LONDON (Reuters) - British baby and maternity products retailer Mothercare posted a better-than-expected rise in full-year profit and said it was making good progress with its three-year turnaround plan. The group, which has some 1,300 stores worldwi... [Full Article]
By Mridhula Raghavan (Reuters) - Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc reported stronger-than-expected results on higher average selling prices and booked its highest quarterly orders in seven years, sending its shares up 7 percent. Record-low interes... [Full Article]
BAGHDAD (AP) - A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide in a week of the most sustained sectarian violence ... [Full Article]
By Alexandria Sage CANNES (Reuters) - Folk music, Greenwich Village and a quick-footed cat star in the new Coen brothers movie at the Cannes film festival on Sunday, kicking off the first of five U.S. entries with its engaging misadventures of a stru... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian state television aired footage Wednesday from Russia's security services claiming that another alleged American spy was expelled earlier this year. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
The Cold War is long over, but espionage is forever. Russian spies still operate in the U.S. and American ones in Russia. On Tuesday, Russia's security services said they had caught a U.S. diplomat who they claim is a CIA official trying to recr... [Full Article]
By Veronica Ek and Clare Kane STOCKHOLM/MADRID (Reuters) - The world's two biggest fashion retailers, Inditex and H&M, along with several other companies have backed an accord aimed at preventing another disaster like last month's Bangl... [Full Article]
LONDON (AP) - Higher-than-expected Chinese inflation figures on Thursday gave some investors a chance to cash in recent gains, but another fall in weekly U.S. jobless claims helped shore up the mood in financial markets. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BANGKOK (AP) - Asian stock markets rose Thursday on the heels of another record high on Wall Street and an interest rate cut in South Korea to boost economic growth. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 extending its three-day rally to an intraday high, although profit-taking in technology shares capped gains. The tech sector, which had been among the gainers for t... [Full Article]