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Leading telecommunications manufacturer, Nokia yesterday announced that Ovi Life Tools, its leading emerging market information service, is now available in Nigeria - one of Africa’s fastest growing economies and the continent’s largest…

Nigeria has the potential to raise its natural gas reserves to 600 trillion cubic feet from the current 188 trillion cubic feet, a senior government official said Tuesday. The country is conducting studies on the potential gas reserves,…

Asian stock markets posted muted gains Tuesday as investors awaited the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections and the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting amid speculation over stimulus programs. Oil prices rose above $83 a barrel in Asia as…

Australia's central bank jacked up its key interest rate in a surprise move Tuesday that aims to ward off higher inflation as the nation's economy booms amid strong Asian demand for iron ore and other minerals. The Australian dollar shot…

Migrants in Europe, the United States and many other parts of the world are subjected to the worst forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia, a U.N. independent investigator said Monday. Githu Muigai, a Kenyan lawyer, said many other…

The trial opened Tuesday of the former head of leading Indian outsourcing firm Satyam, accused of staging the nation's biggest corporate fraud in a case dubbed "India's Enron". The declaration by Satyam founder and former chairman B.…

BP lifted its estimate of the likely cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill by $7.7 billion to $39.9 billion on Tuesday, pushing its profits down sharply in spite of higher oil and gas prices. BP, the world's biggest non-government…

Google Inc., pushing to expand its e-mail and cloud computing business, took the federal government to court to change a bidding process that it said stacks the deck in favor of rival Microsoft Corp. Google, which has been battling…

The Democratic Congress that enacted President Barack Obama's far-reaching health care law and plowed staggering sums into economic relief is at risk Tuesday in an election that promises to shake up the political order across the nation.…

Greek police foiled four attempted parcel bomb attacks yesterday that allegedly targeted President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and three embassies in Athens. One of the devices exploded at a delivery service, leaving a worker hospitalized…