By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson will retire at the end of the season after more than 26 years in charge, bringing to a close the most glittering managerial career in British football. The Premier League cha... [Full Article]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korean workers didn't show up for work at a jointly run factory complex with South Korea on Tuesday, a day after Pyongyang suspended operations at the last remaining major economic link between rivals locked in an... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen has bought a famous Picasso painting from casino mogul Steve Wynn for a record price, according to a report in the New York Post on Tuesday. Cohen, who runs $15 billion hedge fund firm SAC Capit... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Lady Gaga's manager says the pop star is "doing unbelievable" a month after she had hip surgery that caused her to cancel her U.S. tour. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - The professional wrestling community on Wednesday mourned the death of William Moody, a real-life undertaker who gained fame as a wrestling manager with the ring name Paul Bearer. Moody, 58, who managed the entertainment s... [Full Article]
GENEVA (Reuters) - A former Swissair official said the airport scenes in Oscar-winning film "Argo" were a realistic depiction of the airline's unwitting role in the rescue of American diplomats from Tehran during the 1979 Islamic Revol... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Asset manager BlackRock has built a stake of more than 8 percent in the listed shares of football club Manchester United. The U.S. company owns 8.21 percent of the English Premier League club's Class A shares, listed on the Ne... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Two former employees of HBOS have been charged by UK prosecutors over business loans made through a high street bank for about 35 million pounds, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday. The pair, who were charged with ... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former hedge fund managers were convicted on Monday of illegal trading in Dell Inc stock based on secret information supplied by research analysts, the latest in a string of Wall Street insider-trading convictions. A federal ... [Full Article]
Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]