China's Zhejiang Heely Holding Group has reached an agreement with Ford Motors to take over Ford's Volvo Unit. The deal to buy the struggling Swedish company has been two years in the making.

• 29 March 2010

The issue of whistleblowers' protection came to focus when NHAI engineer Satyendra Dubey was killed after he wrote a letter to the office of then PM A B Vajpayee about corruption in highway construction.

• 29 March 2010

Consumer prices in Japan are continuing to fall, latest figures show, threatening the country's recovery from recession.

• 26 March 2010

When researchers discovered a fossil finger in a Siberian cave, they found an ancestor - and perhaps a new human species. Johannes Krause told Deutsche Welle about his team's efforts to analyze the ancient DNA.

• 26 March 2010

TALLINN - European Commission President Jose Barroso has praised Estonia's economic efforts and said he supports the country's bid to join the eurozone next year. “I share the pri...

• 26 March 2010

Russia’s customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan may provide a loophole that will allow Georgian goods to enter Russia for the first time since an embargo was imposed in 2006, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said.

• 25 March 2010

RIGA - In trying to patch up the holes and keep afloat after the People’s Party abandoned ship last week, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (New Era) asked Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins (P...

• 25 March 2010

two most powerful emerging market economies should help each other increase their weight in global affairs. China and Russia say their trade and political relations are better than ever, though senior Russian officials are privately concerned about an

• 24 March 2010