LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS has yet to fully purge itself of a global interest rate scandal that has cost the Swiss bank its reputation and put it at risk of a wave of costly civil suits, its investment banking chief said on Wednesday. The once-ven... [Full Article]
President Mohammed Morsi is unlikely to worry if Egypt's Islamist-leaning draft constitution passes by only a small margin in a Dec. 15 referendum, since he and his backers tout his 51 percent election victory in June as a "popular mandate&... [Full Article]
Romanian lawmakers have approved a new left-leaning Cabinet that is expected to continue a slate of economic reforms. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary about the former car body shop worker who another friend said liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports." (Source: ... [Full Article]
Iran on Tuesday rejected allegations it attempted to clean up radioactive traces possibly left by secret nuclear work at a key military site before granting U.N. inspectors permission to visit the facility. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Residents of frontier Syrian cities like Quseir are abandoning their homes and fleeing into Lebanon. Forces now ‘cleaning' the Homs neighborhood of Bab Amro will push toward the border to crush scattered rebel remnants. (Source: The Daily Beast)... [Full Article]
Satellite images of an Iranian military facility show trucks and earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating that crews were trying to clean it of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated ... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A cleaning worker walks past closed down Spanair check-in counters at Madrid's Barajas airport January 29, 2012. Loss-making Spanish airline Spanair ceased operations on Friday night, grounding all its airplanes after its owner, citin... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The landmark clock tower containing Big Ben at Britain's Palace of Westminster, is tilting, while media reports Monday said the mother of all parliaments was slipping into the River Thames, raising fears over its future. The H... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A worker (L) from a cleaning company removes a carpet next to men in part of Sao Paulo's Luz neighborhood known to locals as Cracolandia (Crackland) December 8, 2011. Crack is sold and used openly in Cracolandia, according to local re... [Full Article]