Almost two-thirds of Americans have thought about starting their own business, according to a recent Yahoo Small Business poll. Most of them will never act on their thoughts.

US President George W Bush famously ‘defamed’ Syria and its Middle Eastern neighbours. But the West could be missing out on rich pickings. Here, Inverness-based economist Tony Mackay reveals the truth about life on the road to Damascus

Aug. 15, 2008 (SmartPros) The U.S. economy has already entered a recession and the outlook remains negative according to a majority of chief financial officers and senior-level executive CPAs surveyed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accounta

Every year 5,720 people die in the European Union as a consequence of work-related accidents, according to Eurostat figures. Besides that, the International Labour Organisation estimates that an additional 159,500 workers in the EU die every year from occ

21/04/2008 Over half of finance and accounting professionals questioned in a recent survey cited Dubai, New York or Sydney as the top cities they would be most likely to relocate to (52%, 52% and 51.3% respectively).