Vivendi, Europe's largest entertainment group by sales, recorded a 10.3 per cent increase in underlying profits in the first

...foreseeable future. Six months later, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, the Qatar Investment Authority's chief executive, is...idiosyncratic foreign policy and backing of the free-speaking al-Jazeera satellite channel had already attracted attention...

...councils" and turned on their former allies, al-Qaeda in Iraq.Iraqi officials did not...said the murders bore the signature of al-Qaeda in Iraq, which lost the ability...paramilitary groups, known as Sons of Iraq.Ihab al-Sobai, a spokesman for the local Sons...

A week ago, the wild-eyed masses were calling for Tim Geithner's head. The newish US Treasury secretary was being blamed for

...Pakistani government did not know where al-Qaeda leaders were hiding and could not...Pakistan, reflect Washington's belief that al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden...against extremists but do not know where the al-Qaeda leaders are.But discussing al-Qaeda...

The concert Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall was devoted to songs of Franz Schubert. But this was no ordinary garden-variety

Sir Howard Stringer was not short of advice about what should go into the strategy announcement which he unveiled yesterday.

...matter this autumn when it hears Harris v. Jones. For the US retail mutual fund industry, Harris v. Jones is "the most important litigation...rejected by a lower court.The case, Gallus et al. v. Ameriprise, centres on complaints from...

...government did not know the hiding places of al-Qaeda leaders and could not "get at them...which reflect Washington's belief that al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden...Several intelligence reports suggested al-Qaeda's central command was scattered...

Israeli police stormed the compound of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque yesterday, firing stun grenades to disperse Palestinian protesters who had pelted them with rocks in the latest eruption...