Africa/International

Two Ghanaian languages of the Akan stock, Twi and Fante will be added to the different languages that will be printed on census forms for the United Kingdom. The UK population census to be held on March 27, 2011, will include the Twi and…

The Swiss government ordered the country's banks to block any assets belonging to the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi, marking Bern's fourth such freeze in the last month involving assets that may belong to African and Middle Eastern…

Deutsche Bank has been fined 1bn won ($887,000) after South Korea's regulators said its staff manipulated the country's stock market. The fine is the largest ever handed down by Korea's stock exchange, KRX. On Thursday, the Financial…

Oil prices have retreated from Thursday's multi-year highs amid optimism that crude producers can offset any drop in supply caused by the unrest in Libya. Brent crude was trading at $112.65 a barrel, after almost breaking through the $120…

Workers clocked up around £29bn worth of overtime at an average of seven extra hours each week, a new study has revealed. The TUC report says a unprecedented 5.26m people worked additional time for free last year - the highest number since…

Bank of England policymaker Adam Posen said on Friday that he does not expect current general inflation trends to continue beyond a few years. Posen, saying he was expressing his personal views, was speaking at a conference at the Indira…

The FTSE 100 index is seen rising on Friday, following five sessions of falls, after Wall Street managed to pare losses and Asian markets notched up gains, as a sharp pullback in the oil price alleviated concerns about the global recovery.…

Capping a decade of delays and embarrassing missteps, the Air Force on Thursday awarded one of the biggest defense contracts ever — a $35 billion deal to build nearly 200 giant airborne refueling tankers — to Chicago-based Boeing Co. over…

Unrest in Libya and the threat of contagion to other oil producing countries in the region drove Brent crude to a 29-month high above $113 on Thursday, fuelling worries about slower global growth and knocking Asian shares lower. Copper…

Sales of existing US homes rose by 2.7% in January, but prices fell to their lowest in nearly nine years, said the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The jump came despite severe weather conditions, which hit large parts of the…