(REUTERS) -- Shareholders of European Gold fields overwhelmingly approved a C$2.5 billion ($2.5 billion) friendly takeover by Eldorado Gold on Tuesday, a move that will expand Eldorado's asset base in Greece and Turkey. European Goldfields said that more Full Article at International Business Times
U.S. Stocks advanced in trading Tuesday, sending the benchmarks to a four-year high after Greece scooped up a second bailout, refraining to join declines in European equities amid concerns the region's debt crisis will carry on. Treasuries waned and the Full Article at International Business Times
U.S. President Barack Obama stands next to U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden while speaking on the importance of the passage by Congress of the extension of the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance during an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office... View Photo »
I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists ... Moreover, I want to clarify that my administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American cit...
The Veterans for Ron Paul march on the White House went off without a hitch on Monday. Here's a photo slideshow of some of the best pictures uploaded by veterans, soldiers and other Paul supporters who participated in the successful "Ron Paul is the Choi Full Article at International Business Times
The top share index edged lower on Tuesday, with investors taking profit on banks and cyclicals after Greece secured a long-awaited bailout deal that averted the immediate risk of a messy default but offered no long-term panacea. London's blue chip index Full Article at International Business Times
What is Fat Tuesday? The History of Mardi Gras in New Orleans For most, Fat Tuesday conjures images of beads, beer, and the Big Easy, but the history of Mardi Gras in New Orleans begins in Roman Catholic Europe. Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday) is a C Full Article at International Business Times
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI - FEBRUARY 21: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a town hall meeting campaign stop at Eagle Manufacturing Corporation February 21, 2012 in Shelby Township, Michigan. Romney is... View Photo »
The Commission is determined to take any legal steps necessary to ensure that the compatibility with European Union legislation is maintained
In 2001, Lopez became the first and only celebrity to have the number one album, ‘J-Lo’ and the number one movie, ‘The Wedding Planner’ in the country. After marrying her backup dancer, Chris Judd, in a lavish ceremony, she seemed to have it all. Yet jus Full Article at International Business Times
Chris Brown and Rihanna have reunited for "Birthday Cake" and "Turn Up The Music," remixed singles that have fans questioning if the two are back together. But wait, wasn't it awkward for the exes to work together? (PHOTO: REUTERS / Lucas Jackson). Chris Full Article at International Business Times
European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier reads a file during an EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels February 21, 2012.
View Photo »European Investment Bank President Werner Hoyer (L) speaks with Danish Economy Minister Margrethe Vestager during an EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels February 21, 2012.
View Photo »(L to R) Danish minister for Economy Margrethe Vestager gestures prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on the two draft regulations on economic governance proposed by the Commission on 23...
View Photo »(L to R) Spanish Finance Minister Luis De Guindos, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Danish minister for Economy Margrethe Vestager, Portuguese finance minister Vitor Gaspar and Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012...
View Photo »(L to R) EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn and EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services France's Michel Barnieran arrive to an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on...
View Photo »(L to R) Danish minister for Economy Margrethe Vestager and Austrian Federal Finance Minister Maria Fekter talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on the two draft regulations on economic...
View Photo »(L to R) President of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer and Danish minister for Economy Margrethe Vestager talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on the two draft regulations on...
View Photo »(L to R) EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn and German Finance State Secretary Jorg Asmussen talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on the two draft regulations on...
View Photo »(L to R) British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services Frenchman Michel Barnier talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council will try to reach a general approach on the two...
View Photo »Former First Lady Laura Bush, second from right, rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange before in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. U.S. stocks are opening higher and the Dow Jones industrial average is nearing 13,000 after Greece secured a bailout deal to keep it from...
View Photo »(L to R) Chief executive of the European Financial Stability Facility Klaus Regling, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Austrian Federal Finance Minister Maria Fekter talk prior an ECOFIN meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. The Council...
View Photo »Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. U.S. stocks are opening higher and the Dow Jones industrial average is nearing 13,000 after Greece secured a bailout deal to keep it from default.
View Photo »Former First Lady Laura Bush greets traders on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange before ringing the opening bell in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.
View Photo »Danish Trade and Investment Minister Pia Olsen Dyhr (R) shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba (L) prior to their talks at Gemba's office in Tokyo on February 21, 2012. Dyhr is visiting to exchange views with Japanese officials as the chair country minister of the...
View Photo »Pakistani workers dye traditional scarves outside a shop at a busy market in Islamabad on February 21, 2012. The World Trade Organization (WTO) passed the waivers as an unprecedented concession in order to help Pakistan recover from the floods, yet in 2011, the business climate had...
View Photo »Preparations continue on a stage at the Mesa Arts Center for Wednesday nights GOP presidential debate hosted by CNN and the Republican Party of Arizona on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012,. MANDATORY CREDIT, ARIZONA REPUBLIC OUT.
View Photo »Tim Chae gazes out a window where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View February 16, 2012. Chae, 20, a Babson College dropout, has raised a small amount of capital for his company, Post Rocket, is seeking...
View Photo »Tim Chae poses for a photo near pictures of his business partners, where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View February 16, 2012. Chae, 20, a Babson College dropout, has raised a small amount of capital for...
View Photo »Tim Chae is seen in an office space where he attends "500 Startups," a crash course for young companies run by a funding firm of the same name, in Mountain View February 16, 2012. Chae, 20, a Babson College dropout, has raised a small amount of capital for his company, Post Rocket, is...
View Photo »Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos arrives for press conference after an Eurogroup Council meeting on February 21, 2012 at EU headquarters in Brussels. An unprecedented roughly 230-billion-euro (300 billion USD) bailout package agreed on February 21 will 'secure Greece's future...
View Photo »German Finance Minister Wolfgan Schaeuble gives a joint press after an Eurogroup Council meeting on February 21, 2012 at EU headquarters in Brussels. An unprecedented roughly 230-billion-euro (300 billion USD) bailout package agreed on February 21 will 'secure Greece's future in the...
View Photo »The seal of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors is pictured as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers opening remarks at a conference on "Small Business and Entrepreneurship during an Economic Recovery" in Washington, in this November 9, 2011 file photograph. Federal Reserve...
View Photo »International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) and Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker give a press conference following an Eurozone meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. An unprecedented roughly...
View Photo »Luxembourg Prime Minister and Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Juncker scratches his eyes during a press conference following an Eurozone meeting on February 21, 2012 at the EU Headquarters in Brussels. An unprecedented roughly 230-billion-euro (300 billion USD) bailout package agreed on...
View Photo »U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the outlook for the U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this February 7, 2012 file photograph. Federal Reserve officials' exploration of a different way to...
View Photo »European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier reads a file during an EU finance ministers meeting in Brussels February 21, 2012.
View Photo »They may have voted ‘no’ on these tax cuts once but I’m already filled with the Christmas spirit … so I’m in the Christmas spirit [and] I want to give them another chance
His biggest splash of the night came when he defended four Marines seen urinating on Afghan corpses in a video that surfaced last week. Perry criticized members of the Obama administration for calling the Marines' actions ‘despicable.’ … But even after cheers from the crowd, the debate quickly moved on ...
Now is the time to confront [climate change[ once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious
Rep. Ron Paul can count on support from some members of the world's oldest profession as he campaigns for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination ... Prostitutes at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel outside Carson City, Nevada, have launched a ‘Pimpin for Paul’ campaign for the Texas liberta...
The best thing you can do is put the best teacher you can possibly find and afford in front of the classroom and if you have to have fewer because there’s only a certain number of dollars to go around, I’m in favor of that
For all its success in congressional races, the GOP's right wing repeatedly has failed to unite behind a ‘movement conservative’ to be the party's White House nominee. It happened in 2008 with John McCain, and in 1996 with Bob Dole ... Now social conservatives fear it's happening again in, of all places...
And double the class size with a better teacher is a good deal for the students
Convention officials are expected to announce the venue this morning at a news conference at the stadium. … The move to the Carolina Panthers' 74,000-seat stadium would replicate the 2008 convention, where Obama accepted the nomination at a packed Invesco Field in Denver.
If I had the ability to just design the system and say ex cathedra this is what we’re going to do you would cut the number of teachers in half and weed out all the bad ones
Obama organized his White House under the heavy-handed Rahm Emanuel and the uber-executive Bill Daley. Now maybe he has got it right with his newly appointed third chief of staff
We’ve gotta keep fighting
After 60 days of fanning out petitions across the state, United Wisconsin, the group organizing the recall effort for Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, will turn in their gathered signatures to the Government Accountability Board of Wisconsin
If they opted in, that data was sent anonymously, and in encrypted fashion. We did not record keystrokes, messages or any personal information for the diagnostic data, and we have no plans to in the future.
Obama gave us radical ‘Obamacare,’ that was based on ‘Romneycare.’ Obama’s a liberal on social issues. Romney once bragged he’s even more liberal than Ted Kennedy on social issues. Why would we ever vote for someone who is just like Obama — when we can unite around Rick Santorum and beat Obama?
Some of it has to do with a tragic history. But we can't keep using that as an excuse ... What makes a man is not the ability to have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Steve Jobs is not a product, so I don’t think Apple has the copyright of him.
We never recorded keystrokes, messages or any other personal information for diagnostic data and have no plans to ever do so
Romney’s current 37% support is tied for the highest enjoyed by any Republican candidate in Gallup Daily tracking of Republican preferences so far this election cycle, and marks a 13-percentage-point increase in support from his five-day average that ended Jan. 2, just before the Iowa caucuses.
We still have a health care system that has to get more efficient and that has to improve its quality
There is no disagreement with the institutions of the European Union on the importance of basic principles, common European values and achievements
Today we come together across countries, cultures and faiths to combat the pandemic of AIDS
there is plausible evidence of anticompetitive harm -- that is, harm to competition rather than individual rivals like Bing, Twitter, or Facebook. My personal view ... is that there is no such evidence.
We’re starting to see just a hint of a response out of Congress ... Over the last couple of days, Mr. Boehner and Mr. McConnell have both indicated that it probably does make sense not to have taxes go up for middle-class families, particularly since they’ve all taken an oath not to raise taxes.
Our next big launch is on Facebook. We’re going to put real games on it
Now, I know you hear a lot of folks on cable TV claiming that I’m this big tax-and-spend liberal
