Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qaeda No 2, said in a new message on a militant website yesterday that Barack Obama was “the direct opposite of honourable black Americans” like Malcolm X, and called him a “house negro”...
After rising to dizzying heights this summer, the oil market is suffering a hair-raising drop with no apparent end in sight...
Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has come to the rescue of Citigroup with a much-needed cash injection today...
First-time filings for unemployment benefits shot up to their highest level since July 1992 last week, rising 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 and punctuating the struggling state of the U.S. labor market, government data showed Thursday...
Russian steelmaker OAO Severstal on Tuesday said third-quarter earnings more than tripled but cautioned that it is cutting output in half because of reduced demand...
Focus Magazine has recently published an interview with Hans-Henning Schroeder, the chairman of the research group for Russia at the Berlin-based Institute for International and Security Affairs...
Foreign investment in Russia fell 13.8%, year-on-year, in January-September to $75.8 bln while accrued foreign capital rose 27% from a year ago to $251.3 bln, the country's top statistics body said on Wednesday...
