Volkswagen (VW) shares rose sharply Tuesday, a day after sports carmaker Porsche announced it had acquired a majority stake in its German...

Socialite heiress Paris Hilton has announced to name first daughter after a city just like her...

Hollywood actress Eva Mendes served up a special treat for her mother at the premiere of her latest film 'The Spirit' because it was at the cinema where the latter once...

Hollywood actress Kate Hudson took time out of promoting her latest film to offer her condolences to actor John Travolta and Kelly Preston after the tragic death of their teenaged son...

British actress Sienna Miller is to make her debut as a designer at the London Fashion Week (LFW) to be held next...

Hollywood actress and singer-songwriter Jennifer Love Hewitt has split with her fiance of two years, Scottish actor Ross...

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham will be dividing her time every week between Los Angeles (LA) and Italy in the coming...

Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has lashed out at reporters who insist that she has split from her DJ girlfriend Samantha...

Washington, Jan 6 : Researchers from Switzerland and the UK have found that commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPVs) do not seem to be effective for preventing...

Washington, Jan 6 : A new study from University of Wurzburg in Germany has found vital clues that may lead to development of new treatments for aggressive childhood...

Tel Aviv, Jan.6 : Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's toxic comments Sunday that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip would lead to punishment from Allah and Israel's "self-destruction" has drawn a strong protest from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which told Turkey's ambassador to Israel that these words were "unacceptable" among friendly...

Waterford Wedgewood, the 250-year-old fine china and glassware firm, has gone into administration -- the latest British iconic brand to be hit by the economic...

Moscow, Jan 6 (RIA Novosti) Russian gas supplies through Ukraine to Turkey have stopped, the Turkish minister of energy and natural resources said...

Three youths tried to torch a synagogue in London amid a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain and elsewhere in Europe since the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Jewish groups said...

Former British premier Tony Blair is to be presented with one of America's highest civilian honours but is yet to pick up a Congressional gold medal awarded to him in...

The traditional light bulb is finally being switched off for the last time in Britain. A voluntary withdrawal scheme of the government is now in motion and use of the bulb will be banned from...

Three Indians, Kush Kumar, Mahesh Mangaonkar and Deepika Pallikal, entered the final in their respective sections on the penultimate day of the British Open junior squash championship...

Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has congratulated Prime Minister Shekh Hasina and warmly welcomed what he called the restoration of representative democracy in...

Actor Mickey Rourke received two ovations at the London premiere of his new movie 'The Wrestler'. He called it the best and the hardest movie of his...

Britain's Sussex Police are having to justify a particular expense in recession time - proposing to spend 10,000 pounds on Indian head...

Oscar winning actress Kathy Bates regrets not making her battle with ovarian cancer...

Bond actor Daniel Craig shot to prominence with his much heralded role as James Bond in 'Casino Royale' but he is not completely comfortable with his...

Pop star Britney Spears will get back to work after a long break which included attending her brother's...

Singer Lily Allen has started a feud with upcoming US singer Katy...

British singer Amy Winehouse flew five of her friends to the island of St...

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and his Oscar winning girlfriend Reese Witherspoon shared a kiss at a Los Angeles Lakers basketball...

Rap star Sean Combs is angling to be the first black James Bond and his new fragrance commercial is his 'audition...

Pirates have seized a French ship off the Nigerian coast and taken its nine crew members hostage, the ship owners have...

Russia has said it will further cut gas to Ukraine by 65 million cubic metres per day, the amount Moscow says Kiev is stealing from European clients further...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The dollar continued its rise against the euro Tuesday as negative economic reports punished the European currency.But investors shouldn't necessarily label the gains as a...

Previously, William and Harry's affairs had been handled by the office of their father, Prince Charles, at Clarence House in central London. But the brothers' new household released a statement -...

The gas war has erupted again after three years marked by ups and downs between Moscow and Kiev over its cost. No deal, no supplies. It’s the same scenario as in the winter of 2006. Back then,...

Efforts by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European leaders to broker a cease-fire in Gaza have so far come to naught. The problem confronting them, and any potential peacemakers in the...

VIENNA, Austria -- OMV AG, Central Europe's largest oil and gas company, says Austria's natural gas supplies from Russia are down 90 percent.Austria's Economics Ministry has called an emergency...

MedImmune has applied to sell its flu-fighting nasal spray in Europe, potentially spreading the FluMist brand beyond the U.S. for the first time. Maryland's cornerstone biotechnology company, a...

By Blaise Robinson PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - European stocks rose on Tuesday for the sixth straight session, as rallying metal prices and hopes of big infrastructure spending boosted mining and steel...

The Russia-Ukraine natural gas dispute hit Europe with the force of a winter storm Tuesday, cutting or limiting supplies to nearly a dozen nations. Tens of thousands of people were left without heat...

The energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine has escalated and now Europe is suffering disruptions to its gas supplies. Hit hard by the financial crisis, Ukraine is hardly in a position to meet...

Arsenal FC manager Arsène Wenger has tipped Jack Wilshere for the top after the 17-year-old signed his first professional contract with the club. Three-year deal Wilshere, who turned 17 on 1...

(KIEV) - Ukraine said Tuesday it would send the head of its gas company to Moscow this week to resume talks with Russian gas giant Gazprom, the first sign of compromise in an energy dispute that...

(VIENNA) - Gas shortages were beginning to bite Tuesday, putting several eastern European countries in crisis mode after imports from Russia were cut just as freezing winter weather set in, boosting...

PARIS (AP) -- Government officials and Jewish leaders are concerned the conflict in Gaza may spill over into violence in Europe, with attacks reported against Jews and synagogues in France, Sweden...

STOCKS NEWS Reuters Results diary Stocks on the move Real-time Equity News 15:25GMT 06Jan2009-Banks stocks not cheap - Citi ------------------------------------------------ Europe's battered bank...

Movement is blocked in connection with the danger of a descent on a line of avalanches both to the north from the Roksky tunnel, and to the...

(AXcess News) Moscow - Thermometers are plunging across Europe, and so is the pressure in the natural-gas pipelines connecting the continent with its key supplier, Russia. But no one is pushing...

German billionaire Adolf Merckle has committed suicide after his business empire ran into trouble in the global economic slowdown. In a statement his family said he had been "broken" by the...

Britain's Andy Murray started the defence of his Qatar Open title with a comfortable 6-2 6-4 win over Spain's Albert Montanes. World number four Murray broke Montanes twice in the first set to take...

The euro sank against the dollar on Tuesday as tumbling eurozone inflation raised expectations the European Central Bank would slash interest rates again next week, analysts said.In late European...

The ongoing struggle between Ukraine and Russia over energy has sharply escalated, with Turkey and European countries now reporting sharp cutoffs of Russian gas shipped to Europe through pipelines...

By SELCAN HACAOGLUASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing...