By Fiona Lau and Elzio Barreto HONG KONG (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs launched on Monday the sale of about $1.1 billion worth of Hong Kong-traded shares in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , offering to sell its entire remaining stake in the worl... [Full Article]
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar soared on Friday against a basket of currencies, reaching a nearly three-year peak, and global equity indexes gained as speculation mounted over whether the Federal Reserve would soon begin to rein in i... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday urged Britons to watch whether European Union reforms were successful before deciding whether to leave the multi-nation bloc, backing the position taken by Prime Minister David Cameron. &qu... [Full Article]
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgaria's center-right party and its main challenger, the Socialists, finished first and second in Sunday's parliamentary election, with neither one winning a majority needed to form a government, two exit polls indi... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Contract electronics manufacturer Celestica Inc reported a 76 percent fall in first-quarter profit, hit by the loss of contracts from its once-biggest customer, Blackberry. The company's net income fell to $10.5 million, or 6 cents p... [Full Article]
By Patrick Markey BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Bomb attacks and mortar fire failed to prevent Iraqis voting on Saturday in the first nationwide elections since the last U.S. troops left more than a year ago. The provincial elections will measure political par... [Full Article]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Former British foreign secretary David Miliband, once tipped as a potential prime minister, said on Wednesday he was leaving politics to boost his brother's chances of leading the opposition Labour party to vi... [Full Article]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - At gatherings of Latin American bishops, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was often a star speaker about economic inequities in a profit-driven world. He also has used the forums to warn fellow church leaders about drifting from core... [Full Article]
ROME (AP) - Italian voters appeared to reject Silvio Berlusconi's bid for a triumphant comeback, exit polls showed Monday, as a center-left coalition that has suggested it would stay the course of painful economic reforms took the lead in the co... [Full Article]