Institutions that try to sell their stakes in venture capital funds are likely get less than 60 cents on the dollar.

Relatives of Kenyans killed in a church burnt down in election violence a year ago protest at burial plans.

Barack Obama is to join President George W Bush and the other three living ex-presidents for a special White House lunch.

Bank of America sold part of its holding in China Construction Bank, sending shares in China’s big banks skidding.

A British poll reports that financial heredity may come from the mother.

I started listening to most of this music in the early 1990s, as I was finishing the first of what would be three long novels about revolutionary events a long time ago in a small obscure place that few people in the United States had heard of and fewer cared about. What's different now? At least a few more people are aware that Haiti, and the conditions of living in Haiti, are closer to us here than we used to like to think. ...

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Casey B. Mulligan is an economist at the University of Chicago. After Lehman failed and "credit markets froze" in the second half of September 2008, many people proclaimed that a second Great Depression would unfold. In hindsight, we readily see that at least one of the purported pathways to depression was never followed. During the first [...].

Prices of fruit and vegetables start to rise in some Indian cities as a nationwide strike by lorry drivers enters a third day.

Charting President Bush's approval ratings

German unemployment levels rose for the first time in nearly three years in December, according to government figures.

Analysts predict that the environmental credentials of technology products will become a major factor in their success.

How MI5 keeps shedding some light on its work

Israel halts military operations in Gaza for three hours in the first of planned daily suspensions, it says, as ceasefire calls mount.

Skin cancer patients have a higher chance of developing other forms of the disease, research suggests.

Rescuers in Guatemala call off their search for bodies and any survivors of a massive landslide that killed at least 34 people.

As the pricing dispute escalated on Wednesday, the cutoff showed the first signs of hitting the European economy.

As the city’s demographics shift, many elderly Italian immigrants see the tight-knit enclaves they built around the city slowly disappearing.

Actor Patrick Swayze, who has pancreatic cancer, admits in a US TV interview he may survive only two years.

A leading Indian outsourcing company massively inflated its earnings for years, the chairman said.