Microsoft Corp. is buying Nokia Corp.'s line-up of smartphones and a portfolio of patents and services in an attempt to mount a more formidable challenge to Apple Inc. and Google Inc. as more...

Maggie Edinger, 26, is in a cosy relationship. It's predictable and relaxing. She's in that phase, she said, "where you start wearing sweatpants and completing each other's...

Coca-Cola keeps the recipe for its 127-year-old soda inside an imposing steel vault that's bathed in red security lights. Several cameras monitor the area to make sure the fizzy formula stays a...

Gold is having a summer revival.   The price of gold touched $1,420 an ounce this week, a three-and-a-half month high, as escalating tensions in the Middle East, volatile currency markets...

Malta is one of only 12 EU member states that have fully complied in time with EU rules on hedge funds, according to research published this week by audit firm KPMG. The remaining 16 were found...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she'll press for progress on financial regulation at next week's summit of global economic powers, which comes ahead of Sept. 22 elections in which...

Germany's labour ministry has banned managers from calling or emailing staff out of hours except in emergencies.   The ministry says the measure is intended to prevent staff from...

In July, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) confirmed that they have designated the Malta Stock Exchange as a ‘designated offshore securities...

Fast-food workers protested Thursday in U.S. cities including New York, Chicago and Detroit, with organizers expecting the biggest national walkouts yet in a demand for higher wages.   The...

    The Central Bank of Malta is publishing on its website the fifth edition of its annual Financial Stability Report, covering the year 2012 and the first months of 2013. The Report...