Last Updated, 7:32 p.m. During a visit to Germany that coincided with somber commemorations of Hitler’s rise to power eight decades ago on Wednesday, Egypt’s president was pressed several times to explain anti-Semitic comments he made in 2010, when he called Israelis “bloodsuckers” and “the descendants of apes and pigs.” ...
BEREZNIKI, Russia — Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian fertilizer tycoon who in February bought the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York City — the $88 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West — may have done a lot for real estate values there. But here in this old mining ...
The SEC has accused Citigroup of deceiving investors about the quality of mortgage-related securities it sold them. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A federal appeals court has delayed proceedings in a mortgage securities fraud case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Citigroup.
Nikos Pilos for The New York Times Hara Kefalidou is a newly elected member of the Greek Parliament. IN her tiny office here, Hara Kefalidou rolled her eyes remembering the days just after her letter was first published in the conservative daily Kathimerini. In that letter, Ms. Kefalidou, a newly ...
Protestors gathered outside the News Corp. annual shareholder meeting in Los Angeles on Friday. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Rupert Murdoch faced an onslaught from irate News Corp. shareholders on Friday over the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the company in recent months.
Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Police faced demonstrators associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Times Square on Saturday. More Photos » Buoyed by the longevity of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Manhattan, a wave of protests swept across Asia, the Americas and Europe on Saturday, ...
Lucas Baiano, the former Tim Pawlenty adman who has become infamous for his Michael Bay-like over-the-top political ads, complete with explosive sound effects and over-the-top rhetoric, has produced a new ad for Rick Perry on Romneycare. It’s getting a lot of play in conservative circles. The ad opens with President ...
On a day when Americans watched nervously as its government sought to contend with unprecedented turmoil and peril in the economic and political life of the country, the US Senate put aside all divisions and partisan politics to act decisively and unanimously to express support for “promoting increased awareness, diagnosis ...
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO — Larry Page should put in a call to Bill Gates. Microsoft Corp.’s famous founder may know better than anyone else what the Google Inc. chief executive would face if he engages in a protracted legal battle against U.S. antitrust regulators. Google said on Friday that the Federal ...
I’m not a smoker, nor do I consider myself an ex-smoker. I don’t know what it’s like to “need” a cigarette. I do know, however, what it’s like not to be able to take a breath as lifelong asthma sufferer. I’ve been into tobacco ever since the third grade, though, ...
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by two of Bernard Madoff’s former customers accusing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of negligence for failing to uncover the now-imprisoned swindler’s Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the plaintiffs, Phyllis Molchatsky ...
Moises Saman for The New York Times Moussa Koussa, a top Libyan official who fled to Britain last week, at news conference in Tripoli on March 18. WASHINGTON — The Obama administration dropped financial sanctions on Monday against the top Libyan official who fled to Britain last week, saying it ...
HELSINKI — Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smart phone market. In a major change of strategy, Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its smart phones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop’s overhaul of ...
HELSINKI — Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smart phone market. In a major change of strategy, Nokia said it would use Windows Phone as the software platform for its smart phones as part of new chief executive Stephen Elop’s overhaul of ...
MUMBAI: Country’s top two stock exchanges NSE and BSE today asked marketmen to be extra careful about trade in over 1,900 securities, sensing a high-level of risk in executing trade on these counters. While most of these securities are little known, there are also stocks of some well-known companies such ...
LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. Carl ...
NEW YORK — Foreclosure-fraud class action lawsuits are starting to pile up against major banks across the U.S., threatening a besieged industry with billions more in potential losses. Bank executives are swarming Capitol Hill this week to defend themselves against multiple foreclosure-related investigations, including one by all 50 state attorneys ...
