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During a long day – Friday’s 168th ministerial meeting was the longest for many years – very strong rumours emerged that Opec meant to increase its 30m bpd production ceiling to 31.5m bpd to effectively formalise the production that now exceeds it. These rumours...

The company’s representative said Azerbaijan will not attract assistance in extinguishing the fire from other countries, nor does the country consider the accident as a subversive action.

Police say they’re adding patrols to clinics to guard against those who might be inspired to mimic a shootout that killed three people and injured nine.

Apart from much needed food, Orbital’s Cygnus cargo resupply vehicle also contains clothing and toiletries for six astronauts including spacewalking equipment and air supply tanks, along with scientific experiments.

The “biggest online shopping day” is now behind us. Yet “Cyber Monday” has become ingrained in the minds of enough shoppers and it endures as the top online spending day of the year.

Amazon introduced the $50 Fire tablet back in September, initially shipping only to the U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan, France, Italy, and Spain.

The deal values Allergan shares at $363.63 each, about 16% more than their closing price of $312.46 on Friday. Such mergers enable USA companies like Pfizer, bound by America’s relatively high taxes, to save billions of dollars by shifting to low-tax nations such as...

Also encouraging is that job gains for September and October were revised up by a total 35,000. Official unemployment remained at 5 percent, while average wages for hourly private sector employees grew by a miserly 0.2 percent to $25.25 an hour. While testifying before the Joint...

Puerto Rico has narrowly avoided a multimillion-dollar default by announcing a last-minute bond payment.

Yahoo’s stock popped 7% on Tuesday, after a Wall Street Journal report that the company’s board was considering selling its core internet business.

As the meeting convened, conference president Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu described the oil industry as “in the midst of another challenging cycle”.

If successfully launched, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s commercial cargo flights to the station will restart, ending its dependence on Russian and Japanese rockets.

The attack on the Planned Parenthood center in Colorado has inspired the left-wing segment of society to blame Republicans and pro-life believers for the action of a demented individual.

Markets plunged in reaction with both Frankfurt’s DAX 30 and the CAC 40 in Paris ending the day down 3.58 percent, while London’s FTSE 100 index lost 2.27 percent.

Pfizer and Allergan on Monday morning announced they would merge in a massive, $160 billion deal that will create the world’s largest drugmaker, producing treatments as varied as Lipitor and Botox.