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A farmer plants rice on a rice paddy field in Trung Na village, ...
Feb 22nd, 2012
(Reuters) - A farmer plants rice on a rice paddy field in Trung Na village, outside Hanoi February 22, 2012. REUTERS/Kham (VIETNAM - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS) -
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 interest rates and rising rents have encouraged more Americans to buy homes after the housing market bust, ... [Full Article]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Bullion producer Gold Fields reported a 66 percent drop in first quarter earnings on Friday, its first results since it split off the bulk of its South African assets, as its production and the price of the precious metal fell. Headline earnings for the first three months of the year came in at 4 U.S. cents a share from a r... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - The bodies of the Syrian boys and young men in jeans and casual shirts were strewn along a blood-stained pavement, dying apparently where they fell. Weeping women moved among the dead, and one of them screamed, "Where are you, people of the village?" (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]