Lebanon has begun removing political posters and party banners from neighborhoods of the capital in a move to unify a country still divided from a civil war, following an agreement between the militant and political group Hezbollah and its...
The crew of a twin-propeller TransAsia plane faced a problem with one engine but restarted the other, investigators said on Friday, as it emerged the plane suffered a lack of thrust before crashing into a river in Taipei, killing...
U.S. stocks were set to advance at the open on Friday, putting the S&P 500 on track to extend its best weekly gain in seven, after a stronger-than-expected monthly payrolls report.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 257,000 last month, topping expectations for...
EBay Inc (EBAY.O) raised its reported fourth-quarter net income by $87 million to reflect a reduction in income tax expense.
The e-commerce company said the reduction of tax was due to an intercompany transaction that took place in December.
After adjustment,...
German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz said on Friday sales jumped 14 percent in January to a record 125,865 models, powered by double-digit gains in Europe, China and the United States.
Daimler's (DAIGn.DE) flagship division posted 14.5 percent sales increases in each...
SAN FRANCISCO, February 06, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will meet with chairmen and secretaries of all registered political parties this Saturday before it will make public its final decision on whether the general...
It is the season of recycling. The twilight of next month's general elections - including the presidential election is flushing out failed politicians from their hideout to make a last ditched effort at positioning for plum offices that could...
When the shadow of a tree is bent, you don't aim to straighten the shadow, you go for the tree and the leave the shadow...
The much talked about February is upon us, finally we are simply counting down the...
Charles Soludo’s contemporaries say that, as an undergraduate, he came up with this rather fine slogan: Soludo is the solution, when he vainly contested for the secretary-generalship of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Students’ Union. In 2010, he again...
There is no doubt that Prime Minister Netanyahu's acceptance of House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to address a joint session of Congress on Iran is extraordinarily damaging to Israel-US relations. The damage, however, transcends the bilateral relations as it...