Officials from the U.S. government's health research agency are to be questioned by a congressional committee about why taxpayers are funding a World Health Organization cancer agency facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens, Reuters (...)
Tottenham midfielder Gareth Bale has agreed personal terms for a move to Real Madrid, the BBC reported on Friday.
The 24-year-old Wales forward is the subject of an 86
million-pound (133 million dollars) bid from Madrid, dpa reported.
But the BBC (...)
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was fined 12,000 pounds (19,000 dollars) by the Football Association on
Friday for alleging bias in a linesman, dpa reported.
An Independent Regulatory Commission found that Ferguson's
comments after (...)
Royal Bank of Scotland is to axe 3,500 investment bank jobs and sell or shut equities and advisory business under a 3-year plan to further reduce risk and focus more on domestic retail and corporate banking, Reuters reported.
RBS, 83 percent owned (...)
Britain will signal on Wednesday that it intends to legalise copying of CDs or DVDs onto digital music players or computers for personal use, Reuters quoted a government source as saying on Tuesday.
The move was one of the recommendations made in a (...)
