World stocks rose Wednesday as investors stayed calm in the face of a possible debt default by Greece to search for good deals in technology shares boosted by stunning results from Apple Inc.Benchmark ...

World champ Nick Matthew and James Willstrop, who recently ousted him from the world No.1 ranking, will continue their decade of contention in the final of the first World Series tournament of the year.

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World leaders at Davos now operate in a new atmosphere of popular discontent and economic turmoil in which even democracies have been shaken and disillusioned.

The World Bank is moving to shore up economies in eastern Europe and central Asia as fear intensifies that problems in the euro area have begun spilling over to other parts of the world. The bank announced on Wednesday it would commit $27 billion to protect developing nations in the region from a western European crisis that has begun to undercut trade and investment. Read full article >>

World stock markets were mostly higher Thursday after the U.S. central bank pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery.

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The list of nominees for the Group 1 Dubai World Cup features an international cast of some of racing's current and rising stars, as well as a number of trainers who have previously won the world's richest race.

LONDON (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Wednesday it would make $27 billion (17 billion pound) available in funding over the next two years to eastern European and central Asian countries that are being hard hit by the crisis in the euro zone, a $7 billion boost from 2011 levels. The bank said in a statement that the crisis in the single currency zone was impacting the region's emerging ...

Payday lender World Acceptance Corp. on Wednesday said that its fiscal third-quarter profit rose 8 percent as the number of loans it wrote increased and it opened 12 new offices.