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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Moscow for a key international meeting on the Middle East peace process. She also meets with Russian leaders on efforts to conclude a new big-power nuclear arms reduction accord.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has begun her first official trip to the Middle East, Deutsche Welle reports. Ashton has kicked off her first official trip to the Middle East with tough talk for Israel.

Today, Moody's is again hinting about sovereign credit downgrades for the U.S. and UK..As Bloomberg writes:The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, accordin...

Yongnam Holdings (Y02.SG) has gained 1.9% to hit two-month high of $0.27 in active trade, extending Friday’s 10.4% gain, reported Dow Jones Newswires. Newsflow on construction group has been thin since release of 4Q09 results late last month, but investor interest unabated based on expectations Yongnam well-positioned to land ...

Jenson Button, one of the most popular and the hottest drivers today, has recently won the Formula One World Championship. But people are hoping that he still have a space left for one more trophy on his display room. During the latest Laureus World Sports Awards hosted in Abu Dhabi, Jenson ...

Indian hospital chain Fortis Healthcare (FOHE.BO) will buy 23.9% of Singapore’s Parkway Holdings (PARM.SI) from US buyout firm TPG Capital in an expansion drive into Asia and the Middle East. The $959 million deal will give Fortis a foothold in Singapore and Malaysia and make it the biggest private ...

AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing a $35.5 billion deal for its Asian life-insurance operations with Britain’s Prudential, the firm, which is being dismembered to recoup bail-out ...

Some innovations help women more than othersTWO recent innovations have garnered a lot of attention for the way they empower women. One is microcredit, a system of lending to very poor people, the majority of whom are female microentrepreneurs who are thus helped to climb out of poverty. The other ...

Photo by Kathryn Yu On April 20 in North America (April 19 internationally), Canadian psych traveler Caribou will release the new album Swim. We've already dropped a BNM on teaser single "Odessa". If you were hoping that Dan ...

In 2008, Athens scuzz-rock survivors Harvey Milk cranked out Life... The Best Game in Town, a crushing slab of bottom-heavy, generally unfriendly metal that landed them in our Best New Music section. On May 18, they'll follow ...

RIYADH (Agencies) – India is willing to walk the “extra mile” to open a new chapter in relations with Pakistan but it must act decisively against terrorism, Prime Minister Manm-ohan Singh asserted Monday. Addressing the Majlis Al-Shura or the Saudi Consultative Council here, ...

An election in deeply divided Iraq• IRAQIS finally go to the polls on Sunday March 7th to vote in their long-delayed national elections. But with many candidates barred from standing because of former ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party, sectarian rivalries have once more come to the fore. It is ...

Now get a classy look with gold platted cell phone. Nokia has released the Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition which is the N97 Mini in a gold plated shell. The phone is dressed in 18 carat gold along with the apps such as “ELLE 360Fashion” which helps the owner to follow ...

Hyflux (600.SG) has gained 0.6% at $3.62 but struggling to hold on to gains after pulling back from early high of $3.66 (+1.7%) on the back of record earnings in FY09. “Strengths are priced in and valuations are at par with peers, while we await more catalysts to trigger ...

Cityneon Holdings, the provider of event, exhibition and thematics services in Asia & Middle East, has reported group revenue of $90.4 million for the full year FY2009, or 88.9% higher compared to the FY2008’s revenue of $47.9 million. The group’s profit before tax for the year was $5.1 million ...

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Premiere Video and Announce U.S. Tour in Support of New Album, Kollaps Tradixionales Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) returns with its sixth full-length recording and first since the band's lineup change ...

According to Sir Elton John, Jesus was a gay lord. The singer made the controversial claim in a new US interview, reports The Sun. Elton, 62, said: “I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.” He added: “Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don”t ...

Sir Elton John sat down for an interesting interview — where he chats candidly on celebrity, his relationship with longtime partner David Furnish and his conviction that Jesus was gay — in this week’s issue of Parade. “I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On ...

India’s biggest mobile operator makes a fresh attempt to enter AfricaIN SIGNING up over 118m subscribers in India, Bharti Airtel, the country’s biggest mobile-phone operator, has ranged deep into the rural hinterland. In parts of the country, getting reliable reception is easier than finding reliable electricity. Take a ride in ...

Congressman Jason Chafetz just said that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11.A nutjob, right?Maybe.But he joins quite a few other Congressmen:According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Hea...