Prince Charles compares Putin to HitlerBritain's Prince Charles stoked controversy during a visit to Canada by comparing the recent actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin's to those of Adolf Hitler, the Daily Mail reported.
21 May 2014
Credit Suisse guilty on US felony charge, pays $2.6 bnCredit Suisse pleaded guilty and was fined $2.6 billion Monday for helping Americans avoid taxes, the first time in 20 years a major bank has been punished on US criminal charges.
Ex-Beatle McCartney cancels Japan tour over illnessFormer Beatle Paul McCartney has cancelled his Japan tour due to illness, organisers said Tuesday, days after apologising to fans for missing a pair of weekend concerts.
20 May 2014
AstraZeneca rejects Pfizer's final $117bn bidBritish drugs giant AstraZeneca rejected on Monday a final takeover bid from US rival Pfizer worth $117 billion, saying it undervalued the firm and created uncertainty and risk for shareholders.
Stallone, Schwarzenegger revive old rivalry in CannesOne-time rivals Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger grabbed the opportunity of their testosterone-fuelled promotion of "Expendables 3" in Cannes to poke fun at each other in a rollicking press conference.
19 May 2014
Prince Harry visits WWII battle site in ItalyBritain's Prince Harry visited an Italian World War II battlefield on Sunday where tens of thousands of soldiers died 70 years ago and unveiled the design of Britain's pavilion for the Milan Expo.
19 May 2014
Swiss turn down world's highest minimum wageSwiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to introduce the world's highest minimum wage, which would have guaranteed every worker in one of the world's priciest nations at least $25 an hour.
19 May 2014
Briton, Israeli, German among student Oscar winnersYoung filmmakers from Briton, Germany and Israel were announced Friday as winners of student Academy Awards, along with 12 laureates from American universities, who will get their prizes next month.
18 May 2014
Syrian woman's siege of Homs film gets standing ovation at CannesA Syrian woman whose horrifying footage of the siege of Homs was turned into a film by an exiled director was on Friday given a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, a few hours after the pair met for the first time.
17 May 2014
Four dead as 'catastrophic' floods hit Bosnia and SerbiaFour people in Bosnia have died in flooding from the heaviest rainfall to hit the Balkans in over a century, officials said Friday, in what Serbia's premier has called a "horrible natural catastrophe".
17 May 2014
Five MSF aid workers freed in SyriaFive aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) who were kidnapped in Syria in January have been freed, the medical charity said.
16 May 2014
eBay courts Latin America with Spanish, Portuguese websitesUS online giant eBay announced Thursday the launch of Spanish and Portuguese versions of its popular auction and shopping website, hoping to boost its presence in growing Latin American markets.
16 May 2014
Sudan judge orders Christian woman to hang for apostasyA Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a heavily pregnant Christian woman to hang for apostasy, a ruling which Britain denounced as "barbaric" and left the United States "deeply disturbed".
16 May 2014
Gazprom chief escaped sanctions after European lobbyingThe head of Russian state gas giant Gazprom escaped being named on a list of EU sanctions over the Ukraine crisis after lobbying from European energy firms, Moscow newspaper Vedomosti reported.