The British bank said on Friday that its profit fell last year as the economic climate deteriorated and that it might have to abandon its performance target for next year.
The Alibaba Group is working on a complex plan to buy back most of Yahoo's stake in the company, and using Alibaba.com could remove an additional complication.
Google is moving into hardware, which is a goal of Larry Page, the chief executive, by developing an ?entertainment device? to compete with Amazon and Apple.
At the first Wall Street Training Valuation Case Competition, 25 teams of elite business students and undergraduates competed to be top Wall Street deal makers.
India has already eclipsed China as Iran?s No. 1 petroleum customer, subverting efforts by the United States to persuade other countries to find non-Iranian sources for their energy needs.
The department?s inspector general found no improper political influence by officials but faulted the department?s oversight of contractors who prepared an environmental impact analysis.
The Times's Gretchen Morgenson discusses the mortgage settlement; Pimco's chief executive, Mohamed El-Erian, on the situation in Greece; James B. Stewart talks about Chrysler and Clint Eastwood.
Some investment professionals are claiming that Facebook is worth only $75 billion or even $50 billion. But the Deal Professor says that it does not mean that Facebook stock will not trade at a price giving the company that vaunted $100 billion valuation.
President Obama's support for manufacturing was heartening, but he needs to do more to bolster this important sector and help train people to work in it, an economist writes.
Excerpts of an interview with Adam Lashinsky, the author of "Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works," a book published last month.
After days of talks, Greek political leaders reached a deal Thursday to support a package of harsh austerity measures demanded by Greece?s financial backers in return for a bailout.
Explosions in the northern city of Aleppo targeted security units on Friday, state media reported, as Syrian forces were said to be laying siege to the central city of Homs.
The king of Saudi Arabia inserted himself directly into the Syria crisis on Friday, castigating Russia and China for vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution.
As tensions mounted between Western nations and Syria, Germany said on Thursday that it had ordered the expulsion of four staff members from the Syrian Embassy.
The call by the formerly outlawed Islamist group moved Egypt one step closer to a long-anticipated confrontation between the ruling generals and the Islamist-dominated Parliament.
King Abdullah II has long faced critics among liberals in the cities, but recent protests among tribes outside of the urban areas present a new challenge.
A 2007 video of a boy chomping on the finger of his brother has been viewed 417.6 million times, making it the most successful noncommercial video in YouTube history.
Brazil, faced with a police strike that apparently contributed to a spike in killings in the northeast, is bracing for similar strikes in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival.
Vladimir V. Nesterets, an engineer at a space facility, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday for giving classified information to the C.I.A, according to Russian officials.
India has already eclipsed China as Iran?s No. 1 petroleum customer, subverting efforts by the United States to persuade other countries to find non-Iranian sources for their energy needs.
A two-day-old general strike in Israel, revolving the role of non-union contract workers, has shut ports, government offices, some banks, museums and parts of hospitals.
The high court on Friday rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against contempt charges, escalating a tense standoff between the judiciary and the ruling party.
A prominent Burmese monk who was released from prison last month was arrested again Friday in Yangon, according to a group that tracks political prisoners.
A Saudi Arabian writer who flew to Malaysia amid calls for his execution after he posted messages considered blasphemous will likely be repatriated, authorities said.
Park Hee-tae, a six-term legislator, said he wanted to take ?all responsibility? for the scandal, which has thrown President Lee?s governing party into further disarray.
The recent arrest of a pilot for Lion Air on suspicion of possessing crystal methamphetamine raised fresh concerns about the airline industry's safety and security standards.
In the latest twist of an increasingly bizarre story, China announced Thursday that a top Communist Party official spent a full day in the United States consulate in the western city of Chengdu.
Chinese security forces shot and killed two Tibetans on Thursday who had been involved in antigovernment protests, the American broadcaster Radio Free Asia reported.
Parliament approved a new government on Thursday whose leader promised to keep the austerity measures the country imposed but also to raise public-sector salaries as soon as he can.
Nine Islamic militants who pleaded guilty to planning terrorist attacks on a wide variety of targets, including the London Stock Exchange, were sentenced to lengthy jail terms on Thursday.
Éric Woerth, a former aide to President Nicolas Sarkozy will be formally investigated on suspicion of influence peddling and concealing illegal political financing, a French court said.
The embattled Syrian city of Homs remained under siege for a sixth day Thursday with residents throughout the city cowering in their homes and medical supplies dwindling.
The Somali militants known as the Shabab have formally joined Al Qaeda, according to a video translation released Thursday of a message from Al Qaeda?s leader, Ayman al-Zawahri.
At the Egyptian Coffee Shop in Astoria, Queens, the self-proclaimed ?first hookah lounge in America,? news reports from home do not get in the way of a good smoke.
Samuel Aranda had to slip into Yemen carefully as he covered last year's unrest. His patience was rewarded today when one of his images was chosen Photo of the Year by World Press Photo.
At a refugee camp in Tripoli, more than 1,000 people displaced during the war in Libya are caught between warring factions: Misuratans, who blame them for aiding Colonel Qaddafi?s assault on their town, and militias from Benghazi and Zintan, who are trying to hold both Tripoli and the camp.
While video recorded by Syrian activists seems to have the ring of truth for many observers watching the crisis unfold in cities that are largely off-limits to foreign reporters, the conflict looks quite different to viewers of satellite channels owned by the governments of Syria's allies, Russia and Iran.
Observers looking for clues about the fate of one of China's most famous mob-busting security officials are watching how the Chinese authorities have, or have not, censored social media posts on the subject.
Morocco and Saudi Arabia responded with a heavy hand this week to messages posted by citizens on Facebook and Twitter that the kings deemed insulting to their values.
The filmmaker Jon Shenk presents a portrait of Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically-elected president of the Maldives and an environmental activist, who was deposed on Feb. 7.
After investigators said an engineer in last week?s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.
Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.
The blueprint would change the city?s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.
A backlash against short sellers has begun, with regulators in the U.S. and Britain tightening rules and authorities in New York intensifying investigations.
Senator John McCain?s once easygoing if irreverent campaign presence ? endearing to crowds, though often resulting in gaffes ? has been put out to pasture.
Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.
A privacy group filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday seeking to halt what it describes as illegal surveillance of Americans? telephone and Internet traffic.
As the veterans? health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation?s veterans.
Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to move a special election for Trent Lott?s former Senate seat to near the top of the November ballot, ending a dispute that had threatened to delay the start of absentee voting.
Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.
A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths.
Every year, an estimated 500,000 people trek to a lake to see a veritable carpet of carp, and the state has temporarily called off a plan to force people to stop feeding bread to the fish.
Because of conference realignment, some schedules have been held up. Hotels and other facilities are waiting to book football weekends, leaving fall brides in a holding pattern.
Missy Franklin, who holds the world record in the 200-meter backstroke, has passed up about $150,000 in prize money and more in endorsements to swim for her Colorado high school.
Eddie Jordan, 57, fired as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers in 2010, is coaching freshmen at his alma mater, Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington.
Minor League Baseball severed ties with the Jim Evans Academy for Professional Umpiring after learning that employees had dressed up in costumes inspired by the Ku Klux Klan.
Thomas Dold, the winner of Wednesday night?s run up the Empire State Building, is basically the sole competitor in the spotlight of the fringe sport, having won the event seven years in a row.
Jan Ullrich of Germany, who won the 1997 Tour de France but has since retired from cycling, was suspended for two years on Thursday in a largely symbolic move.
Scott Machado, Iona?s senior point guard, is passing his way to prominence, averaging 10 assists a game and drawing N.B.A. scouts despite recently learning he is nearsighted.
Dwight Howard wants to play in a larger market and has demanded a trade from Orlando. The Magic?s owner, Rich DeVos, and the team have not given up hope.
Spanning the globe, play in the Davis Cup World Group begins Friday. An understrength United States team has to defeat a Swiss squad led by Roger Federer.
Dennis Boyd, better known as Oil Can, said he probably pitched under the influence of cocaine ?at every ballpark? in his 10-year career, most of it with the Red Sox in the 1980s.
Rafael Cabrera-Bello birdied 9 of his first 11 holes and shot a nine-under-par 63 for a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Dubai Desert Classic.
Ivory Coast is no ordinary team, but Zambia, a team of comparative unknowns, worked its way to the final, sometimes on the sheer spirit of togetherness.
General Manager Jerry Reese discussed the state of the Giants heading into the off-season, including the need to accommodate some new Super Bowl champions like Victor Cruz.
One of the underlying themes of the Super Bowl was continuity; the Patriots and the Giants are exemplary as stable franchises. So is Pittsburgh, but perhaps that is about to change.
Jeremy Lin and Landry Fields debuted a new handshake this week that appears to be a nod to the fact that they both attended hallowed educational institutions.
Coach Red Berenson, whose Michigan team defeated Michigan State, 5-0, in an outdoor game at the Big House in 2010, gave the 2013 Winter Classic venue his full endorsement.
The chairman of the English Football Association, David Bernstein, met the news media Thursday, one day after the resignation of Fabio Capello as the coach of the national soccer team.
Describing himself as a traditionalist, Tiger Woods said he was opposed to putters that can be anchored against the body, which have become more popular on the PGA Tour in recent years.
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