BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union will not back down from protecting its industries against Chinese competition it sees as unfair, but mutual self-interest will prevent a damaging trade war, the EU's trade chief Karel De Gucht said. Disput... [Full Article]
News of drug cartels mass-producing souped-up methamphetamine - that's the latest word as reported by The Associated Press, and it sounds pretty scary. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Johannesburg Stock Exchange said on Tuesday that trade had been halted on Africa's biggest stock market due to a system glitch. A spokeswoman for bourse operator JSE Ltd said the bourse was investigating the cause of... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Options traders in the U.S. stock market are getting their bets in place in case the U.S. economy tumbles down the "fiscal cliff," or worse, if the U.S. presidential election is so close that the result is disputed. The stock ma... [Full Article]
Turkey and Syria fired artillery and mortars across their volatile border for a fifth consecutive day on Sunday, in one of the most serious and prolonged flare-ups of violence along the frontier. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Turkish and Syria traded artillery fire for the fourth day in a row Saturday as rebels clashed with President Bashar Assad's forces near the border, heightening fears that the crisis could erupt into a regional conflict. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday, with futures for the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones down 0.2 percent, while contracts on the Nasdaq 100 were down 0.1 percent at 3.51 a.m. EDT. Europe... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - A former UBS trader wept in a London dock on Tuesday after reading an email in which "rogue trader" Kweku Adoboli, a former colleague accused of fraud, admitted to unauthorised trades that risked undermining the Swiss ban... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - A former UBS trader wept in a London dock on Tuesday after reading an email in which "rogue trader" Kweku Adoboli, a former colleague accused of fraud, admitted to unauthorised trades that risked undermining the Swiss ban... [Full Article]
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss railway operator SBB and a Swiss watchmaker are considering challenging Apple over the striking similarity between the country's trademark station clocks and the clock on a new operating system for the iPad. "We now... [Full Article]