By Chikako Mogi TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Thursday as weak euro zone data, a sluggish debt auction in Italy and fears of a potential run on Cyprus's banks stoked investors' concerns about instability in Europe. European markets... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Add this to the list of things some people are thankful for: stores open on Thanksgiving Day. That's how Janet Guerrero, 24, felt when shopping on Thursday afternoon at a Wal-Mart in Westbury, Long Island, because she had no... [Full Article]
Two deadly car bombs and sporadic fighting marred a shaky holiday truce Friday in Syria, although thousands of protesters used the brief respite in the civil war to pour into the streets and demand President Bashar Assad's ouster. (Source: Assoc... [Full Article]
The craggy island specks in the East China Sea aren't even an economic backwater. They have no factories, no highways, no shops, no people - only goats. But the high-pitched row between Beijing and Tokyo over their ownership is exacting a growin... [Full Article]
All that remain of Vietnam's plan to build a major deep-water port are 114 exposed pilings trailing into the South China Sea and a barge full of rusty machinery. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc's new operations chief, Kal Raman, is driving a major overhaul of the daily deals website's sales and payment processes to convince Wall Street skeptics that it is a serious technology company and not j... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Earnings season begins on Monday with U.S. companies facing a litany of issues that could make second-quarter reports look dismal. Corporate outlooks are at their most negative in nearly four years and companies that have already... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - As the securities industry finally warms up to using social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, regulators are discovering that brokerages and investment advisers are off to a rocky start. Some firms are making major missteps as th... [Full Article]
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to dispatch a first team of monitors to Syria to shore up a brittle cease-fire as escalating fighting between regime and rebel forces threatened the truce at the heart of special envoy Kofi Annan&#... [Full Article]
Syria's opposition called for widespread protests Friday to test the regime's commitment to an internationally brokered cease-fire that the U.N. chief described as so fragile it could collapse with a single gunshot. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
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