World stocks fall as data takes shine off earnings

World Bank president Robert Zoellick has warned that global recovery is still fragile and uncertain.

World oil prices have climbed as investors shrug off concerns that the US economic recovery could stall.

World oil prices climbed on Friday as investors shrugged off concerns that the US economic recovery could stall.

World markets fell Friday despite another batch of positive earnings statements in Asia and Europe as investors fretted about a key U.S. economic growth report due later.

The world's most aged professor, 110-year-old biochemist and nutritionist Zheng Ji, passed away at his home in Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, at 6:20 pm on Thursday, Nanjing-based Contemporary Express reported.

THE World Potato Congress will hold its next meeting in Scotland in 2012.

A world-class biotech laboratory is being built at the University Campus Suffolk (UCS) after it received £500,000 of funding.