Reading Time: < 1 minuteJapans largest brokerage house, Nomura, has appointed its first female chief financial officer in an unusual move for a top Japanese company.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOil prices have fallen on hopes that the Opec cartel of oil producers might be about to boost production for the first...
Reading Time: 2 minutesFootage from Pakistani television shows emergency workers attending the scene. The BBCs Shoaib Hasan said the attack was close to the city centre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe cabinet includes new faces in key ministries, including Nabil Elarabi as foreign minister and Maj Gen Mansour el-Essawy as interior minister.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSerbia and Kosovo are due to hold their first high-level talks since Pristina declared independence three years ago.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Japanese ship was on patrol near a disputed gas field that both countries want to exploit.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThirty-eight Zimbabweans arrested last month for discussing an Egypt-style uprising have been freed but eight remain in custody, their lawyer says.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteForces loyal to Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi have launched further air strikes on the rebel-held oil port of Ras Lanuf, in...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCancer Research UK figures say the rate rose from 88 per 100,000 in 1975 to 190 per 100,000 in 2008, the latest...
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS light crude rose by $1.95 to $106.75 a barrel, the highest since September 2008, before falling back sharply.
Reading Time: 2 minutesProtesters gather outside ministry and secret police offices in Cairo
Reading Time: 2 minutesMr Chirac is accused of paying cronies between 1977 and 1995 for city hall jobs that did not exist.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVarious footage of the incident - video up until Mr Berlusconi is taken to his car is courtesy of LInfedele
Reading Time: < 1 minutehe interim government is running Tunisia until elections scheduled to take place on 24 July.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe UN has named a former Jordanian foreign minister as its envoy to Libya, where the anti-Gaddafi revolt is now well into its...
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a joint statement, both the banks top executives, the group chairman and chief executive said the talk was speculative and presumptuous.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe state department said the security threat level was extremely high due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAll protests and marches are to be banned in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry has announced on state TV.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA small town in northern Spain has decided to reintroduce the old Spanish currency - the peseta - alongside the euro to give...
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis opinion piece was written by Dr. Nicholas Dima. Dr. Dima was formerly a Professor of Geography and...
Reading Time: 3 minutes“People expect logical consequences when they see cases of undeclared assets, conflicts of interest, protectionism or proof...
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the beginning of this month, Speaker of Parliament, Zinaida Greceanii, sent a letter to Secretary General...
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe perception of the Moldovan media was assessed in a study conducted by Magenta Consulting, with the...
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