Riga - In an old Latvian adage, a king decides between life and death for his subjects with the placement of a comma.

San Francisco  - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Thursday officia

Brussels - Annual euro area inflation was confirmed at 3.3 per cent in April, with final results Thursday showing that rising food and oil prices were largely to blame.

Bratislava - The Slovak economy slowed down in the first quarter of 2008 to 8.7 per cent year-on-year from a record 14.3 per cent the previous quarter, according to government's preliminary data re

Vienna  - Austria's real GDP growth increased by 0.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 from the final quarter last year, Austria's Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) said on Thursday.