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BEVERLY HILLS, CA, May 28, (THEWILL) –  The House of Representatives Wednesday resolved to commence investigation into allegations of dumping of 469 tons of toxic waste materials in some communities in Delta State by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company...

A literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent. Maya Angelou died at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Wednesday, said her literary agent, Helen Brann. The 86-year-old was a novelist,...

Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar al-Assad as they crushed into Damascus's embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday to join Syrians worldwide voting early in an election that looks certain to give him a third seven-year term as...

… Recommends Quick Passage Of PIB SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, (THEWILL) – The Senate Committee on Finance which investigated the NNPC over allegations of fraud leveled against it by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, Wednesday...

An uneasy calm returned to the streets of Donetsk on Wednesday after the biggest battle of the pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine, a conflict transformed by the landslide election of a pro-European leader who vowed to crush the...

Egyptians cast their votes in a presidential election on Wednesday that is certain to install former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as president, but his call for an overwhelming mandate did not appear to have been heeded by voters. State...

Swiss food group Nestle stepped up its drive into the fast-growing skincare market on Wednesday, buying the rights to several treatments for facial lines and wrinkles from Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for $1.4 billion in cash. The world's biggest food group,...

Britain's fraud office has launched a formal criminal investigation into GlaxoSmithKline, posing a new challenge to the drugmaker, which already faces claims of bribery in China and four other countries. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said late on Tuesday that...

U.S. stock index futures edged up on Wednesday, with technicals in focus and scant key items on the U.S. economic calendar, following yet another record close on the benchmark S&P 500 index. Investors' appetite for equities continued on the back...

Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.TO) (VRX.N) raised the cash component of its offer for Botox-maker Allergan Inc (AGN.N), valuing the U.S. firm at $49.44 billion. Valeant on Wednesday offered to pay $58.30 per Allergan share in cash, about...