A gas explosion Monday caused the building to collapse, trapping dozens of laborers, mostly boys aged 14-23, inside. "We just recovered another body. The total death toll is 17 and we have rescued 13 people," ...

President Mohamed Nasheed, widely credited with ushering in full democracy with a 2008 election win, has for weeks been in a struggle with former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, whose 30-year rule was widely seen as ...

Chief Executive Bob Dudley said BP was ready to settle on "fair and reasonable terms" but added he was also ready to fight. Europe's second-largest oil group by market capitalization added it would end ...

Wolfson, whose audio chips are used in Samsung smartphones and Amazon's Kindle ebook reader, fourth-quarter operating loss was $7.2 million, compared with $1 million, a year ago. Revenue fell 20 percent to $36.9 ...

Hong Kong's maternity wards are booked until September, pressured by the growing number of mainland Chinese seeking to circumvent the one-child policy and gain residency rights in one of the country's wealthiest ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp will head to a retrial against SAP AG over copyright infringement allegations after a U.S. judge slashed a previous monetary award against SAP by over $1 billion. In a court filing ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Key U.S. senators raised fresh questions about Lockheed Martin Corp's $382 billion F-35 fighter program on Monday as the Pentagon's top weapons buyer underscored deep flaws in the way the ...

The revolving credit facility replaces a term loan and smaller revolving facility the studio received as part of a pre-packaged bankruptcy in which its lenders exchanged $4 billion in outstanding debt for equity valued ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress went beyond its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance under President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul, opponents told the Supreme Court on Monday in arguing the ...