Manila - The world's three largest lighting companies on Friday launched a plan to rid the Asian market of shoddy energy-saving lights called compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), which cast a poor lig
New Delhi - Three communist-ruled states in India shut down Thursday to protest the federal government's decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel fuel and cooking gas, officials said.
Vienna - The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) dropped by more than 3 dollars on Wednesday, OPEC said on Thursday.
Ljubljana - The shutdown of the Slovenian nuclear power plant at Krsko following a coolant leak was standard procedure and "nothing unusual," plant director Stane Rozman said Thursday.