When candidates from across the political spectrum remind us of the promises in their electoral manifesto, one is excused for forgetting to be realistic. The stark reality is that not everything in...

A car that tells your insurance company how you're driving. A bathroom scale that lets you chart your weight on the Web. And a meter that warns your air conditioner when electricity gets more...

Mobile money may seem like a hot concept, but consumers aren't warming to it.   At the world's largest cellphone trade show, here in Barcelona this week, the 70,000 attendees are...

President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans failed to find a compromise that would have blocked an $85 billion budget reduction. Now, spending cuts will start to hit the U.S. military and a...

Italy's voters gave their messy verdict on the austerity medicine they've been forced to take when they went to the polls this week. By Friday, one of the reasons behind the protest was...

Japan said Friday that its chronic deflation persisted in January, with consumer prices falling 0.2 percent from a year earlier, though the employment situation showed a modest...

Top European Union officials have agreed to slap a strict limit on bankers' bonuses, which have been blamed for encouraging the risk-taking behavior that triggered the financial...

Part-nationalized Royal Bank of Scotland said Thursday it ended 2012 with massive losses after it set aside more cash to compensate customers who were mis-sold financial products and to pay fines...

Spain offers a broad range of investment and trade opportunities to Malta’s business community according to speakers at a seminar at the MCCEI last week.   Entitled “Business and...

In principle, every national of the European Union has the right to live and work in another member state, without being discriminated against on the basis of nationality. This fundamental principle...