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Construction of all the main London 2012 Olympic venues is on track, but the deadlines for the aquatics centre and part of the athletes' village are becoming tight, Britain's spending watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Elizabeth Taylor's medical condition is improving, but the Hollywood film legend will remain hospitalized for the foreseeable future under the close care of doctors, her spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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Toyota Motor Corp and group firm Daihatsu will build a low cost car for Asian and other emerging markets, the Nikkei business daily reported on Wednesday.
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Tourists visiting Hollywood will get a paparazzi eye view of celebrity hot spots on a bus tour run with tabloid-style news outfit TMZ, the company said on Tuesday.
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Deutsche Boerse faces a long, hard struggle to get approvals from a host of regulators for its USD 10.2-billion takeover of NYSE Euronext to form the world's largest exchange operator.
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Dell Inc's quarterly earnings and margins blew past Wall Street expectations as component costs slid and corporations replaced aging technology, propelling its shares 6% higher.
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Barcelona revive their entertaining rivalry with Arsenal on Wednesday in the first leg their Champions League last 16 tie that will showcase two of the most technically gifted and attractive sides in world soccer.
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Unitech | Tata Tele | M&M | GMR Infra | Opto Circuits | Andhra Bank | Advanta | Ashapura Minechem | M&M Fin and Archies are stocks, which are in the news today.
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Tata Steel, that plans to sell its UK-based Teesside Cast Products (TCP) plant for USD 500-million, hopes to close the deal by early next fiscal, a top company official said.
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Wide differences between rich and developing countries may frustrate France's hope of taking a bold step towards stabilising the global economy at a Group of 20 finance ministers meeting this week.
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The World Bank today called for a localised power generation and distribution model, using primarily the renewable energy sources, to bring power to the 56 per cent of the rural populace who do not have electricity connection in their homes as yet.
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10.25 to 12.50: The market will move equally strongly on both the sides and even a momentary lapse of attention will ensure that you will not be able to make a fast buck.
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Iranian drama "Nader and Simin: A Separation", a moving family saga and absorbing crime thriller rolled into one, lit up the Berlin film festival on Tuesday and became the movie to beat for the coveted Golden Bear award.
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CBI today questioned the top officials of some telecom companies, including Managing Director of Unitech Sanjay Chandra, in connection with its probe into 2G scam and some of them were confronted with arrested former Telecom Minister A Raja.
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The Egyptian military today constituted a panel of legal experts, including a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, to suggest amendments to the Mubarak-era constitution while firing two top security officials for their handling of the anti-regime protests.
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Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, who delivered a passionate speech at her funeral, has announced his engagement to a Canadian charity worker.
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Cocoberry, a chain of premium frozen yogurt, has planned major expansion over the next couple of years and is also planning to get its shares listed on a stock exchange, the company said today.
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Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, US researchers said on Tuesday.
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Tata Steel said its margins would remain under pressure due to rising raw material prices, adding that it was in talks with Rio Tinto to ensure coal supplies from Africa-focused miner Riversdale.
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World leaders have so far failed to give the necessary impetus to a new trade deal and agreement in the long-running Doha round is far from certain, former WTO Director-General Peter Sutherland said on Tuesday.
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World Bank chief Robert Zoellick on Tuesday said global food prices have reached dangerous levels that could complicate fragile political and social conditions in the Middle East, and warned that their impact also bears watching across Central Asia.
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China, Syria and others face a dictator's dilemma over Internet control and risk being left behind as the rest of the world embraces new technologies, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.
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32 bills including the controversial Press and Registration of Books and Publications bill as also the Land Acquisition (Amendment) bill will be introduced in Parliament during the Budget session beginning February 21.
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SBI's Rs 1,000-crore maiden bond issue was snapped up by the market in October 2010.
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President Barack Obama warned Republicans on Tuesday against making symbolic cuts in spending that could damage the fragile US economic recovery.
