Conservative party leader Sauli Niinistoe has won Finland's presidential election by a landslide and will become the country's first conservative president in 30 years.

Officials say Mr....

Security officials say the crowds expected in Indianapolis for the NFL's Super Bowl championship game are tempting targets for terrorists.

An operation in place to protect the Super Bowl 46 site...

Over 500 million Indians will need new homes in almost a decade, close to the needs of China, North America and Western Europe put together, as the government and urban local bodies focus more on...

Using a new technique, Layered Voice Analysis, can decipher whether CEOs are lying or not, a study reveals.

Duke University and University of Illinois researchers turned to an Israeli firm...

Sharon Osbourne has been sued by a design company which has accused the reality TV star of breaching a jewellery deal by pulling out at the last minute.

Lucas Design International executives...

Canada’s biggest telecommunications companies will report their fourth-quarter earnings this week, providing investors with a check up on the state of wireless competition and the budding...

Gary Christoferson and wife, Karin, in their Brooklyn Park townhouse, where she uses the TruHeal system on a leg wound that wouldn't heal for more than a year. She started to see signs of...

Phil Falcone's Harbinger Capital Partners lost 47 percent for investors in his main hedge fund last year as he was forced to slash the value of his troubled wireless venture by more than half,...

One moment, Ed Mellgren is expressing pride in the longevity of his family's fifth-generation company, St. Paul Stamp Works. After all, the maker of custom nameplates, badges and plaques has...

Six months into his tour as the boss of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Steve Rosenstone, a career academic, is now all about business. Rosenstone, a political scientist who is the former...

In September 2010, Wall Street analyst Meredith Whitney made a bold prediction: The U.S. municipal bond market was going to crash in 2011. People make predictions all the time, but Whitney's was...

It's the Monday morning staff meeting and the week's urgent projects are on the agenda. Plenty of assignments for everyone: some that involve a few quick phone calls, and others that will...

The outer game Like any skill, you'll have to practice, and that's easier to do if you're not taken by surprise. Anticipate times that you might be asked to take on a task, and plan...

BRUSSELS -- European governments are pressing Google to halt coming changes to its privacy policies while they investigate the implications for personal data protection. The move is a shot across...

The European Banking Authority is to challenge a significant proportion of the capital restructuring plans put forward by the continent's leading banks to meet tough new capital requirements,...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- California Attorney General Kamala Harris objects to giving banks broad releases of liability for predatory lending. At the same time, she may be locked into her...

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Qantas Airways Ltd. would have to cut jobs, cancel routes and even sell off its budget division Jetstar if laws affecting the airline are changed, said Alan Joyce, chief...

I love this Chevy Sonic ad featuring Rob Dyrdek, the pro skateboarder who had his own show on MTV for a while, "Rob and Big." It's the Super Bowl -- go big on the stunts, I say. Do you...

GLEN.L ) for each Xstrata share, under the terms of their $88 billion (55 billion pounds) proposed merger, the Financial Times reported on...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's coalition parties must tell the European Union on Monday whether they accept the painful terms of a new bailout deal as EU patience wears thin with political...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A simmering feud between General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co heated up on Sunday as Ford objected to GM's Super Bowl advertisement for its Chevy Silverado pickup...

CAPE TOWN – A record number of postponed initial public offerings of miners from 2011 may likely come to the fore in the second half of this year if the equity markets stabilize over a...

CAPE TOWN – Mining-and-metals companies around the world shifted to alternative sources of financing in 2011 to execute their growth strategies given the turbulence in the equity markets during...

IRVING, TX - The Board of Directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation today declared a cash dividend of 47 cents per share on the Common Stock, payable on March 9, 2012 to shareholders of record of Common ...

A strong January jobs report on Friday sent US stocks soaring, pushing the Dow to pre-crisis levels, as investors celebrated a surge in job growth that pointed to new vitality in the fragile...

WASHINGTON - Underperforming money managers are losing their most reliable scapegoat. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the nation's professional stock-pickers - who manage billions for pension...

NEW YORK - Forget the battle between the Giants and the Pats. The real Super Bowl showdown is between advertisers. The Super Bowl is advertising's biggest stage and companies spent an average...

What do the bankers do - work tirelessly on your behalf, or work for themselves on your money? We have an option - to move our money, but few of us actually do. In fact, we are more likely to divorce...

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that Israel has not yet decided how to respond to concerns about Iran's nuclear program and said there was no evidence that Iran has the "intentions or...

] stands by the ad and says it will run during Sunday's game. In the ad, a driver in a Silverado navigates a post-apocalyptic scene. When he meets up with some friends, he notices one is...

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- When Sony Corp.’s 2006 release of PlayStation 3 flopped because features installed by the engineer who founded the business made the games console too expensive, Chief...

The Boeing Dreamliner 787-800 is hosed down after making its first landing at the Jomo Kenyatta airport in Kenya's capital Nairobi, December 14,...

Reto Francioni, CEO of Deutsche Boerse AG (German stock exchange) delivers a speech a news conference at the Frankfurt stock exchange February 1,...

It's an increasingly common sight: Chinese consumers turning to local fast-food alternatives to the long-dominant pair in China -- Yum Brands Inc's...

Asian Markets are set to open higher after U.S. stocks rose,giving the Standard & Poor's 500 Index a fifth straight weekly advance,after reports showed employment in the world's largest...

an affordableParisian-inspired line that features delicate blouses, pleated skirts, handbags and clutches. While luxury department stores can sell Jason Wu items for almost $5000, Target is...

An aerial of the Mickelson home in Rancho Santa Fe. Photo courtesy of Susan Bartow. Two local celebrities have put their homes on the market, and a debate between those for and against real estate...

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Newt Gingrich vowed to continue his fight for the Republican presidential nomination a day after Nevada handed him a second consecutive defeat, saying contests in the South next...

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- "Chronicle," the film about three teens who acquire psychic powers, opened as the top movie in theaters in the U.S. and Canada, taking in $22 million for News...

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and the three political party leaders supporting him agreed to take spending cuts this year equal to 1.5 percent of GDP, according to an...

When Scarlett Johannson and Ryan Reynolds announced their engagement in 2008, it seemed like an A-Lister match made in Hollywood heaven, akin to the beautiful pairing of Brad and Jennifer Aniston....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A renewed focus on Europe's banking and debt crisis may quickly sap the nascent optimism about global economic prospects that followed a remarkably solid U.S. January...

(Reuters) - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on...

PARIS – Critical talks on a Greek debt rescue will over-run until Monday, the country's leaders said, but some ruling coalition members denounced the pressure to pass harsher austerity...

ATHENS, Greece - Crisis talks on a debt deal for Greece among the three leaders of parties supporting the coalition government were suspended and will continue Monday. Greece is racing to finalize...

Olympus , the Japanese camera maker suing 19 current and former executives over accounting fraud, has told the Tokyo stock exchange it will hold an emergency shareholders' meeting on 20...

LONDON, Ont. -; A national casual clothing chain has pulled Caterpillar boots from its London, Ont., stores after the heavy-equipment giant shut down a local locomotive plant. Mark's Work...

Leaders of parties supporting Greece's coalition government say crisis talks for huge new debt deals will continue Monday. Coalition backers held a five-hour meeting late Sunday with Prime...

Iran has indicated that its threat to cut oil supplies to European states in order to pre-empt a European Union oil embargo that comes into effect in July may be only a symbolic...