Euro zone finance ministers are likely to back a bailout for Portugal on Monday and tell Greece it must deliver on agreed fiscal and privatization targets if it wants new emergency financing next year.
Greece denied reports on Tuesday it was discussing a new 60 billion euro ($84 billion) bailout with international lenders and its borrowing costs rose amid fears it may have to restructure its debt without further EU help.
The world's biggest oil companies on Wednesday launched broadsides against Democratic plans to pare back some of their cherished tax breaks, saying the measure was "un-American" and would only push up already high gasoline prices.
A day before the top executives of the five biggest firms were to appear before the Senate Finance Committee, the companies and lawmakers traded barbs over the Democratic effort to kill the tax breaks that senators say could cut the deficit by about $21 billion over a decade.
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Apple Inc and magazine publisher Conde Nast reached a deal to offer the New Yorker on the iPad device in the latest sign that relationships are improving between the technology company and content owners.
Conde Nast said iPad editions of other magazines will also be available by subscription through Apple's In-App Purchase system on the popular App Store. Titles including Vanity Fair, Glamour, Golf Digest, Allure, Wired, Self and GQ will be available in coming weeks.
The United States sharply criticized China's human rights record, saying its clampdown on dissent was a "fool's errand" and accusing it of trying to stop history, but the two sides made headway in easing economic frictions in high-level talks this week.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview released amid the two-day talks that closed Tuesday, offered some of the harshest criticism yet of China as it mounts one of its biggest clampdowns on dissent in years.
The CIA may have focused its war on Al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal badlands but Osama bin Laden's killing exposes the limits of drone strikes and the need for Islamabad to broaden intelligence in cities.
Abbottabad, the garrison town tucked in hills where bin Laden may have lived in secret for years, is just the latest Pakistani city with a strong military presence that some of Al-Qaeda's most-wanted have called home.
Golf shoes in the Oval Office could have been a clue.
President Barack Obama usually goes to the residence quarters of the White House after putting in a few weekend hours on the links. But he made an unusual beeline for his West Wing office last Sunday that raised eyebrows only in retrospect.
Under pressure from fellow U.N. member states, Syria dropped plans to run for a seat on the top U.N. human rights body and allowed Kuwait to replace it as a candidate, U.N. diplomats said on Tuesday.
Several U.N. diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity that Kuwait had confirmed to Western officials that it would enter the race for a spot on the 47-nation Human Rights Council in the Asian category.
The impact of AT&T Inc's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile on competition, pricing and consumer choice will be examined at a congressional hearing on Wednesday where top executives are due to appear.
AT&T has touted fewer dropped calls and faster data speeds to entice consumer and policymaker support for its $39-billion bid to take over Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA.
