This week the world was given what some have called its first "YouTube martyr" after Neda Agha Soltani was shot dead and her final moments caught on camera. The footage then made its way onto YouTube and most major media outlets began showing the graphic and disturbing pictures of a woman ...

Microsoft Corp. unveiled its latest attempt in beating the likes of Google and Yahoo with Bing. The search engine intends to provide users with enhanced decision making capabilities that other search engines fail to do.

Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons has apologised for his role in the expenses scandal which is rocking Parliament and added that all MP's needed to accept responsibility for the resulting damage that has been done to Parliament's reputation.

Mining shares have turned red hot this year after a disastrous 2008 and are set to keep outpacing other sectors as the top beneficiaries of growing optimism that a global recession will be shorter than feared.

The think-tank LEAP/E2020 directed an open letters at the leaders of the upcoming G-20 summit, to prevent the global economic crisis of becoming worse. LEAP/E2020 has an excellent insight into all matters regarding the crisis, as it was about the first to issue a warning of an upcoming severe crisis...

Shares in Britain's smaller companies are likely to be the worst affected by a crackdown in spending by a government faced with a big budget deficit from bailing out the country's banks.

With Obama's presidency in full swing, its clear that the president is 'hoping for change' as his election manifesto so eloquently put forward.

A revised bailout of American International Group (AIG.N) may be just another "band-aid" solution, but more than five months after it was first rescued by the government the option of letting the insurer fail would still be considered too big a shock to already fragile global markets.

The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates by half a percentage point to a record low of 0.5 percent next week and start buying assets with newly created money to boost the economy.

Angry investors may feel vindicated as President Barack Obama seeks to raise taxes on hedge fund and private equity fund profits, but critics caution the proposal will not raise significant money for years and may be watered down or fail to pass Congress.

British wholesale natural gas prices could fall further following a price collapse over the past two weeks and this is certain to add to pressure on utilities to cut household fuel bills.

The prospects for equity markets and numerous sector indexes have dimmed during the global recession, but gold and the companies that mine it have not lost their lustre.

You might not think it given the unremittingly bad news from Wall Street, but now might be the best time in years to try to start up a bank.

The financial crisis still has at least six months to run and global economic growth will almost come to a standstill this year, a Reuters poll showed.

With a single 13 billion pound deal, China will acquire a sizeable chunk of the raw materials it needs to grow its economy, and state-owned Chinalco grows from a provincial powerhouse to a diversified global player.

JP Morgan Chase chief Executive Jamie Dimon will call for regulatory modernization as a necessary component of long-term recovery for the economy.

As four of the country's top bankers appear before the Treasury select committee, public outrage is mounting at the size of bankers' salaries and bonuses.

Being at the helm of Switzerland's best-known bank might once have been the pinnacle of a Swiss banker's ambition, but few today envy UBS chief executive Marcel Rohner as he struggles to rebuild the battered bank.

Cowed commodity markets began buzzing last week with a tantalising notion: China's economic recovery is nigh, traders said, just look at the surge in freight rates and sudden burst of import demand.