The price of sugar jumped more than 5 per cent on Tuesday to hit a 3

Perched on the edge of a fiord in western Norway, Statoil

Germany and China are planning a big expansion of joint research and investment in green technologies, including production of electric cars in China and development of carbon-capture systems.

A series of business and inter-governmental agreements were signed between the world

Too close for comfort: fires burn in the hills above the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear site in New Mexico

Firefighters on Tuesday battled a wildfire that threatened a government nuclear facility in New Mexico, raising fears about the safety of radioactive materials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

On Monday, a spot fire at the laboratory was quickly contained and officials

The soaring price of petrol and greater road congestion have encouraged more North American motorists to opt for coach transport, boosting revenue and profit at Stagecoach.

The London-listed bus and rail operator, which provides budget coach transport in the US and Canada through its Megabus operations, on Wednesday said revenues from its bus operations in the region rose by 8 per cent in the y

The new head of the UN

Heavy rains and flooding across swaths of US farmland mean farmers have planted significantly less corn than initially intended, according to Cargill, the world

South Korean steel-maker Posco should be celebrating, having at last secured regulatory approval for a long-delayed $12bn steel project in the Indian state of Orissa.

Eon, the German power group, has called Germany

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