Africa/International

China's inflation edged higher in August as the nation's worst flooding in a decade drove an increase in food costs and industrial growth continued to quicken. Consumer prices rose 3.5 percent in August compared with a year earlier, the…

Regulators on Friday shut down a small Florida bank, bringing to 119 the number of U.S. bank failures this year amid mounting loan defaults. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over Horizon Bank, based in Bradenton, Fla., with $187.8…

German stocks led European markets modestly lower Friday following reports that Deutsche Bank AG is planning to raise as much as euro9 billion ($11.4 billion) to lift its stake in Deutsche Postbank AG and shore up its capital base. In…

Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, brought in Microsoft's Stephen Elop to replace its embattled chief executive and lead a renewed effort to compete in the smartphone market. Canadian Elop, the head of Microsoft's business division,…

A Dutch history student has unearthed the world's oldest share, dating back to 1606 and issued by the sea trading firm Dutch East India Company. Locked away in forgotten city archives, the share was made out to Pieter Harmensz, a male…

In a skirmish between two Internet heavy hitters with a tangled relationship, eBay Inc. has convinced a court that it was wronged by antitakeover moves adopted by Craigslist after eBay started encroaching on its online classifieds turf in…

A firm handshake and brisk walk could be indicators of a longer life expectancy. Skip related content. Scientists at the Medical Research Council analysed the results of 33 studies into the link between the ability to carry out simple…

The Mexican police officers who arrested infamous drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," did not initially know who they had caught, according to a booking report obtained Thursday. The Mexican government has depicted…

Rising prices for a wide range of agricultural commodities are stirring fears of global food-driven inflation, but there should be no repeat of the crisis seen in 2007/08 unless governments start to panic. Analysts cite much higher global…

A group of scientists have established for the first time that ‘orange’ maize, a new variety of maize, is a good source of vitamin A, which means that it is a variety bred to improve nutrition and could provide vitamin A through the diet to…