is asking creditors for a standstill on repayment of billions of dollars in debt. The total owed to investors is estimated at some $59 billion.
Here are undervalued China stocks that should perform well in the new year.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Dubai’s debt crisis won’t impair Georgia’s long-term plans to attract investment from the Persian Gulf region as the former Soviet republic attempts to rebuild an economy buffeted by a war with Russia and the global slump.
The Associated Press is partnering with other international news organizations on an online hub where readers can interact with journalists covering the climate talks opening next week in Copenhagen.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Dmitry Medvedev will oversee the signing of an agreement between OAO Gazprom, Eni SpA and Electricite de France SA on the South Stream natural-gas pipeline and meet Pope Benedict XVI in Rome tomorrow.
Agence France-Presse and 10 other news agencies have formed a coalition seeking to engage readers around the world through blogs and Twitter messages during the Copenhagen climate summit which starts Monday.
European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama's speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming Wednesday with pledges of fresh troops.
Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s United Co. Rusal signed a $17 billion accord with creditors in Russia’s biggest corporate restructuring, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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