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He's one of the titans of 20th Century architecture, but Le Corbusier is suddenly feeling the weight of history working against him.
The European Union signaled Tuesday that it was prepared to scrap tariffs on billions dollars (euros) worth of high-tech exports from the United States, Japan and Taiwan, which were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization last month.
As Washington demands more transparency from Pakistan on how it's spending its flood aid money, a U.N. agency has launched an unusual appeal for relief funds to be sent directly to a Pakistani or Swiss bank account — with none of the usual monitoring safeguards.
The U.S. appealed on Thursday its own victory in a landmark trade ruling against European subsidies for planemaker Airbus, asking the World Trade Organization to toughen its condemnation of the EU's financial meddling in a market worth more than $3 trillion over the next two decades.
The World Trade Organization ruled Monday that Australia's 89-year ban on imports of New Zealand apples is illegal, and ordered Canberra to comply with international commerce law.
Swiss bank UBS AG offered evidence of its recovery Tuesday with stronger-than-expected second-quarter profits of 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.9 billion), and said it should resolve all tax matters with the U.S. government by October.
Switzerland's popular Glacier Express tourist train derailed Friday in the Alps, killing one person and injuring 42 others on its spectacular journey between Zermatt and St. Moritz.
Pharmaceuticals maker Roche Holding AG on Thursday posted a 37 percent rise in six-month net profit on strong drug sales and lower costs related to its takeover of U.S.-based Genentech.
The European Union appealed on Wednesday a landmark trade ruling that found it gave planemaker Airbus a wide range of illegal subsidies in its battle with U.S. competitor Boeing Co., unfairly tilting a market worth more than $3 trillion over the next two decades.
Roman Polanski was declared a free man on Monday after Switzerland rejected a U.S. request to extradite him to be sentenced for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
The 32-year legal saga that began with a child rape charge against Roman Polanski headed for a decisive moment Monday as the Swiss government prepared to make an announcement about whether to extradite the fugitive director to the United States.
The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
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Cristiano Ronaldo finally scored.
The chalet doors and windows are wide open. Deck chairs are set up on the patio and the garden is strewn with daffodils and wild flowers.
Can anything stop the euro's decline?
Singapore and Hong Kong are the world's most competitive economies, an annual survey said Friday, demoting the United States from the top spot for the first time since 1993.
Roman Polanski's loss of a crucial California court decision sets up his return to the United States more than three decades after he fled a statutory rape charge, Swiss legal experts said Friday.
At the pace of a fast bicycle, a solar-powered plane took to the skies for its maiden flight Wednesday, passing an important test on the way to a historic voyage around the world — a journey that would not use a drop of fuel.
Switzerland's decision on extraditing Roman Polanski will be made after a California court rules whether he can be sentenced in absentia in a 33-year-old sex case, a Swiss official said Wednesday.
The U.N.'s aid chief in Somalia says a recent report alleging widespread corruption in Somali food deliveries lacks evidence and is endangering lifesaving assistance to the impoverished African country.
A report alleging widespread corruption in Somali food deliveries lacks evidence and is endangering lifesaving assistance to the impoverished African country, the U.N.'s aid chief in Somalia says.
The World Trade Organization ruled that European governments unfairly financed planemaker Airbus' battle against U.S. rival Boeing, officials said, even as the France-based Airbus claimed the decision as a victory.
Geneva's new "Parsifal" production escaped the boos heard after several recent Richard Wagner opera premieres at the Grand Theatre, with a richly colored staging accompanying music that was at times so sensuous the allegory of Christian salvation seemed destined to end in embrace.
A global vaccine initiative launched with the help of Bill Gates is seeking $4.3 billion in new funding to ramp up child immunization campaigns against deadly diseases such as hepatitis B, diarrhea and pneumonia in the developing world.
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