NEW YORK (Reuters) - A winter blizzard moved across the northeastern United States on Monday, disrupting air and rail travel and forcing motorists to deal with blowing snow and icy roads at the end of the busy Christmas weekend.
27/12/2010 10:07 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank took aim at inflation once again on Monday by saying it will control lending and money growth in the world's second-biggest economy to head off price pressures and asset bubbles.
27/12/2010 09:33 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate hopeful Joe Miller has dropped his bid to stop write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski from being certified the winner of Alaska's November 2 election but will challenge the results in federal court.
27/12/2010 10:10 AM
LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese shares slid and European stocks followed suit on Monday as the impact of China's Christmas Day interest rate rise sunk in to thin markets.
27/12/2010 08:44 AM
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's NATO-led force disputed on Monday an Afghan government accusation that foreign forces had violated a security pact by conducting a night raid in Kabul in which two guards were killed.
27/12/2010 09:54 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama likely will announce a replacement for key economic adviser Lawrence Summers by mid-January, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday.
26/12/2010 12:58 PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian judge pronounced Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev guilty of embezzlement on Monday at the end of the jailed former oil tycoon's politically charged second trial.
27/12/2010 08:49 AM
ROME (Reuters) - Bomb disposal experts disarmed a device sent to the Greek embassy in Rome on Monday, days after parcel bombs claimed by an Italian anarchist group wounded two people at the Swiss and Chilean missions.
27/12/2010 10:00 AM
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called for national solidarity against military aggression by the North on Monday, saying Pyongyang looks for division in the South as an opportunity to strike.
27/12/2010 08:53 AM
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara has called for a nationwide general strike from Monday to paralyze the country until internationally isolated incumbent Laurent Gbagbo cedes power.
27/12/2010 07:49 AM
