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Weight Watchers, the international diet programme, has endorsed a new line of diet wines from Australian producer McWilliams Wines.

Nintendo is gearing to morph itself as the premier fun-provider of households the world over as the Japanese firm unveiled on Thursday the new Wii U, touted as “the entertainment hub in the centre of the house.”

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) announced on Thursday that it awarded to NRW Holdings the contract to build the miner's Cape Lambert iron ore plant. The scope of construction work includes conveyor link earthworks, relocation of water pipelines and rail formation earthworks.

China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp, currently two of the leading global telecommunication firms, have informed the U.S. Congress on Thursday that they were not willing tools at the disposal of Beijing to spy on other nations.

Overnight there was only one focus for the US markets, the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting to decide on a new monetary policy. The market is hoping for additional stimulus and that is exactly what it got. The FOMC announced an open ended Quantitative Easing (QE) program focused on purchases up to US$40Billion worth of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBSs) a month. The program will commence tomorrow and can be increased with additional asset purchases if required to try an...

Apple did just the right thing in stretching the screen size of the new iPhone 5 to 4.0 inches and deploying much-faster cellular connectivity with the gadget, which rolls out beginning Sept 21, a new report said.

Microsoft has unmasked a new malware that reportedly operates from a Chinese domain and spreads through freshly-unboxed PCs that were exclusively assembled by a computer manufacturer, also in China.

Three unions at BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP) rejected on Thursday the latest workplace agreement offered by the giant miner. The unions want changes to the offer before they submit the deal for a vote to their 3,000 members assigned at BHP's coking coal mines in northeastern Australia.

Iranian oil tankers have been unloading millions of barrels of oil near a small port island just off the East Malaysian coast.

U.S. fast food giant McDonald's Corp will begin posting calorie information for its entire menu at U.S. stores starting from next week.

By Rudi Filapek-VandyckThe Dow Jones industrial average jumped 207 points, or 1.6%, to 13,539.86, while the Nasdaq rose 1.

The Australian sharemarket lost a little ground for the second time this week, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) easing by 0.5 pct or 23.3 pts to 4359.8. Despite the pullback, investors seemed uninterested with equities as there was only $3.3 billion worth of shares that exchanged hands. This is around 30 pct less than last Thursday's trade volume. Yesterday, the XAO improved by 0.8 pct.

Add Nintendo’s Wii U to your holiday gadget shopping list this December as the new game console is likely to hit the global market at around the same time that new tech toys were slated to fiercely compete for consumers’ attention.

"I'm not going to be the guy that lies on media, I'm not going to be the guy that stands up here and lies to Australia," thus said Australia's Olympic heat swimmer Tommaso D'Orsogna in an apparent tell-all interview over Channel 10 'The Project' on Wednesday night.

Sure they are disabled. But the fact cannot be discounted that Australia's Paralympic team brought home more golds and more medals from the London 2012 games than their abled but currently controversy embroiled counterparts.

Notwithstanding the rollout of a new iPhone, Android handsets will be scooped up in large amounts that by the close of 2013 more than a billion units will be owned by global consumers, according to a new smartphone market report.

Pitting Apple’s new iPhone 5 against Sony’s Xperia Acro S is pretty much watching the technologies from the two tech giants clashing in full force, with ‘minor’ players invited into the fray because their brand architectures are inside the fresh smartphone releases.

Today the market has reversed yesterday's strong run, positive news out of Europe was not enough to keep the momentum from continuing ahead of the outcome from the US Federal Reserve tonight. Overnight the German Constitutional Court formally approved The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), paving the way for the Eurozone's permanent rescue fund to come into operation. While a positive decision had been expected the euro markets and currencies rose. The UK market was a little weaker even w...

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The Hyundai Motor's labor union has voted to approve a revised wage and working-conditions deal, ending strike that had hurt sales at South Korea's biggest car maker. The strike at Hyundai Motor is said to be the costliest one in the company's history.

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Ford Motor Co.'s board of directors is due to meet on Thursday. The Ford Motor Co.'s board will probably discuss the most pressing issue facing the American car maker - the retirement of Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally.

Is today Big Wednesday? Well, if you had to pick a day when the market could blow out - in either direction - you could do worse than today.

This is the last day of the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Prague, and I am writing from inside Prague Castle, where we have been the guests of the Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus.

By Rudi Filapek-VandyckThe Dow Jones industrial average DJIA closed up 9.99 points, or 0.07%, to 13,333.

Australia's Olympic swim team is now in submerged in hot water after a panel was requested to be established to review the team's lackluster performance in the recently concluded 2012 London Olympics in August.

The Australian sharemarket improved for the second time this week today and ended close to the daily highs. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) rose 0.8 pct or 34.8 pts to 4383.1, with almost all sectors closing in the black.

Chinese property prices are now bouncing back, amidst central bank's decision to slash its key interest rates to boost the slowing economy.