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South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced a bill that would ban the recognition or use of US currency in South Carolina. The lawmaker says if the Federal Government continues to spend at the current rate, there’s a chance the U.S. econom...

European Union finance ministers on Tuesday formally approved Portugal's Vitor Constancio as the European Central Bank's next vice-president.

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday assured Greece that a major gas pipeline project will help it recover from its debt crisis by boosting state revenues, but has not publicly suggested any possible aid from Moscow.

BEIJING — A Chinese court has charged the founder of home appliance giant GOME -- once the country's richest man -- with bribery, insider trading and illegal business dealings, state media reported.

Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan indicated the government would call elections before making any major changes to the nation’s tax code, including raising the 5 percent consumption tax.

Singapore has opened its first casino, part of a campaign by the city-state to transform itself into a tourist hub and reduce its reliance on manufacturing.

HELSINKI — A Finnish environmental agency on Friday approved plans to build a natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea — the final permit needed for the underwater energy link between Russia and Germany.

The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your ...

The brother and sons of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff are the subject of criminal tax-fraud cases by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Motorola confirmed on Thursday that it planned to reorganize into two independent companies by the first quarter of 2011, with its mobile handset unit and its television set-top box division being combined and spun off as a separate publicly trade...