BEIRUT (AP) — Fighting in Syria killed nearly 1,900 people, including at least 430 civilians, during the week of U.N.-hosted peace talks in Switzerland, activists said Friday. The death toll indicates that violence barely paused as the warring parties met but struck uncompromising stances, failing to reach any agreements that could help resolve the conflict.

Euro zone consumer price inflation dropped in January, bucking market expectations for a rise and providing a possible trigger for further easing by the European Central Bank to sustain a fragile recovery and ward against deflation. Consumer price inflation in the 18-country bloc fell to 0.7 percent year-on-year in the first month of 2014, down […]

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More than 100 million people will be glued to their TV screens on Sunday, when the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks in America’s premier sporting contest, the Super Bowl. But two fierce rivals, Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Twitter Inc (TWTR.O), will also be clashing head-to-head on a “second screen” that TV viewers will […]

The most exciting part of elevating Satya Nadella to chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) may be that it would end the search to replace Steve Ballmer, investors in the world’s biggest software maker said. The 46-year-old native of Hyderabad, India, is a cloud computing whiz with the potential to reverse Microsoft’s image as […]

The number of young men in the UK, applying to go into higher education is reaching crisis point, the head of the university applications service UCAS, has warned.

In a fresh coalition split, Liberal Democrat ministers broke ranks with their Conservative colleagues and voted to defeat the amendment on the grounds that it breaches the European Convention on Human Rights.

Hertfordshire Police and paramedics were called to the incident on the M1 northbound near Junction 5, close to the village of Bricket Wood, at about 10.45am.

Nearly six out of ten of all working mothers would cut down their hours to spend more time with their families if they could afford to, a Department of Education survey said.

Volevo anche sottolineare un altro punto che mi sta a cuore: quale altro programma ha parlato in Italia di signoraggio, di Illuminati e di Ustica, tanto per fare qualche esempio? Nessuno ne aveva mai avuto il coraggio. Noi l'abbiamo fatto, non siamo …