DHAKA (AFP) – A Bangladeshi court has thrown out the last of 15 corruption cases that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has faced since coming to power in astropsychologia early 2009, a lawyer said Monday.
The country's high court ruled Sunday that "no offence has been committed" when Hasina ordered the appointment of an American lobbyist in [...]
SINGAPORE – Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday after a fall on Wall Street and amid news Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is resigning after just eight months as the nation”s leader.
It was the second day of losses for the region”s markets. A negative cue came from Wall Street, where stocks dived late in the session [...]
PARIS – European Central Bank President said Monday that Europe needs “the equivalent of a budgetary federation” as a watchdog over eurozone governments” public finances as a response to the continent”s government debt crisis.
In an interview in French daily Le Monde Jean-Claude Trichet said that existing European treaties would permit the kind of “control and [...]
ROCHESTER, Mich. – Andy Sakmar has been selling real estate for 35 years, and despite an economic downturn that has hobbled sales and left one in every 36 Oakland County homes in foreclosure, he”s optimistic.
“The real estate market in the past 90 days has been fantastic,” he said recently from his office in a converted [...]
WASHINGTON – Closer watch over Wall Street will help consumers make better informed choices about investing and shine light on the shadowy deals that caused the financial crisis, President Barack Obama said Saturday in pushing Congress to pass overhaul legislation.
In his weekly radio podręczniki szkolne and Internet address, Obama said the bill also would curb [...]
Simon Cowell was granted his final wish on “American Idol.”
Lee DeWyze, the bashful paint sales clerk championed early by the biting British judge on the Fox singing contest, was crowned “Idol” on Wednesday over single mother Crystal Bowersox. His victory was based on votes cast after Tuesday”s performances, which drew more acclaim from the judges [...]
LONDON – A senior minister in Britain”s new coalition government resigned Saturday after admitting that he claimed tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) in taxpayers” money to pay rent to his long-term partner.
David Laws said he would step down immediately as Chief Treasury Secretary, a role he had occupied for less than a month. He [...]
Since it was formed three weeks ago, Britain”s new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government has been touting itself as the herald of change. But some things, it seems, always stay the same. In a near re-run of the scandals that had been battering Westminster for over a year before the country”s May 6 election, one [...]
In a potentially alarming trend for the White House, independent voters are deserting President Barack Obama nationally and especially in key swing states, recent polls suggest.
Obama’s job approval rating hit a — still healthy — low of 56 percent in the Gallup Poll on Wednesday. And pollsters are debating whether Obama’s expansive and expensive [...]