BANGKOK (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of opposition activists paraded through Thailand's sprawling capital on Saturday to try to win over Bangkok's middle classes to their anti-government campaign. The red-shirted supporters of ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra moved around the city of 15 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives lobbied undecided members for support and voiced growing confidence on Friday they will win a close vote on final passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul. The House will vote on Sunday afternoon on President Barack Obama's ...

"I am deeply concerned about the facts that have come to light regarding the demise of Lehman Brothers and the accounting manipulation that contributed to it," Senator Christopher Dodd wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder. "I respectfully ask you to commission a task force to ...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - The U.S. pay czar will slash the number of top General Motors Co executives who will receive base salaries of more than $500,000 this year. Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg said he plans to release the 2010 compensation decisions next week on the five large U.S. companies that are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow. While it is true that clever devices like the iPhone or Android ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators charged with crafting rules to regulate the $450 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market have failed to reach an agreement, Democratic Senator Jack Reed said on Friday. Reed and Republican Senator Judd Gregg had been trying to write rules to shed light on ...

The segment, called the D-block, is part of the 700 megahertz band of the airwaves that raised about $19 billion for the U.S. government when other blocks were sold to carriers in 2008. But the D-Block did not sell because carriers did not like some of the conditions for use. Companies are waiting ...

Made by Merck & Co and sold under the brand name Zocor, simvastatin is also is sold in combination with ezetimibe as Vytorin, and in combination with niacin as Abbott Laboratories Simcor, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a statement. Simvastatin also is available as a ...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will remove a provision from the financial reform bill that bank regulator Sheila Bair said could allow for "backdoor bailouts," a panel spokeswoman said on Friday. Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, ...

Its shares fell 19 percent in early Nasdaq trading to their lowest level in more than a year after the company warned on Thursday that revenue for the current quarter would be far below Wall Street's expectations, amid tepid demand for its smartphones. In the third quarter, the maker of the Pre ...