LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of Britons were swapping the office for the comforts of working from home this week as government and businesses tested ways of avoiding transport gridlock during this summer's Olympics in ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ever since Jordan Hoffart decided to turn his back on the seemingly incessant rain of his native Vancouver, he has been living his dream as a professional skateboarder in the perpetual sunshine ...

(Reuters) - Hackers sought $50,000 from U.S. anti-virus firm Symantec Corp in return for the stolen blueprints to its flagship products under what the company says was a sting operation run by an undisclosed law ...

Live TV showed divers in debris-filled water as emergency services waited at the top of the 30 meter wide entrance to the tunnel at Mizushima oil refinery in Okayama prefecture after the men, aged 38 to 61, went ...

A gas explosion Monday caused the building to collapse, trapping dozens of laborers, mostly boys aged 14-23, inside. "We just recovered another body. The total death toll is 17 and we have rescued 13 people," ...

MALE (Reuters) - President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned on Tuesday after weeks of protests erupted into a police mutiny, leaving the man widely credited with bringing democracy to the paradise islands ...

LONDON (Reuters) - BP said it was preparing "vigorously" for lawsuits related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which are due to start later this month, as it unveiled a rise in fourth-quarter earnings boosted ...

Wolfson, whose audio chips are used in Samsung smartphones and Amazon's Kindle ebook reader, fourth-quarter operating loss was $7.2 million, compared with $1 million, a year ago. Revenue fell 20 percent to $36.9 ...

Hong Kong's maternity wards are booked until September, pressured by the growing number of mainland Chinese seeking to circumvent the one-child policy and gain residency rights in one of the country's wealthiest ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp will head to a retrial against SAP AG over copyright infringement allegations after a U.S. judge slashed a previous monetary award against SAP by over $1 billion. In a court filing ...