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Nigeria's government has proposed a 4.2 trillion naira budget for 2011, most of it for recurrent expenditure, based on an assumed benchmark oil price of $62 a barrel, a presidency source said on Tuesday. President Goodluck Jonathan is due…

The House of Lords on Tuesday approved government plans to nearly triple tuition fees paid by university students. The unelected assembly voted to raise student fees at English universities to a maximum of 9,000 pounds a year, backing a…

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday offered only a cautious nod to the economy's improving prospects as it put a spotlight on lofty unemployment and reaffirmed its commitment to buy $600 billion in bonds. In a statement that emphasized job…

Asian shares were sluggish Wednesday as deteriorating sentiment among Japanese companies offset solid U.S. retail sales figures. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average fell 3.81 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 10,312.96. The central bank's…

Ending nearly two weeks of suspense, a 64-year-old substitute teacher and single parent from Arizona claimed a $95.3 million Powerball jackpot. Sheila Verke, a Fort Mohave resident, presented the single-winning ticket to lottery officials…

The majority of the nation's sparsely populated rural counties lost even more residents in the last decade, though some of the counties — particularly those in the Mountain West — saw population gains that may be the result of retirees…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a target of U.S. ire for releasing secret cables, returned to a London jail on Tuesday pending an appeal over a decision to free him on 200,000 pound bail for alleged sex crimes. British judge Howard…

The Air Force is barring its personnel from using work computers to view the Web sites of The New York Times and more than 25 other news organizations and blogs that have posted secret cables obtained by WikiLeaks, Air Force officials said…

Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced closer economic relations between Ghana and Turkey in the coming years. “Our relations dates back to 1958, but due to some strange happenings, that relationship ended in 1981, but I…

The Union of Private Security Employees, Ghana (UPSEG) on Tuesday called on the government to establish a Private Security Regulatory Council to regulate the activities of the private security sector. Nana Kofi Adu II, General Secretary of…