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Grenada is a rolling, mountainous island, covered with fragrant spice trees and rare tropical flowers. Bordered by stunning beaches, and dotted with picturesque towns, this verdant island has long been a major source of nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cinnamon...

The synonym for paradise is Galápagos. The definition is an archipelago of 15 islands and dozens of islets in the Pacific, straddling the Equator and belonging to Ecuador, 600 miles east.

Never mind the 19th century visit of Charles ...

The Government has finally given the green light to the ￡16 billion cross-London Crossrail project.

Announcing that funding was now in place for the long-delayed scheme, Gordon Brown said today that it was a project of “enormous impor...

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to introduce comparative tables for Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) from March next year.

The PPI scheme - an insurance policy designed to cover monthly repayments on mortgages, secured and unsec...

The International Spy Museum last week opened the capital's latest intrigue, a new interactive experience that incorporates exhibits, movies, computer games, theatrical shows and rides into one exhilarating adventure. It also packs plenty of intrigue a...

The number of new mortgage approvals in Britain fell to their lowest level since April in August as higher interest rates took their toll of buyer confidence, according to figures released today.

Data from the Bank of England showed that ev...

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  Many highly successful businesses begin in a garage or at a kitchen table, with an employee workforce of one or a small, hard-working coterie clacking away behind laptops. As any business grows, legal complications multiply, along with the numbe...

THE British government may own as much as 30 percent of four of the country's biggest banks as it doles out the 50-billion-pound (US$87 billion) lifeline announced earlier this week, according to analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein. 　　Prime Minister Gordo...

Many small business owners make a common mistake: They use their business checking account or business credit card to pay personal expenses. They figure it's no big deal. They'll either pretend those were business expenses and deduct them on the busine...

When David Porter recently resigned from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for a newly created position at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., it seemed like a coup for the studio.

As one of the top executives in home video and music merchandising for the na...

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. wants you to use a better bulb.

The utility has begun an effort to give away 1 million compact fluorescent light bulbs in October. The bulbs last far longer than their incandescent predecessors and use far less ...

If we spend $500 for groceries each month and can't possibly lower the total, then it's foolish to budget $450. Budgets must be based on reality, which is why I recommend keeping track of all expenses for at least three months before drawing up a budge...

Northern Rock is thought to have taken on a further ￡2.9bn of emergency borrowings from the Bank of England this week, bringing the total to an estimated ￡10.7bn since the mortgage group first called on the central bank three weeks ago.

The...

Many people, no doubt, take Heinz Tomato Ketchup for granted. It's been around forever, the venerable HJ Heinz is a $2.5 billion global company that sells 650 million bottles of ketchup annually, and for 50 years its advertising mantra has been "t...

A 30-year-old single mother is ordered to pay $222,000 in damages over 24 songs she shared online with a Kazaa account. By Joseph Menn, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 5, 2007 The recording industry on Thursday won the largest judgment so ...

You don't have to be a UC Berkeley student to be educated like one.

UC Berkeley has begun to publish its lectures on YouTube, the first university to team up with the video-sharing site to offer full courses online. It's the latest move to ...

DULUTH, Minn. - The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for sharing copyrighted mu...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia on Wednesday allayed European fears of a potential gas supply crisis due to a payment row with Ukraine after the government in Kiev sent a minister to Moscow and pledged to settle the dispute.

Russia's Gazprom energy g...

TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd ( RIM.TO ) (RIMM.O) reported a second-quarter profit on Thursday that beat expectations, as it broke the 10-million subscriber mark and predicted strength for the rest of the year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Those door busting deals that U.S. retailers are planning for the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend are already starting to appear online.

Numerous Web sites have cropped up in recent years that publish what they cl...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy added a solid but unspectacular 94,000 jobs in September, bouncing back from the first drop in monthly hiring in four years during August, economists surveyed by Reuters forecast.

None of 81 economist...

Shares in Sears Holdings Corp., the biggest U.S. department-store chain, gained as much as 4.3 percent on speculation that activist investor William Ackman will demand that Chairman Edward Lampert sell stores to boost profit.

Ackman is repo...

WASHINGTON - Public relations giant Burson-Marsteller has vast experience steering companies through tough times. But there's a limit to how much it can help Blackwater USA , a new client that's been battered by negative publicity.

The Stat...

SINGAPORE - Oil prices inched lower Friday in Asia, after rising overnight the first time in four sessions as investors began to question if supplies of crude and products are sufficient for coming winter demand.

Light, sweet crude for Nove...

TORONTO - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd . broke through the 10 million subscriber mark at the end of the second quarter and is expecting the growth in accounts to accelerate as the company targets the consumer market.

The Waterloo...

Is it really important to measure a business performance? I think if you will even need to purchase someone's business, then you will never ask this question and the answer will be “Yes! Sure!”, because if you do not measure the performance...

SHANGHAI -- Early one recent Friday morning, government agents dressed in military fatigues and lugging sledgehammers stormed into one apartment after another at a huge housing complex here. They smashed walls and tossed tenants' belongings outside. Fr...

EBay, the internet auction site, admitted yesterday that it had overpaid hugely for Skype, the internet telephone company.

It also said that Niklas Zennstrom, Skype's founder, would step down as chief executive of Skype to become nonexecuti...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee held interest rates at 5.75 per cent yesterday, defying calls from groups such as retailers for a base rate cut. There was no accompanying statement explaining the decision, though the Bank will publish m...