Tennis officials reacted with disappointment on Wednesday to Andre Agassi's revelation that he had used a banned drug and then lied about it to avoid a ban.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the award-winning composer and producer of more than a dozen musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied Thursday that payments to the Taliban in Afghanistan were authorized to protect Italian soldiers deployed there.
Rupert Murdoch's News International, which plans to begin charging for online content, said Thursday it was to close its free London newspaper as part of cost-cutting measures.
The headline in Tuesday's Times of London stating that the "Credit crunch has ended" might have been missed during the furore over the expenses of Britain's elected officials.
Tennis officials reacted with disappointment on Wednesday to Andre Agassi's revelation that he had used a banned drug and then lied about it to avoid a ban.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, the award-winning composer and producer of more than a dozen musicals including "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied Thursday that payments to the Taliban in Afghanistan were authorized to protect Italian soldiers deployed there.
Rupert Murdoch's News International, which plans to begin charging for online content, said Thursday it was to close its free London newspaper as part of cost-cutting measures.
The headline in Tuesday's Times of London stating that the "Credit crunch has ended" might have been missed during the furore over the expenses of Britain's elected officials.
The news on the housing market continues to be bleak as bleak can be. In just one example, the January numbers from the Case-Shiller index -- a popular collection of data about repeat sales of single-family homes -- show that home values in Phoenix are down almost 50 percent from their peak in July 2006.
Google's ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine's camera car from photographing their homes.
A page of history has been turned and a tsunami of goodwill is rumbling across the Atlantic to the Pacific, from pole to pole and across our many continents.
Around the world, media reaction to the Democrats' victory has poured in, as newspapers and broadcasters reflect on the Barack Obama campaign and the global impact his win will have.
Sen. Barack Obama didn't know his aunt might be living illegally in the United States, as media outlets are reporting, and his campaign will return contributions she made, an aide said Saturday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told The Times of London that the 4,100 British troops in southern Iraq are no longer necessary to provide security
Nick Faldo's players and his American counterpart Paul Azinger leapt to his defense on Monday in the wake of a string of unfavorable headlines after his European team lost the Ryder Cup.
Eight months after Amanda Knox was charged with the murder of her British roommate, disappearing from public view, the American exchange student is still the talk of the nation
History in the making was how many international newspapers viewed Barack Obama's emergence as Democratic presidential candidate, with the focus on his status as the first ever African-American to win the ticket.
The Times of London calls C.K. Prahalad "the No. 1 most influential management thinker in the world." I wouldn't argue. And he's about to contribute another important idea to business.
Lewis Hamilton is set to become Britain's highest paid sportsman after reports he is close to inking a $20 million personal sponsorship deal with Reebok.
DNA testing has confirmed that Josef Fritzl, who police say confessed to holding his daughter hostage in underground rooms for more than two decades, fathered seven children with her, an Austrian law enforcement official said Tuesday.
A Web site that encourages girls as young as seven to give virtual dolls breast implants and put them on crash diets has caused concern among parents and children's activists.
Saudi Arabia has asked florists and gift shops to remove all red items until after Valentine's Day, calling the celebration of such a holiday a sin, local media reported Monday.
Italian police have identified a fourth suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy after linking him to a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.
Investigators probing the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy say they have identified a new suspect in the case after discovering a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene of the crime.
A Pennsylvania teen jailed on suspicion of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his old school exchanged e-mail with the disturbed student who killed eight people in a similar shooting in Finland, the boy's lawyer said Monday.
Major indexes turned narrowly mixed Monday following last week's brutal selloff, as investors weighed lower oil prices and persistent credit market fears.
Applicants to the Mile-High Club, whose members claim amorous encounters at altitude, could be forgiven for having their excitement aroused by the prospect of a ride on the first A380 superjumbo passenger jet.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts denied a report by the Times of London saying that the private equity firm has put its $1.25 billion initial public offering on hold.
A powerful branch of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. and the Wall Street Journal, is set to vote against selling the company to News Corp., according to a report Friday.
An initial probe of a Brazilian plane crash that killed nearly 200 people suggests the airliner's pilot tried to abort a landing, an official said Wednesday.
BHP Billiton Ltd, the world's biggest miner, is in talks with private equity firms to team up for a possible $40 billion bid for U.S. aluminum company Alcoa Inc, the Times of London said on Tuesday.
Mobile phone operator O2, part of Spanish telecoms group Telefonica, is poised to clinch a deal to be the exclusive network partner for Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the UK, newspapers said Thursday.
Virgin Media said Monday it has received a takeover offer, but the British cable company, whose largest investor is Richard Branson, declined to name the bidder and said it isn't negotiating about a possible buyout.
Stocks ticked up in early trade Monday as Wall Street mulled corporate news from the aircraft and mining sectors, lower oil and gains in overseas markets.
At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."
Want to test drive Microsoft's new Windows Live Search engine, which launches with great fanfare Tuesday? Run a search for "Microsoft" and "Ricky Gervais" and see what you get.
Tuesday afternoon Carl Icahn, investor/agitator, will hold a press conference at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan, where he will present his case to boost Time Warner's stock price and release a voluminous report by his allies at Lazard Freres on the state of that company.
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE ANYTHING geekier--more supremely uncool--than a number puzzle. And yet people the world over are furrowing their brows over Sudoku. The game that has had Britain in its grip fo...
On reviewing my published columns, I find a glaring omission. It's been all money, no sex. I was reminded of this oversight by a report that the most popular face and figure on the Internet belongs...
Savvy stock jockeys around the globe are exploring the implications of what's been taking place on the international merger front recently. Global firms are buying up American brand names like nobo...
Like baseball, football, and snooker players before them, chess pros are learning the value of entrepreneurship. Led by Russian world champion Gary Kasparov, they have formed a breakaway associatio...
We rated Halloween this year weirder than any other October 31 in history. This time, one was suddenly aware of large numbers of people, mostly but not entirely women, who were solemnly proclaiming...
Warm, smart, and strikingly beautiful, Anna Torv Murdoch, 42, is one of her husband's most important assets. In a company not known for its humanity, she adds a significant human touch. When he din...
Schoolmasters face widespread sexual harassment from classroom ''Lolitas,'' according to a report . . . by Britain's second biggest teaching union. The survey . . . says that 45% of the male teache...
An American mania for mystery is most conspicuous these days in the solve-it- yourself whodunits staged everywhere from hotels and cruise ships to corporate meetings. But it's the printed page that...
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