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Bangladesh elections 2014: Awami League wins boycotted poll
Bangladeshi ruling party Awami League has won a violent general election whose outcome was never in doubt, after a boycott by the main opposition...
Liz Cheney drops out of Wyoming Senate race
Liz Cheney has decided to drop out of the Senate primary after her bid to unseat Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi sparked a round of...
Bitcoin tops $1,000 again as Zynga begins testing virtual currency as a payment option
Bitcoin’s value has topped $1,000 again after social gaming firm Zynga said it would start accepting the virtual currency as a payment option. Zynga is...
Bangladesh election 2014: Clashes in boycotted poll
Bangladeshi opposition activists and police clashed as the country is holding a general election boycotted by the opposition. At least three people were killed in...
BlackBerry files lawsuit against Ryan Seacrest’s company over Typo keyboard case
BlackBerry has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the company co-founded by Ryan Seacrest that makes a keyboard case for the iPhone. On Friday, BlackBerry...
Adam Smith dead: George Goodman dies from myelofibrosis at 83
Author and economics broadcast commentator George Goodman, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith, has died at the age of 83. His son, Mark Goodman,...
US car sales disappoint in December 2013
GM has reported a fall in car sales in December in what was a disappointing month for US car makers. GM stocks fell 2.4% after...
Manmohan Singh to retire after polls
India’s PM Manmohan Singh has announced that he will not stay in the post if his Congress party wins the next election, due in...
Fiat shares jump more than 15% after Chrysler deal
Fiat shares have jumped more than 15 percent following the announcement of its plan to buy the remaining 41% of Chrysler it does not...
Rob Ford files re-election paper for Toronto municipal poll
Disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has filed re-election papers. Rob Ford - who admitted to once smoking crack cocaine while in a "drunken stupor" -...
Fiat buys remaining 41% stake in Chrysler
Fiat has agreed to buy the remaining 41% of Chrysler it does not own in a move that will create the world's seventh-largest car...
Latvia joins eurozone on New Year’s Day
Latvia has joined the eurozone as of 1st of January 2014, becoming the 18th member of the group of EU states which uses the...
Bill de Blasio sworn in as New York City’s new mayor
Bill de Blasio, the first Democrat in more than two decades, has been sworn in as the new mayor of New York City. Bill de...
ObamaCare health reforms come into effect
Millions of people in the US receive health insurance cover for the first time as ObamaCare healthcare reforms - Affordable Act Care - come...
Harold Simmons dies at Baylor University Medical Center aged 82
One of America's wealthiest men, Dallas billionaire and philanthropist Harold Simmons, died Saturday night at the age of 82. Harold Simmons’ wife, Annette, told The...
France: 75% tax on high income gets approval
France's highest court has approved a 75% tax on high income. The new tax is one of President Francois Hollande's signature policies. The initial proposal to...
Cuba eases restrictions on loans to private borrowers
Cuba has decided to ease restrictions on loans to private borrowers in the latest measure aimed at boosting the island's troubled economy. Individuals and small...
Croatia charges Farmal and 364 people over drugs bribes
Croatian authorities have charged pharmaceutical company Farmal and 364 people - most of them reportedly doctors - for allegedly rigging the drugs market. Senior managers...
Millions of jobless Americans to lose unemployment benefits in 2014
An estimated 1.3 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits after an emergency federal program expired on Saturday. Lawmakers failed to agree on an extension...
GM recalls 1.5 million Buick and Chevrolet cars in China
About 1.5 million Buick and Chevrolet cars are being recalled by General Motors and its partner company in China amid concerns about their potential...
Robert W. Wilson comits suicide at 87
New York hedge-fund founder Robert W. Wilson has died at 87 in an apparent suicide. He committed his life to giving the fortune he made...
Turkey: PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces major cabinet reshuffle
Turkey’s PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced a major cabinet reshuffle after three ministerial resignations over a corruption inquiry. Recep Tayyip Erdogan named 10 new...
ObamaCare help offered amid run-up to deadline
The US government has offered help to people who missed the December 24 deadline to enroll for the ObamaCare. The government said anyone who failed...
Target data breach: Hackers stole encrypted PIN’s from consumer bank accounts
According to specialists familiar with Target security breach, the hackers who compromised up to 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to...
Target sued by 11 customers over credit card security breach
Target is being sued by at least 11 customers over a credit card security breach that saw details of more than 40 million cards...
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