Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Timberland and Sun Microsystems spearhead a campaign to set ambitious global warming targets as a policy battle on climate change looms ... more

The Troubled Asset Relief Programme must remain the firewall against financial collapse. It must not become pork-barrel investor of first resort

The defeat of Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator, when Alaska's senate race was finally declared on Tuesday night chalked up one more seat for ... more

The Daily Mail's publisher reports a 9% fall in full-year profit, while competitors announce a pay freeze and job cuts.

French car company Peugeot Citroen announces plans to shed 2,700 jobs because of falling demand in Europe.

Microsoft's boss tells the firm's annual general meeting that it is no longer looking to buy Yahoo.

Europe's biggest airline measured by turnover says it will continue to be affected by deteriorating economic conditions but it expects to remain profitable at the ... more

Cem Ozdemir's dream is to forge a society where no one is marginalised as the country struggles to integrate its ethnic Turks, many of whom ... more

The Spanish bank's 1.8m British investors will not have the opportunity to take up their rights in its fundraising after it decided there is not ... more

An explosion at an anti-government protest site in central Bangkok has killed one person and wounded 24 others, further raising the temperature in Thailand's bitterly ... more

Japan's exports logged their biggest annual decline in seven years in October, pushing the trade balance into deficit and reinforcing worries the global financial crisis ... more

The early deployment of third-generation mobile services could kickstart changes in China's telecom market, which have yet to materialise following a sector-wide restructuring

Dmitry Medvedev will begin a tour of Latin America in a move that experts say is motivated primarily by Moscow's desire to show it can ... more

Peru is close to issuing its first sovereign bond since it earned an investment grade rating this year, according to Luis Valdivieso, finance minister. Mr ... more

In a decision likely to intensify investor concerns about Argentina, legislators have recommended the expropriation of the debt-laden flag carrier, Aerolineas...

Look familiar? Microsoft released the anticipated face-lift for its Xbox 360 game console and online service today, dubbed the New Xbox Experience (or NXE).…

Chalk it up as a footnote to history but the company at one time thought about doing just that. Does it make sense to brush ... more

Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich talks to CNET News' Dan Farber about the future of the Firefox browser and about competing with Google, Microsoft, Apple and ... more

The car maintenance and bike seller said sales had slowed since the end of September as it sought to sell more high margin products

When U.S. housing recovers, the leading homebuilders may not be the ones to benefit.

The global financial institution may have trouble getting new cash since the usual contributors are strapped.

Mortgage lending rose by nearly 7% between September and October, figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show.

Figures out later from the Office for National Statistics are likely to show a continued slowdown on the High Street in October.

Mortgage rates are on the way down today, with two banks - Westpac and Kiwibank, cutting rates in anticipation of another Official Cash Rate cut. ... more