AFP Iraq's oil exports reached their highest level in February since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad told AFP on Tuesday. "Oil exports for February reached 2.069 million barrels (per day) and this is the highest export level since 1990,"

Five years ago Adrian Holovaty stripped out the statistics and reorganised them in a much more readable format, separating them to detail the types of crime, peak times and which places to avoid. Chicagocrime.org became an instant hit and spawned the idea for Everyblock, a website launched in

Private equity firm Compass Capital Partners will re- launch the troubled appliance Kleenmaid brand by opening a clearance centre this weekend. Compass Capital Partners , which acquired the rights to the Kleenmaid brand late last year, will officially open a Kleenmaid

The Chinese company made it clear it had only reached a framework agreement with Mr Palmer's company, Resourcehouse. Mr Palmer, who announced the deal at the weekend, took aim at the media on Wednesday while defending his position that the deal had been struck with China Power International

The Marist Poll found that 57 percent of independent voters don’t approve of Obama’s job performance, up from 44 percent in a Dec. 8 survey . Twenty-nine percent of independents approve, down from 41 percent, and 14 percent said they were unsure. “If attracting independen

By Chris O'Brien Map: Brisbane 4000 Premier Anna Bligh opened a new kindergarten at Stretton in Brisbane's south today. She says more new kindergartens are planned for Brisbane, Logan, Toowoomba, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Yeppoon, Mackay and Townsville. "By 2014, we

A FORMER deputy governor of the Reserve Bank has urged the federal government to consider taxing short-term capital inflows to stop them destabilising Australia's economy. Stephen Grenville, who retired from the RBA in 2001 to make way for present governor Glenn Stevens, has broken with

Latest testing of the much-vaunted Poseidon discovery by ConocoPhillips and local junior partner Karoon in the Browse Basin off Western Australia has not produced the big confirming flow of gas to surface that supporters of the high-flying Karoon have been waiting on. But Karoon insists

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Zhu Min said officials will keep their current policies in place as they monitor inflation expectations in the economy. China’s economy rebounded stronger than anticipated in the fourth quarter, and the inflation