Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks dropped for the first time in three days, led by a sell off in mining companies as fears of a global recession deepened, hurting demand for metals. Rio Tinto Group Plc and BHP Billiton Ltd. lost more than 4 percent ...

Worries about the global economy and concerns over banking giant Citigroup heightened recession fears in London, driving the blue-chip index down to 3780.96. The year's previous low was on October 27, when the FTSE 100 finished at 3852.59. Profit ...

In the late autumn of 1986 I was strolling on Beachy Head when I saw an extraordinary thing. Watched by a crowd of people, an army Land Rover appeared to accelerate over the cliff and fall, in a slow-motion parabola, hundreds of feet to the Channel ...

Wincing on a windswept mountainside in arid, northern Chile, James Bond's new incarnation Daniel Craig is on a quest for realism - and he has the bruises to prove it. Breaking after a gruelling 10-hour day of filming Bond's latest adventure, Quantum ...

Wincing on a windswept mountainside in arid, northern Chile, James Bond's new incarnation Daniel Craig is on a quest for realism - and he has the bruises to prove it. Breaking after a gruelling 10-hour day of filming Bond's latest adventure, Quantum ...

Quantum of Solace,' produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, is set an hour after the end of Casino Royale, which introduced movie fans to English actor Craig, who turned 40 while filming on location in Panama in March. The cast does not ...

The FTSE 100 plunged ten per cent shortly after opening after the US stock market hit a new five-year low yesterday. Commodities continued to rally on the index, while financial stocks slipped back into the red as investors lost confidence in the ...