Exxon Mobil Corp broke its own record for the highest-ever quarterly profit for a U.S. company on Thursday, joining other major oil companies in posting stronger earnings on the back of sky-high oil prices. The average price of a barrel of oil was slightly less than $125 in the quarter, nearly double last year, which [...]
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Planned changes to the way video games are rated have sparked a row about who should be in charge of giving games their official age classification. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has announced a consultation on whether the ratings for games should replicate the system for movies. But games makers oppose plans, backed by MPs, for [...]
Alicia Keys and Jack White have recorded the theme tune for the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. R&B singer Keys has teamed up with the star of rock bands White Stripes and The Raconteurs for Another Way to Die, the first duet in Bond theme history. The announcement follows speculation that the job [...]
Tata Motors, India’s biggest vehicle maker, has seen net profits fall 30% due to high material costs and losses from changes in foreign exchange rates. The firm made 3.3bn rupees ($77m; £38m) in the three months to June, compared with 4.7bn rupees a year earlier. Price rises and cost cutting will be used to protect [...]
Germany’s top court has ruled against smoking bans in small bars and clubs. The Federal Constitutional Court upheld complaints against the bans in the city-state of Berlin and Baden-Wuerttemberg, in south-west Germany. The two states are among 12 that introduced such bans at the start of the year. The court says they must now review [...]
A Briton accused of hacking into top-secret military computers has vowed to fight extradition to stand trial in the US after losing a court appeal. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon could face life in jail if convicted of accessing 97 US military and Nasa computers. He has admitted breaking into the computers from his London home but [...]
Lewis Hamilton can chalk up his third win in a row when he returns to Budapest for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix, a race he won in controversial circumstances last year. McLaren’s Formula One championship leader, now four points clear of Ferrari’s Felipe Massa after stunning wins in Germany and Britain, has every chance of extending [...]
Alicia Keys and the White Stripes’ Jack White have recorded the theme song to "Quantum of Solace," the 22nd James Bond film, which will be released worldwide in November, Columbia Pictures said Tuesday. The song, "Another Way To Die," is the first duet in Bond soundtrack history, the studio said in a statement. White wrote [...]
Sweetened fruit drinks are often marketed as a healthier alternative to non-diet soft drinks but are just as likely to cause weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes, researchers said on Monday. "The public should be made aware that these drinks are not a healthy alternative to soft drinks with regard to risk of [...]
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The foreign exchange market is also known as FX or it is also found to be referred to as the FOREX. All three of these have the same meaning, which is the trade of trading between different companies, banks, businesses, and governments that are located in different countries. The financial market is one that is [...]