• Amazon to buy online shoe retailer Zappos for over $800 mln

    Amazon to buy online shoe retailer Zappos for over $800 mln

    22/07/2009 05:00

    Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to buy online shoe store Zappos.com Inc. in a deal worth nearly 850 million U.S. dollars. Seattle-based Amazon said it will acquire all of the...

  • Canada reports first case of Tamiflu-resistant A/H1N1 flu

    Canada reports first case of Tamiflu-resistant A/H1N1 flu

    22/07/2009 05:00

    Canada on Wednesday reported its first case of Tamiflu-resistant A/H1N1 flu virus, in a man who had been given the drug to prevent infection. A man leaves a school, attended by children from the five new confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1), after...

  • Obama reiterates to withdraw all troops from Iraq as scheduled

    Obama reiterates to withdraw all troops from Iraq as scheduled

    22/07/2009 05:00

    President Barack Obama on Wednesday reiterated that the U.S. troops will completely withdraw from Iraq by the end of 2011 as scheduled, and that the United States supports Iraq’s political reconciliation process. U.S. President Barack Obama (R) and...

  • Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

    Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

    22/07/2009 05:00

    Office staff work at Rio Tinto Group’s Shanghai office in Shanghai, China China’s detention of Rio Tinto Group executives amid allegations of espionage and bribery should serve as a reminder to foreign...

  • Siemens to run down order book at energy division

    Siemens to run down order book at energy division

    22/07/2009 05:00

    Siemens employees leave the Siemens headquarters in Munich, Germany Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineer, will be forced to run down the order book at its energy division in the first half of its next...

  • APEC says significant risks remain to global outlook

    APEC says significant risks remain to global outlook

    22/07/2009 05:00

    Pascal Lamy, World Trade Organization director general, speaks at the launch of the WTO World Trade Report at the APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade meeting in Singapore The global economic outlook remains...

  • U.S. police search Jackson’s doctor’s office in manslaughter probe

    U.S. police search Jackson’s doctor’s office in manslaughter probe

    22/07/2009 05:00

    U.S. federal agents and police on Wednesday raided the Houston office of pop star Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray, and the doctor’s lawyer said the research was related to a manslaughter investigation. Pop star Michael Jackson rehearses for...

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