Asian share markets rose broadly on Monday, with high-tech stocks following gains in U.S. Full story

OVER 99 percent of the e1/4259 million Aid Programme for the Turkish Cypriot community has been contracted by the European Commission before last Friday's deadline, said an EU statement yesterday. A total of 880 contracts, most of them grants, have been signed Full story

To understand Europe's growing fascination with the wide-eyed innocents and baroque demons of the Japanese comic books known as manga, it may help to look back at the end of the nineteenth century. Full story