OTTAWA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Ballard Power Systems Inc (BLD.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (BLDP.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Friday that it hopes a major supply deal with telecom companies in India for back-up power...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish Academy is concerned its decision to award Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio the Nobel Prize for Literature may have leaked ahead of the announcement, a prominent member of the academy was quoted as saying on Friday. The...

By Tamora Vidaillet and Huw Jones PARIS (Reuters) - European leaders raced against the clock on Sunday to clinch a rescue strategy for banks battered by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, under intense pressure to throw them a lifeline...

By Lesley Wroughton and Francois Murphy WASHINGTON/ COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France (Reuters) - The IMF warned on Saturday that the global financial system was on the brink of meltdown, while France and Germany pushed ahead with a pan-European...

By Leila Cobo MIAMI (Billboard) - Duranguense music continues to be a driving force in regional Mexican music, four years after it exploded onto Billboard's charts. The bouncy beat, a mix of traditional banda with electronic instruments --...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the call girl at the center of the Elliot Spitzer sex scandal, watched the potential earnings from her new-found fame drop by $1 million on Tuesday as old nude videos of her emerged. Adult DVD...

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A magazine cover photo of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding one of her newborn twins may have turned the superstar actress into a role model for new mothers. The photo, taken by Jolie's partner Brad Pitt, will...

By Emily Kaiser and Mike Peacock WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. government pushed on Saturday to finalize a plan to buy direct stakes in American banks as the International Monetary Fund warned markets could drop another 20 percent in a...