The dollar strengthened against the euro in Asia on Wednesday as skittish short-term investors took profit ahead of a European Central Bank (ECB) meeting, analysts said.

Oil prices eased off two-and-a-half-year highs to below $113 a barrel on Monday after President Barack Obama announced that al-Qaida leader Osama bid Laden had been killed.

Benchmark crude for June d

Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew was returned to Parliament on Wednesday without any contest, retaining his seat in the port district he has represented for more than half a century.

Spot gold surged to a lifetime high on Friday in thin holiday trade, hitting a record for a sixth consecutive session on a weak dollar and factors ranging from geopolitical uncertainty to inflation co

Six times, Sergei Belyakov says, he has been through the doorway to hell and back.

The Ukrainian-American was a volunteer ‘jumper’ who helped clean up after the nuclear disaster in the town of Cherno

Crude prices rose in Asian trade on Monday as Western forces staged air strikes to halt Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's attacks on civilians, analysts said.

Japan's massive earthquake and tsunami could cost its economy up to $235 billion, or 4.0 per cent of output, and reconstruction may take five years, the World Bank said on Monday.

Parents may soon be able to find out if their unborn child is prone to any inherited diseases, researchers said on Thursday, after developing a non-invasive technique to draw the entire gene map of th

Singapore Airlines said on Monday its inspections had found no problems with the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines used on the carrier's Airbus A380 superjumbo planes.

Engine trouble forced another Qantas jumbo jet to make an emergency landing in Singapore, just a day after the airline's A380 superjumbo was forced to turn back after a mid-air explosion in one of its