Drinks group Campari <CPRI.MI> has agreed to buy Canada's Forty Creek Distillery (FCD) for 185.6 million Canadian dollars ($170 million), the Italian company said on Wednesday.

Grenoble - Michael Schumacher's family is "confident" the Formula One legend will recover from a life-threatening skiing accident that left him with severe brain injuries, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.Doctors put him in a medically induced coma after the December...

Finnish start-up Next Games has raised $6 million in funding in the latest of several venture capital investments in the Nordic country's booming mobile games industry, the company said on Wednesday.

There are small signs of encouragement in Michael Schumacher's condition but the most successful former Formula One champion of all time faces a long fight to recover after suffering severe head injuries in a skiing accident, his agen...

Frankfurt - E.ON, Germany's leading power supplier, said on Wednesday it booked a sharp drop in profits last year as a result of Europe's energy transition and expected earnings to fall again this year.E.ON said in a statement its net profit plunged 46 percent to ...

Police searched and secured the headquarters of social media giant Facebook Inc on Tuesday evening after receiving a threat against the company, which San Francisco-area authorities said turned out to be "totally not credible".

San Salvador - The conservative candidate in El Salvador's tight presidential runoff, in which no winner has been declared, demanded a new vote be held.Preliminary results show Salvador Sanchez Ceren, a former rebel commander, edging out conservative Norman Quijano b...

Seoul - South Korea's spy agency chief came under growing pressure to step down Wednesday over a scandal with political ramifications involving the fabrication of evidence in an espionage case.The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has been accused of forging...

Caracas - Students and opponents of the Venezuelan government have called a new rally for Wednesday to mark a month of protests in Caracas, as the death toll from demo-related violence reached 21.Students throwing rocks and homemade firebombs clashed late Tuesda...

Sydney - Australia has no plans to change its flag, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said, adding there is little public appetite for removing the British Union Jack from the national symbol.It follows an announcement by neighbouring New Zealand -- whose flag ...

Santiago - Socialist Michelle Bachelet promised to tackle inequality as she took the oath of office, returning to power after four years to lead this prosperous South American country once more."Chile has but one great enemy, and its name is inequality.

Paris - A rainbow-like item called a "glory" was identified in Venus' Tuesday (March 11) by the European Space Agency. This is the first time a glory has been "fully imaged"on another planet.

CVS Caremark Corp. could be facing as much as $29 million in fines after allegedly losing track of around 37,000 prescription pain pills at four of its California stores. The federal probe stems from an incident in a Sacramento area store in 2012.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific said on Wednesday its net profit tripled last year, thanks to fuel cost savings and an increase in passengers.The airline said profit jumped to HK$2.62 billion ($338 million) from HK$862 million in 2012 as revenue ...

Shanghai - When condom maker Durex wants to send an intimate message to customers in China, it uses a homegrown instant messaging platform called WeChat which has taken the country by storm in just three years.WeChat -- known as "weixin", or micro-message in Chin...

Hong Kong - Dressed in Maoist garb, protesters staged a parody of a communist rally in one of Hong Kong’s busy commercial centers where tourists from mainland China often come to purchase items unavailable on the mainland.

Indian Wells - Novak Djokovic shook off a mid-match lapse to beat Alejandro Gonzalez and set up a clash with red-hot Croatian Marin Cilic at the Indian Wells hardcourt tennis tournament.Djokovic, the world number two and second seed, defeated world number 91 Gonzalez...

Tripoli - Libya's premier was ousted by parliament after a tanker laden with crude oil from a rebel-held terminal broke through a naval blockade and escaped to sea, underscoring the weakness of the central government.A no-confidence motion was approved by 124 of...

Washington - A top US lawmaker's hotly disputed charge that the CIA illegally spied on Senate staff has roiled the intelligence community, fraying ties between the agency and its overseers in Congress.Senator Dianne Feinstein brought what had been a behind-the-scen...

'In Fear’ follows a couple on one of their first dates, which turns into a nightmare when they become lost in the remote Irish countryside.