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LONDON — Iceland and Britain backed away from a full-blown diplomatic war yesterday over the decision by the Icelandic president to veto a bill on the repayment of a $5.7 billion loan. A day after Britain warned that Iceland risked becoming an intern...

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England kept the scale of its asset purchase programme unchanged at £200 billion ($319 billion) and left UK interest rates at 0.5 percent in a widely expected move yesterday. Policymakers had indicated they were likely ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock market index ended a five-session stretch of gains yesterday as a drop in gold and oil prices pulled down a host of resource-related stocks, including Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor Energy. The price of...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has reached a settlement in a series of federal lawsuits in which dozens of Iraqis accused the company of cultivating a reckless culture that allowed innocent civilians to ...

LONDON - Britain's top share index inched lower as weakness in heavyweight Vodafone offset modest gains from energy stocks. The FTSE 100 index ended down 3.32 points, or 0.1 percent, at 5,526.72, retreating slightly after closing at a fresh 16-month ...

BC-EU--Britain-Animal Count,0134 London Zoo keepers make annual animal head count AP Photo LKW101, LKW103, LKW105, LKW106, LKW108, LKW108, LKW103 LONDON (AP) -- Keepers at London Zoo are counting more than sheep. Three giant Galapagos tortoises, a Ko...

A burglar caught red-handed with more than $13,000 of stolen jewellery was given one last chance to mend his ways by a Magistrate, who referred him to drug court. Prosecutor Nicole Smith told Magistrates' Court that Leon Fough, 35, was stopped by the...

Harbor Point Ltd. has announced that its affiliate, New Point Re III, Ltd., will continue to offer collateralised retrocessional reinsurance coverage for contracts starting from January 1, 2010 onwards. New Point has capacity to offer aggregate limit...