In a colourful ceremony Omani government ministries and representatives of Vale, the Brazilian-based largest mining company, laid the initial phase of a new industrial complex in Soh...

US stores have opened early and offered steep discounts to encourage consumers to part with their cash as the Christmas shopping season kicks off. Crowds of shoppers turned up at dawn to snare ...

  Popular social networking sites, including the giants of these, MySpace and Facebook, have undoubtedly changed the human fabric of the Internet so it is not surprising that the Editors of ...