L-R: President, Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Hon Baraladei Daniel Igali and Vice- President, NWF, Prince F. A. B Adenekan during the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected executives of the association on 17th, May 2013 at the V.I.P Lounge, Main bowl National Stadium, Abuja. (TRADE NEWSWIRE): The emergence of new members ... Read More

The company is being offered as much as $146.5 million by Kentucky to expand a plant in the state that’s Toyota’s largest in North America. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Los Angeles: Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s largest automaker, is preparing to start production of Lexus cars in the US for the ... Read More

USS Freedom, the first of up to four American warships Singapore will host, docked at Changi Naval Base on Thursday 18 April, 2013. (photo by Dylan Loh, Channel NewsAsia) SINGAPORE: A US warship designed to fight in coastal areas arrived Thursday in Singapore for its Southeast Asian deployment, underlining President ... Read More

(TRADE NEWSWIRE): The Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) announced today the formation of its most recent regional affiliate, the African Philanthropy Forum (APF), TRADE NEWSWIRE reports. In  a statement obtained BY TRADE NEWSWIRE from The Tony Elumelu Foundation on Friday in Lagos, the APF will take the form of a peer-learning network ... Read More

Handout images taken from a video released by the FBI and acquired by AFP shows the two suspects together (L) in the crowd before the blast at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 and "suspect 2" (R) standing behind a lady in the crowd. (AFP/FBI) BOSTON, Massachusetts - Police ... Read More

The "Twitter" logo seen on a tablet screen (AFP/File/Lionel Bonaventure) SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter said it acquired the emerging music software firm We Are Hunted, amid reports that the popular messaging platform was readying its own music service. "Welcome to Twitter! wearehunted," a tweet from the company said late Thursday. San Francisco-based We ... Read More

A Facebook employee holds a phone that is running the new "Home" program. (AFP/Justin Sullivan) NEW YORK: Facebook said on Tuesday that features from its new Home software for Android-powered smartphones will begin spreading this week to Apple's popular iPhones. "Home was about our ability to demonstrate what you can do ... Read More

The IMF forecast that France will fall into recession this year with PARIS: The IMF forecast on Tuesday that France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, will fall into recession this year with the economy contracting by 0.1 per cent. In its latest revisions, the International Monetary Fund dropped its previous forecast of ... Read More

US investigators zeroed in Wednesday on the suspected pressure cooker bombs that exploded at the Boston marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 180, as they hunted for perpetrators. BOSTON, Massachusetts - US investigators zeroed in Wednesday on the suspected pressure cooker bombs that exploded at the Boston marathon, killing ... Read More

Visitors look at a wall with Panasonic 3D monitors during the IFA consumer electronic fair in Berlin on September 02, 2011. (AFP/Michele Tantussi) The president and chief executive of Japanese electronics giant Panasonic will have their salaries halved as part of a move to take the blame for the firm's ... Read More