LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers Standard Life and Resolution are most at risk from a regulatory probe into whether retirees who buy annuities - investment policies that provide a regular income until death - get a fair deal, analysts said. The investigat... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warned on Tuesday that investors appeared to be making worryingly risky bets at a time when Britain's economy was weak and its banks had not yet recovered from the financial crisis. Speakin... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that a security update of Oracle Corp's Java software for Web browsers does not do enough to protect computers from attack, sticking to its previous advice that the program be disabled.... [Full Article]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When computer "hackers" working for the U.S. Navy succeeded in breaking into the computer logistics system that controls the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter earlier this year, they did the company a fav... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - One out of every seven Los Angeles high schoolers with a cell phone has sent a sexually-explicit text message or photo, according to results of a 2011 survey that also found "sexters" more likely to engage in ris... [Full Article]
China's leadership faces a knotty choice in how to finish off fallen politician Bo Xilai without further damaging the Communist Party's image: Purge him the old-fashioned way - in secret - or run him through a public trial. (Source: Associa... [Full Article]
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo market slumped to a 28-year low on Monday as Asian shares dived on fears of a nightmare scenario of euro-zone breakup, U.S. economic relapse and a sharp slowdown in China. (Source: Yahoo! Finance)... [Full Article]
Asian shares tumbled on Monday, pushing the broader Tokyo market to a 28-year low, as investors extended a rout of global stocks and worried about a nightmare scenario of euro-zone breakup, U.S. economic relapse and a sharp slowdown in China. Tokyo... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek political leaders meet on Wednesday to form a caretaker government that will lead the country into its second election in just over a month, with Greece's euro membership at stake in a mounting crisis rocking world marke... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - European stock markets slid Tuesday in the absence of risky trades amid concerns over the strength of the world's top economies. In late morning trade, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.87 percent to 6,000.71 points.(AFP/F... [Full Article]