The United States on Friday cleared the way for a merger between US carriers United and Continental that will create the world's biggest airline, officials and the airlines said.

"The department has

Oil prices dipped below $73 in Asian trade on Friday as concerns over weak US economic data pervaded crude markets, analysts said.

India said on Friday it was hopeful the makers of the BlackBerry smartphone would come up with a solution to security worries and avert a threatened shut-down of the firm's services next week.

Indian-owned steelmaker Corus said on Friday it is in talks to sell its Teesside Cast Products (TCP) unit to Thailand’s SSI for some $500 million.

India's leading vehicle maker Tata Motors said on Friday another of its ultra-cheap Nano cars had caught fire and that the company was investigating the incident.

Winnipeg (Canada), Aug. 27: Michelle Wie scored the second hole-in-one of her pro career on Thursday as she seized a three-shot lead in the Canadian Women’s Open.

Wie lifted her arms in celebration a

London, Aug. 25: That cricket has a language all of its own is something that has long been acknowledged. But now a survey has concluded that ‘Doosra’ is the single most untranslatable term in cricket

Paris Hilton awoke on Tuesday to find a knife-wielding intruder trying to break into her Los Angeles area home, later posting a photo on her Twitter page of the man being taken away in handcuffs.

Oil was higher in Asian trade on Thursday, as a weaker dollar helped prices shrug off a massive increase in US crude reserves, analysts said.

Facebook has become the number one social networking site in India, toppling Google-owned Orkut in one of the few markets the site had held a leadership position, a survey showed on Thursday.