Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization) has added Julian Assange to their wanted list for sex crimes with two Sweden women he met in a trip related to Wikileaks...

China says its economy has maintained robust growth in the third quarter of 2010, but at a slightly lower rate. Official figures show a drop from just over...

Toyota has announced a recall of more than 1.5 million cars worldwide over brake and fuel pump defects. The carmaker said the decision affected certain Avalon, Highlander and...

Credit Suisse's profits fell 74% in the third quarter, thanks to choppy stock markets hitting its investment bank. The Swiss bank earned 609m Swiss francs ($630m, £400m) during...

BAE Systems has said that the impact on its business of the UK government's defence cuts will only be "modest". While the defence group has been hit by...

UK retail sales fell again September, the second month in succession they have declined, official data has shown. Sales last month were 0.2% lower than August, led by...

Chancellor George Osborne has defended the "fairness" of his UK spending cuts after Labour claims they were reckless and would hit the poorest hardest. He told the BBC...

French workers will step up their protests against pension reforms next week, a top trade union leader says. Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT workers' confederation, made the...

China says its economy has maintained robust growth in the third quarter of 2010, but at a slightly lower rate. Official figures show a drop from just over...

The number of people dying from malaria in India has been hugely underestimated, according to new research. The data, published in the Lancet, suggests there are 13 times...

A Belgian woman convicted of murdering her fellow skydiver and love rival by sabotaging her parachute is due to be sentenced. Els Clottemans, aged 26, faces between three...

Kanye West says he's thought about killing himself, but now feels a responsibility to make a meaningful contribution to pop culture and art. The 33-year-old rapper didn't say...

Pop heart-throbs JLS and hip-hop MC Tinie Tempah shared the major spoils at the Mobo (Music of Black Origin) Awards in Liverpool, winning two prizes each. Former X...

Russian musician Yulianna Avdeeva has become the first woman to win the prestigious Chopin Piano Competition in 45 years in Warsaw, Poland. Ms Avdeeva, 25, who won £26,506,...

Veteran US actor Tom Bosley, most famous for playing all-American father Howard Cunningham in the 1970s TV series Happy Days, has died aged 83. The star, who had...

The Chinese Basketball Association has apologised for a fight which broke out during a friendly match against a visiting team from Brazil. The game on Tuesday degenerated into...

The Tour de France will mark 100 years since the race first went over the Col du Galibier by visiting the legendary Alpine climb twice in 2011. The...

Casey Stoner has won the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island for the fourth successive year. Having earned pole position on his 25th birthday on Saturday, the Australian Ducati...

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button must beat Mark Webber in Korea on Sunday to have any chance of winning the title, says McLaren engineer Phil Prew. Red Bull...

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is eager to stop the Wayne Rooney issue from becoming a "saga". Striker Rooney, 24, says he wants to leave the club,...

China is trying to prevent a report which says Chinese bullets have been used against peacekeepers in Darfur from being published, diplomats say. The report is being discussed...

President Obama leaves Wednesday afternoon for a four-day swing through the West, where he will focus on shoring up his party's midterm election prospects in a set of...

NEW YORK -- Rangers people clearly have to like their chances in their series with the Yankees now that they are up 3-1. And they just as clearly...