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German hedge fund manager Florian Homm, who had been a fugitive for more than five years, was arrested in Italy on U.S. fraud charges, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
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HAVANA-- Beyonce and Jay-Z caused a big stir in Havana as they marked their fifth wedding anniversary Thursday. Waitress Silvia Fernandez said Beyonce toured the eatery and looked at photos of past celebrity clients: Jack Nicholson, Jodie Foster, Danny Glover, Will Smith, James Belushi and more.
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BERLIN, April 5- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday he was glad the identities of thousands of holders of bank accounts in tax havens had been leaked because it would help do away with a business model that Cyprus had shown was flawed.
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Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 28,000 to a seasonally adjusted 385,000, the highest level since November, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON, April 4- The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose to its highest level in four months last week, suggesting the labor market recovery lost some steam in March.
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TOKYO, April 4- The Nikkei average is expected to open lower on Thursday, ahead of the outcome of the Bank of Japan's policy-setting meeting, on concerns over the U.S. recovery after weak service sector data and a slowdown in job hiring by private employers.
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CARACAS, April 3- Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles square off in an April 14 vote to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez. *Maduro entered politics in 2000 as a legislator in the National Assembly, where his combative defense of Chavez's policies made him one of the president's proteges.
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DETROIT, April 3- Mitsubishi Motors Corp is recalling 8,263 Outlander crossover vehicles in the United States and Puerto Rico for three different issues related to brake lights, fuel gauges and shifting the vehicles out of park, federal regulators said on Wednesday. There are 4,539 vehicles affected in the United States and Puerto Rico, the company told NHTSA.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- The United Nations said Tuesday that a growing number of people in Haiti are not getting enough to eat following a heavy storm season that damaged food crops. Malnutrition is worst in Haiti's far western corner in the administrative department of Grande-Anse, the U.N. said.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Puerto Rico to present her new memoir on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of fans in her parents' homeland. Sotomayor greeted a large crowd of students and teachers Tuesday morning as she entered the Law School of the University of Puerto Rico, where she spoke about her memoir, " My Beloved World."
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BERLIN- Buoyed by solid finances, roaring exports and low unemployment, Germany increasingly sees itself as the only grown-up in Europe, responsible for bringing wayward children into line to hold the family together.
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DUBAI, March 31- UK stocks of liquefied natural gas have swollen over the last week, data from National Grid shows, after three big Qatari deliveries helped replenish low heating fuel supplies during the coldest March in over half a century.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- A U.S. hotel chain opened a hotel in Haiti on Thursday for the first time in 15 years. The new hotel is part of a larger hotel boom in Haiti that has taken hold since the earthquake in 2010 destroyed thousands of buildings.
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ORLANDO, Fla.-- The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida was sentenced Wednesday to one-and-a-half years in prison for stealing $125,000 in party funds, marking the fall of a man who once was one of the most powerful political figures in the state.
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BALTIMORE-- Autopsy results are expected to be released soon in the death of a Virginia woman aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, officials said Wednesday. FBI Baltimore field office spokesman Rich Wolf said the 64- year-old woman from Midlothian, Va., died of "undetermined causes" while traveling on the Enchantment of the Seas.
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March 27- Puerto Rico's new government is eyeing more than $1 billion in tax hikes and other changes meant to fix chronic budget gaps worrying U.S. bond buyers and Wall Street credit rating agencies.
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*His 850 troops police buffer zone in Cyprus. BUFFER ZONE, Cyprus, March 27- When Chao Liu enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in the dying years of China's Cultural Revolution, he never imagined he would end up in Cyprus wearing a blue U.N. beret.
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*Total resources of Society of Lloyd's 59 bln stg. LONDON, March 27- The Lloyd's of London insurance market returned to profit in 2012, bouncing back from a 516 million pounds loss in 2011 after claims fell on account of fewer natural disasters. Listed companies which operate syndicates at Lloyd's include Catlin, Hiscox and Amlin.
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LONDON, March 27- The Lloyds Of London insurance market returned to profitability in 2012, bouncing back from a 516 million pounds loss in 2011 after claims fell on account of fewer natural disasters.
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MOSCOW, March 26- Russian businesses and banks that face losses from the European Union's bailout of Cyprus are considering legal action but may have a hard time making a case, say lawyers who are combing through treaties find strategies to recover funds.
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March 26- Aeropostale Inc lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the teen clothing retailer of defrauding shareholders in 2011 by hiding problems with excess inventory and slow sales that ultimately weighed on its earnings and stock price.