Africa/International

Facebook is expected to launch a new messaging system seen as a challenge to Google's Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. The giant social network - which boasts more than 500 million users worldwide - will host a special event in San Francisco on…

Oil rebounded above $85 a barrel on Monday after falling sharply from a more than two-year high last week as risk appetite improved and investors looked beyond Irish debt worries to better fuel demand fundamentals. U.S. crude rose 53 cents…

Britain's global influence is not in decline but the country must repair its economy quickly to remain a leading actor on the world stage, Prime Minister David Cameron will say Monday. Just back from a trip to China and a G20 summit in…

China needs to step up structural reforms to stimulate domestic demand as the global economic recovery remains anaemic, the Xinhua news agency quoted Vice Premier Li Keqiang as saying. "The global economy is still facing great…

Pressure eased slightly on Ireland early Monday ahead of meetings in Brussels this week to consider whether a bailout is needed to prevent market turbulence from spreading to other European countries. The Irish government continued to…

Less than 10 percent of the articles written about last year's Copenhagen climate summit dealt primarily with the science of climate change, a study showed on Monday. Based on analysis of 400 articles written about the December 2009…

The Pay TV industry has heatedly debated this fall whether consumers are dropping their cable or other TV subscriptions to watch more TV content online. A new study by Nielsen, commissioned by the Cable & Telecommunications Association…

Nigeria's military threatened on Saturday to carry out raids against what it said were camps of criminal gangs in the creeks of the oil-producing Niger Delta, and told civilians in the vicinity to leave. Any major offensive by the armed…

European officials on Friday scrambled to ease a brewing market panic over financial troubles in Ireland, Portugal and Spain, as speculation mounted that one or more of those nations may be forced to follow in the footsteps of nearly…

China will speed up exports of rare earth minerals to Japan, the Japanese trade minister said Saturday, following complaints from Tokyo that shipments were stalled amid a territorial row. Trade minister Akihiro Ohata said that Zhang Ping,…