Claims 348K 364K 361K USD Fed Chairman Bernanke Speaks Feb. 17 GBP Retail Sales (MoM) 0.9% -0.2% 0.6% CAD Core CPI (MoM) 0.2% 0.1% -0.5% USD Core CPI (MoM) 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% USD CPI (MoM) 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% Sovereign Bond Auction Schedule Feb 20-24 n/a UK 0.375%...

“The country is surrounded by enemies, it’s always on the edge of extinction, but it expands and prospers.” The Israeli gauge returned 161 percent including dividends over the last decade, the third-best performance among developed markets after...

An overseas Tibetan news service says Chinese police have detained a Tibetan writer in a western county hit by anti-government protests as China's crackdown against persisting unrest spreads. The Voice of Tibet, which is based in Norway, says that more...

Aker Solutions, Norway’s flagship oil services company, reported a strong jump in fourth-quarter sales, reassuring investors concerned that a weak global economy could hurt oil investments. Sales rose by 18 per cent, faster than all forecasts in a...

Germany (AP) - Slovenia won a team ski jumping World Cup event Sunday, ahead of Austria and Norway. The competition was cut short after the first series of jumps because of wind and snow. Slovenia's Peter Prevc had the longest jump of the day at 225.5...

Norway-based Telenor is likely to claim the cost of losing Indian telecom licences from Unitech, its partner from whom the company is parting ways, said Telenor's Asia head. "We have served an indemnity notice (to Unitech). The damages will be the cost...

Mumbai: Norway’s Telenor ASA, the majority shareholder in the troubled domestic telecom joint venture, Uninor, has begun looking for a new partner that it intends to bring on board before a fresh auctioning of radio spectrum. Telenor will choose a...

Shame on me for not having sorted the photos and written about it yet! The forth time was when we went to the bigger blog gathering in Olso, Norway in August 2010, arranged by Renny and Diane, with wonderful bloggers from around the world participating...

The competition was cut short after the first series of jumps because of wind and snow. Slovenia's Peter Prevc had the longest jump of the day at 225.5 metres, though he lost his balance on the landing. Slovenia had 732.5 points for the four jumps. ...

OBERSTDORF, Germany (AP) - Slovenia won a team ski jumping World Cup event Sunday, ahead of Austria and Norway. The competition was cut short after the first series of jumps because of wind and snow. Slovenia's Peter Prevc had the longest jump of the...

The BJP Mahila Morcha activists staged the protest outside the Embassy in Chanakyapuri area. BJP leader Sushma Swaraj had yesterday extended her party's support to the issue and asked the government to take "firm and decisive" action on Norway's...

Malekpour's case has received attention from many in the International community. Statements in support of him have been released by the European Union, British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the U.S. State Department and foreign ministries of Norway...

As the Dutch currency strengthened it made non-oil exports less competitive. Manufacturing sectors declined and the economy soured. Israel's fund will be similar that of Norway, which has one of the world's largest wealth funds to safeguard its natural...

Next In the two decades since Jim Preacher arrived in rural Norway, he's been this tiny town's police chief, self-proclaimed constable and now the mayor. He's pulled over a state trooper who wrote him a speeding ticket, and sneaked into town hall before...

Nesbitt from Canada races to place second in the 500m World Cup speedskating event in Hamar, Norway, Saturday Feb. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Terje Bendiksby, Scanpix Norway) Overall World Cup leader Christine Nesbitt won the women's 1,500-metre race with a...

People who offered to talk about Preacher and the town's problems after the meeting didn't answer phone calls or return messages. Preacher and the four-member Town Council have quite a task in front of them. Norway has lost 42 percent of its population...

Continue reading the main story Ease of doing business ranking 1 Singapore 2 Hong Kong SAR 3 New Zealand 4 United States 5 Denmark 6 Norway 7 United Kingdom 8 Korea, Republic 9 Iceland 10 Ireland Source: World Bank 2012 Less than 10 years later,...

51 kg/112.25 lbs. (Gator WC), 2nd WIN Anri Kimura (Japan), 1-0, 1-0 WIN Fredrika Petersson (Sweden), 1-0, 3-0 LOSS Risako Kawaii (Japan), 0-1, 0-1 51 kg/112.25 lbs. (Sunkist Kids), 3rd WIN Karoline Leite (Norway), 6-4, pin 1:15 LOSS Risako Kawaii...

S.C. (AP) - Jim Preacher couldn't wait nine more days to become mayor of the tiny town of Norway. So he had a friend climb into Town Hall through an unlocked window and let him in so he could change the locks and take over the town's checkbook. He's...