Forget the mattress, a quarter of Americans who keep money in their homes are hiding it in their freezers, according to a new survey.

The Marist poll showed that 27 per cent of Americans preferred to

An unusual stock split designed to preserve Google Inc founders' control of the Web search leader raised questions and some grumbling on Wall Street, even as investors focused on the company's short-t

Russia and China joined the rest of the United Nations Security Council on Saturday to authorise the deployment of up to 30 unarmed observers to Syria to monitor the country’s fragile ceasefire, as ca

India's deficits and short-term debt levels are "disturbing," but it is not facing a repeat of a 1991 balance of payments crisis, Reserve Bank of India chief Duvvuri Subbarao said on Saturday.

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Gunmen launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, with assaults in possibly seven different places, Afghanistan's NATO-led force said.

A spokesperson for NATO's Internationa

Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd ended Nokia Oyj's 14-year leadership of the global cellphone market in the first quarter of the year, outselling the struggling Finnish handset maker for the first t

India is within days of test-firing a long-range rocket capable of reaching deep into Asia and Europe, a move that would bring the emerging power into a small club of nations with intercontinental def

North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces

Tensions among some of the world's leading economies have boiled up over a plan to raise new resources for the International Monetary Fund to contain the eurozone debt crisis, and a quest by emerging

Former Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie sought to reinvent the BlackBerry smartphone maker with a radical shift in strategy before he stepped down, two sources with knowledge of his