Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed as “positive” the US decision to shelve controversial missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Mr Medvedev said there were now “good conditions” for US-Russia talks on tackling missile proliferation.
US President Barack Obama had earlier announced there would be a shift in US missile defence strategy, following a [...]

Five current and former directors of Bank of America have been subpoenaed by the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, according to sources….
They are likely to be asked how much they knew of Merrill Lynch’s problems and bonuses when they agreed to buy it.
Bank of America saved Merrill Lynch from collapse a year [...]

Rosemont Associates, After deal with the U.S the Swiss government sells shares for a profit.
The Swiss Government has sold its shares in UBS a day after the announcement that the Swiss government would hand over client data from the bank to the U.S government.
The Swiss made a profit on their shares as they sold a [...]

Days before his landslide election win, Yukio Hatoyama ruffled feathers in Washington with an essay in the New York Times…
Hitting out at US-led globalisation, he said many Asian nations wanted to see America’s “political and economic excesses” restrained.
US military might was key to regional stability, he said, but stronger ties with regional neighbours were also [...]

Super-fast and ultra-small computers have been brought one step closer to reality with the successful test of a new penny-sized chip…
The optical quantum chip does away with traditional circuitry and instead uses particles of “whizzing” light.
Scientists asked the “photonic” chip to find the prime factors of 15 and, although it took longer to work it [...]

Unions are being urged to back a motion to keep in public hands a rail franchise taken over by the government after the operator made big losses.
Rail union Aslef has started a campaign to keep the East Coast Main Line service permanently nationalised.
National Express lost the contract for services between London and Scotland when it [...]

Iran must answer concerns about its nuclear program ‘head on’ in any negotiations, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
Clinton, speaking to reporters in the US on Tuesday, added that a six-power meeting with Iran on October 1 will test Iran’s readiness to discuss international concerns about its uranium enrichment program.
‘We have made clear to [...]

The world’s largest social networking site just got bigger with the announcement it has 300 million active monthly users from around the globe.
Facebook also revealed that it had started making money ahead of schedule.
The company had not expected to start turning a profit until sometime in 2010.
“This is important to us because it sets Facebook [...]

Apple boss Steve Jobs stole the show at an event to launch new products as he took to the stage for the first time in nearly a year following medical leave.
Mr Jobs returned to work at the end of June after taking a six-month break to recover from a liver transplant.
After a long summer of [...]

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