Kuala Lumpur's Petronas Twin Towers this week Photo: Chatime The annual illegal burning of the rain forest peat lands on the Indones...

News of a possible €8bn loss on pre-euro swaps is embarrassing for Italy and won't help if Rome has to go to the ECB, says Reuters...

It's striking that given two Irish economic disasters in the space of a generation, that followed appalling periods of misgovernance, s...

May 30 - The public backlash on corporate tax avoidance is growing -- and politicians are listening. At this week's OECD meeting anot...

Nicolas Sarkozy, when French president, wanted the Irish corporate tax rate raised from 12.5%. The Irish government insisted that effective...

Michael Noonan, Irish finance minister, appears to be taking a leaf from the playbook of Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, who on Tuesday at a US...

NAMA Wine Lake, the blog that has tracked NAMA – National Asset Management Agency - since Ireland's bad bank was created in 2009, has...

In his full remarks at the Google I/O conference Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Larry Page outlined the company's strategy, address...

Larry Page, Google Inc. chief executive, says he has been diagnosed with vocal cord paralysis, which has left his voice softer than before...

How big of a money maker are apps? What country's GDP is the size of the global app economy? How does app use compare to TV in terms ...

The Irish manufacturing sector moved further into contractionary territory during April, with output and new orders each declining for th...

Otmar Issing, former ECB and Bundesbank chief economist recalls how he warned against the creation of a  currency union between Eastern ...

I think the probability of a Euro breakup in the medium term is very low. What happens in the longer term after a decade or more, of low g...

The Wall Street Journal on the Irish: Was St. Patrick even Irish? Will drinking green Guinness make you a Plastic Paddy? And can you learn...

Industry report 2013

Steve Jobs narrates the first Think different commercial "Here's to the Crazy Ones". It never aired. Richard Dreyfuss did th...

A Samsung US commercial poking fun at Apple, that would have driven Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, nuts if he was alive: It ha...

The historian and author of "Return of a King" describes the hasty British takeover of Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the...

Will China's rise lead to the end of capitalism? Will armies of robots replace the world's workforce? And will China be able to bl...

Conor Killeen, the chief executive and founder of Key Capital, says Ireland's real leverage with the Germans is the currency exit option...

In an exceptional year for tech innovation, not every idea had the brightest bulb. Find out which ones were the absolute worst, with Reut...

From amateur and security camera footage to images shot by professional journalists, here is a look at some of the most incredible video ...

Advanced economies could wing it through 2013, according to George Magnus, senior economic adviser to UBS, but there are some questions m...

In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre, legislators have returned to the debate over gun rights. Adam Winkler, a professor of consti...