If there's one thing you notice in the Financial Times' sprawling office building on London's Southwark Bridge it's that there are newspapers...everywhere. Piles upon piles of trademark salmon pink paper, the fruit of endless days of hard work that even the most seasoned journalists can't bring themselves to recycle.
I didn't really know what to expect when I got to Provo, Utah. I knew that many people here were followers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, better known as the Mormons. And I was here to visit Brigham Young University -- also known as the Mormon university.
A country's economy devastated, unemployment endemic and suicides rising -- this is the reality in Greece, and there is seemingly no end in sight.
"If you want to experience the essence of a foreign destination on a short visit," says Elyse Pasquale, "then nothing beats sampling the local food."
Leaders of the European Union in Brussels have agreed Thursday to a deal for a eurozone-wide banking supervisor in 2013 that is designed to help prevent future catastrophic bank failures that could threaten the monetary union.
European Union leaders are gathering at yet another summit in Brussels to discuss greater banking and fiscal cooperation in an effort to preserve the euro currency in the face of the debt crisis.
You can see them each night on street corners or public squares of Beijing, hundreds of Chinese couples ballroom dancing to music blaring from makeshift speakers.
EU leaders have expressed alarm that the eurozone's push towards a banking union has stalled, setting up a confrontation with a more reluctant Germany at a European summit in Brussels.
Mexico, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, UK, Venezuela: the origins of tankers docking at the Texas port of Corpus Christi once read like a roll call of top oil-exporting nations.
The chief executive of Rosneft will on Thursday finalise a deal with BP that will turn the Russian national champion into the world's largest publicly traded crude oil producer.
In my American Quest I am visiting states firmly for President Barack Obama (Illinois), those strongly for Mitt Romney (Utah) and some, like my next train stop, which can't make up their minds. Colorado, is one of these "undecided" states, which have become crucially important.
Foxconn Technology Group -- the world's largest electronics manufacturer and supplier to companies like Apple, Samsung and Microsoft -- admitted that interns as young as 14 worked at one of its Chinese plants.
Armed with glossy sales catalogs and a shy swagger, Samuel Wong hopes to transform his family-run firm from a manufacturer of hum-drum fishing vessels and houseboats into a maker of sophisticated super yachts.
As corporate fraud falls around the world, the percentage of fraud committed by corporate insiders is climbing, a new survey reports.
It's been a big year for Chile's airline industry. In June, the country's flag carrier LAN completed its takeover of Brazil's biggest airline TAM.
Royal Bank of Scotland has suspended its head of rates trading in Europe and Asia Pacific, the most senior employee to be put on leave so far as the bank investigates its alleged role in the interbank lending rate scandals.
If you are one of the few who haven't seen South Korean rapper Psy's performance of "Gangnam Style" on YouTube (which, until I wrote these words, included me), you're missing not only a piece of power pop, but -- some hope -- a harbinger of things to come for Asian music artists.
The day did not start well. Lightning, thunder and torrential rain poured down over Bloomfield, Iowa, where I had come to watch a civil war reenactment.
Sebastián Piñera is a man on a mission. The Chilean President wants to transform his homeland into a developed nation by 2020.
The International Monetary Fund on Saturday sounded a note of cautious optimism on the global economy, but warned that recovery will be derailed if officials relent on policy commitments.
Woooooh... Wooooh. The very sound of the Amtrak train horn is among the most evocative bits of Americana. It conjures up images of giant locomotives, ploughing their way across the country. With romantic names like "The Texas Eagle," "The Silver Meteor," "The City of New Orleans," and my home for the next week, "The California Zephyr." The train is America.
China's trade surplus widened to $27.67 billion in September from $26.66B the previous month, the Chinese government reported Saturday.
The headline in the Chicago Tribune left no one in any doubt. "Obama Solid in Illinois."
It has often been said that the European Union is the most ambitious conflict management project ever undertaken. Over the past sixty years, it has certainly transformed the ways in which the peoples and countries of Europe work with one another.
It's September 11, 2012. The National Day of Catalonia. And an estimated two million people are on the streets of Barcelona waving banners "Catalonia -- The next state in Europe" and "Independencia."
The EU won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its role in bringing democracy to a war-ravaged continent and in reconciling France and Germany.
A fight over the future of the Greek bailout is brewing between two key factions overseeing Europe's debt crisis, as officials publicly disagreed with the International Monetary Fund chief's call to give Athens more time to adhere to tough austerity measures.
Big divisions are appearing among the key players responsible for the eurozone's tough austerity program.
High-level splits over the handling of the eurozone crisis burst into the open on Thursday when Germany's finance minister rebuked the head of the International Monetary Fund after she warned that EU leaders should ease demands for tighter austerity in peripheral economies.
Niche markets, such as reusable diapers, are proving the buffer against recession for some Barcelona-based entrepreneurs.
It may have one of the fastest growing economies in the world -- but if you're young and out of work in Africa, the future remains bleak.
The global economy is under a "veil of uncertainty" as economic issues grip the U.S., eurozone and developing markets such as China, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Thursday in Japan.
EADS and BAE Systems have dropped plans to merge after failing to win political support for a $45 billion deal that would have created a European aerospace and defense giant.
China's top banker has pulled out of the International Monetary Fund meetings in Tokyo Wednesday in a move widely seen as a protest for the ongoing dispute between Japan and China over islands in the East China Sea.
Falling market confidence has led to money fleeing peripheral eurozone nations such as Spain and mounting pressure on banks, raising the risks of a credit crunch and recession, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released Wednesday at meetings in Tokyo.
A picture of popular Brazilian actress Juliana Paes climbing up onto a roof to catch a kite from the scene of TV soap opera "Gabriela" recently went viral online in the country.
As Co-Chairman of Universal Pictures, Donna Langley is one of an elite club: A female movie mogul in Hollywood.
More than any other European leader, Angela Merkel is unloved in Athens: she is seen as the main enforcer of drastic austerity measures imposed by the EU on Greece to resolve its debt crisis.
Trust the carriers of the Persian Gulf to cause mischief again. Having already destroyed the economics of the cosy international airline world, previously dominated by the European airlines, now the gulf carriers seem set to mess up the airline alliances too.
George Osborne is set to be told this autumn by the Office for Budget Responsibility he will have to plug another large hole in the public finances, extending austerity until 2018 and throwing the coalition's deficit reduction strategy into doubt.
Angela Merkel, German chancellor, is facing a new focus of domestic revolt from conservative critics of her eurozone rescue plans, with the launch of a group seeking to bolster support for eurosceptics in next year's general election.
The US is the brightest spot in the world economy, as another global recession threatens, according to the latest Brookings Institution-Financial Times tracking index.
Iran is in possession of the building blocks to construct a promising, fast growing, developing economy.
Honda is recalling about 268,000 CR-V vehicles due to concerns about the power window master switch, which could start a fire.
Brussels is bracing itself for a battle with David Cameron as fears grow that the British prime minister will block a proposed ?1tn seven-year spending plan and push for a two-tier EU budget.
Japanese carmakers appear to be suffering significant sales declines in China over a flare-up over disputed islands in the East China Sea, after Mazda reported that sales in the country fell 35 per cent year on year in September.
Strong smartphone sales helped Samsung Electronics beat market expectations in the third quarter, as the world's biggest technology company by sales achieved an operating profit increase of more than 85 per cent.
Russia is considering allowing western companies to own oil licences in its Arctic waters, a bold concession that would make the world's second largest crude producer much more attractive to foreign investors.
For the last 10 years, people have blithely commented, "Mobile is really changing our world." The use of mobile and wireless technologies has thrust people into a permanent technology age with the kind of warp speed that author Alvin Toffler predicted in his groundbreaking book "Future Shock" some 40 years ago.
In August Facebook revealed that its new headquarters in California, designed by Frank Gehry, will be, according to company founder Mark Zuckerberg, "the largest open floor plan in the world".
High U.S. taxes and political indecision are hindering the country's economic recovery, the head of General Electric has told CNN.
Slowing growth in China and India has hit prospects across the rest of Asia and led the Asian Development Bank to make the biggest cut in its regional economic growth forecast since 2008, according to its chief economist.
Nasdaq suffered its second high-profile embarrassment in six months when it was forced to cancel trades in Kraft Foods after a trading glitch caused the company's shares to soar nearly 30 per cent.
Portugal announced sweeping new tax increases in an effort to keep the country's faltering bailout programme on track amid a powerful public backlash against increased belt-tightening.
Bill Gross has compared the US government's reliance on debt financing to a "crystal meth" addict, in the latest in a series of dire warnings from one of the most influential investors in the bond market.
Spain, one of the eurozone's economic giants, is widely expected to become the bloc's next victim of the debt crisis.
The aviation sector is renowned as a carbon intensive business, but an increasing number of airports are looking to change that by integrating the latest green-tech into their daily operations.
Australia's central bank cut rates by one-quarter of 1 per cent on Tuesday citing the slowdown in China and Europe's recession in its decision to reduce rates to 3.25 per cent.
Google's stock market value topped that of long-time rival Microsoft for the first time on Monday, capping a decade-long struggle for dominance between leaders of the PC and internet eras of computing.
The Federal Reserve "printing money" will never solve the economic problems in the U.S., Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has told CNN.
At first glance of the television screen, it looks to me like a normal scene from a Middle Eastern open air market or souk.
Those who possess illegally downloaded of music or films in Japan can face prison term of up to two years and fines of nearly 2 million yen (U.S. $25,679), according to a new law which takes effect Monday.
A Chinese-owned company that has been blocked from building wind farms near a US navy test site in Oregon plans to sue President Barack Obama, arguing that his order to stop the project was unconstitutional.
More gloom descended on Japan's biggest manufacturers this quarter as a strong yen compounded the effects of China's slowdown and Europe's crisis, putting pressure on the central bank to add to last month's surprise monetary stimulus.
More graduates are opting for careers outside investment banking as the pull of big bonuses is replaced by job insecurity in an industry struggling to adapt to regulatory change.
Spain, striving to bring its economy out of the doldrums, this week sought to front-foot its financial problems by revealing the extent of its banking needs while pushing spending cuts and tax increases.
The announcement was carefully staged and the tone decidedly solemn. When French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault faced the cameras on Friday morning in Paris, at the Elysee Palace, to divulge President Francois Hollande's first budget, he appropriately talked of a "combat" budget.
A day after Spain presented its financial prescription for next year, France unveiled what is being dubbed its "toughest budget in 30 years."
An American Airlines executive's threats to discipline pilots over delays and file legal action against its pilots union may poison already heated contract negotiations, a union spokesman said Thursday.
Nike reported a fall in new orders in China and said it would revamp its strategy in the country as investor concern over its performance sent its shares down.
The name "Vinci" -- conjures notions of pioneers, engineering genius and one of Italy's most revered sons. Now, a modern pioneer is keeping the name in the spotlight.
Spain faces a test of unity over the coming months as regional elections in Catalonia and Galicia threaten to destabilize the debt-ridden nation.
Spain will create a new fiscal authority to oversee the new spending cuts, tax increases and structural adjustments included in a new budget presented Thursday.
The daughter of the tycoon who on Tuesday offered HK$500 million (US$64 million) to any man who would marry her found the proposal "quite entertaining," she told CNN.
Fear has crept into the foreign exchange markets: fear of central banks. Currency traders are rapidly shifting assets to countries seen as less likely to try to weaken their currencies, amid concern that the fresh round of US monetary easing could trigger another clash in the "currency wars".
Jaguar has revealed its new sports car -- which the luxury brand's boss tells CNN showcases a "quintessential Britishness."
A growing number of women in business are flocking to Twitter for real-time advice, support and networking.
Japan's biggest opposition party has elected former prime minister Shinzo Abe as its leader, hoping the nationalist-minded blue blood will be more successful in engineering a return to power than he was during his first stint leading the nation.
Government regulation of a cornerstone of financial markets has moved closer after a British banking body agreed to surrender its decades-long role in overseeing Libor, the scandal-riven global benchmark for borrowing costs.
Total SA says energy companies should not drill for crude in Arctic waters, marking the first time an oil major has publicly spoken out against offshore oil exploration in the region.
Toyota Motor is cutting production of vehicles for the Chinese market in a sign of the deepening economic impact of anti-Japanese demonstrations that swept the country this month.
Spain's Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, may not seem a natural performer but he appears all too familiar with the waltz; a typically slow dance, usually partnered, often mournful, with little room for improvement.
Much of Mexico's remaining oil wealth lies thousands of meters below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The question is: how to get at it.
Three former Olympus executives pleaded guilty on Tuesday to filing false financial reports in connection with a $1.7bn accounting fraud at the Japanese camera company.
If life in the eurozone's economically embattled periphery was not bad enough, now the coffee culture emblematic of southern Europe is under siege. Italians are having to cut back on their cappuccinos and espressos and Spaniards are dropping their cortados, contributing to a sharp drop in wholesale coffee prices.
Many of China's richest people have grown poorer over the past year and the number of its US dollar billionaires has fallen for the first time in seven years, according to the Hurun Rich List, which tracks Chinese wealth.
Join CNN's Leading Women team and special guest Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men, for an exclusive Twitter chat tonight, Friday 28 September.
Ikea's chief executive said the privately owned flatpack furniture retailer would continue to open up as he defended its culture after spying and bribery problems.
France has said Greece should be given more time to meet the terms of its international bailout, in the clearest call yet by a leading eurozone country for an easing of the stringent conditions attached to the ?174bn rescue package.
Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores.
The power of fuel will be overtaken by electric energy in a new global auto race being used to showcase eco-friendly cars.
The dice have been thrown; over the next couple of months consumers ready to upgrade their phone will be forced into making a decision. Do they go for a phone that is beautifully designed, will make them feel safe, and never for a moment make them feel out of their comfort zone? Or do they take a risk, a risk that sees them fundamentally change the way they use their phone, the way their phone looks, and even what their phone will be able to do? Decisions will have to be made.
James Murdoch is being lined up to take direct responsibility for News Corp's US television businesses, even as his record in the UK was attacked by media regulator Ofcom.
EU authorities are working behind the scenes to pave the way for a new Spanish rescue programme and unlimited bond buying by the European Central Bank, by helping Madrid craft an economic reform programme that will be unveiled next week.
The creators of the Swiss Army Knife are expanding into more "can't leave home without it" products.
James Murdoch's conduct at News International has been heavily criticised by Ofcom, but the broadcasting regulator has ruled that his shortcomings in dealing with the phone-hacking scandal did not warrant stripping its sister company, BSkyB, of its broadcast licence.
Dozens of Japanese factories and stores reopened Thursday in China after violent protests forced their closure amid fury over Japan's plans to buy disputed islands in the East China Sea.
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