A factory worker's claim that she was chosen to stand near the French president during a photo shoot because she is short is making waves on the Internet, and rankling Sarkozy's office.
As lawmakers prepare to implement sweeping credit card reforms, Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are moving to overhaul overdraft fees and practices that have been criticized industrywide as excessive and harmful to consumers.
By selling an array of virtual products from avatar clothes to e-furniture, Asia's social networking sites appear to have solved the conundrum of how to leverage big profits from their extensive user bases.
Finding ways to prevent pilot fatigue has stymied federal regulators and the airline industry for decades. Agencies have been recommending rule updating.
Afghans are going to vote on August 20, 2009 for the second time, electing their own president after the Taliban regime was toppled by US-led invasion in 2001.
A military inquiry blamed a navy captain's "errors of judgment" for Australia's worst maritime tragedies in which 645 crew were lost when a cruiser was sunk by a German raider during WWII.
A court Tuesday jailed a 90-year-old former German army commander for life for ordering a massacre of Italian civilians in 1944, in one of Germany's last major Nazi war crimes trials.
Four years after his body was exhumed as part of an investigation, his original glass-topped casket has been found in a rusty shed at a suburban cemetery.
JPMorgan's swift move from advising Chinalco's billion dollar offer for Rio to helping Rio underwrite a bumper rights issue has prompted rival bankers to query JPMorgan's loyalties.
A Frenchman who underwent the world's first face and double-hand transplant in April after being horribly disfigured in an accident has died, hospital officials said Monday.
A red notebook of 33 pencil drawings by Pablo Picasso has been stolen from a specially locked glass case in the Paris museum that bears the painter's name, authorities said Tuesday.
Someday soon, the grass may be greener for people laid to rest in a section of one Lawrence, Kansas, cemetery.
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