Geneva Business News

African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opens in Geneva today. Meanwhile,...

The talks come days after failure of renewed negotiations between India's Bharti Airtel [ Get Quote ] and South Africa's [ Images ] MTN...The deal is expected to be a multi-billion dollar transaction. Speaking on the sidelines of an International...

top mobile operator Bharti Airtel's shares were down 9.1 per cent at Rs 363.80, having fallen as much as 10 per cent. Reliance Communications fell 12.1 per cent to Rs 263.95 in a Mumbai market down just 0.6 per cent....

Swiss bank UBS might have to disclose only a "very small" number of US account holders compared to those envisaged in a settlement for a tax evasion case , the US ambassador to Switzerland has said. Ambassador Donald Beyer said...

Saturday to improve fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent a year until 2020, and called on governments worldwide to provide incentives to speed biofuel development. Representatives from the International Air Transport Association, which represents the world's largest airlines, also agreed to...

Engineers at the Cern particle physics laboratory plan to begin injecting protons into the world’s most powerful atom-smasher at around 4pm GMT tomorrow afternoon, after the “big bang machine” was formally handed over to its operations team. A first beam...

GENEVA: Global airlines are heading into their worst business crisis for 50 years with carriers facing possible collapse, revenues tumbling and hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk, the industry body Iata said yesterday. In a forecast for 2009, it...