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The decision to go public is the latest twist for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, but some are puzzled by the timing.

The union that represents 27,000 machinists in Washington State, Oregon and Kansas walked off the job as Boeing's books are bulging with demand for its planes.

Advisers poring over the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac concluded that Freddie's accounting methods had overstated its cushion, officials said.

France is likely to become the first country off the block to sign a deal with India to provide nuclear reactors, when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarks on a high profile visit to the United States and France this month end to mark India's entry into global nuclear business.

Real estate giant DLF, telecom major Bharti Airtel and energy firms ONGC and Cairn India have made their way to the Dow Jones BRIC 50 Index, a blue-chip index measuring performance of 50 largest and most liquid companies in Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The monsoon rains have begun showing a decreasing trend over the major parts of northwest and north India in tune with the natural cycle in the second half of the Hindu calendar month Bhadrapada.

The Yahoo Japan website is under investigation for identity theft.

Yulia Tymoshenko accused Ukraine's president of jeopardising both bilateral relations with Russia and western integration initiatives by labelling her a Kremlin conspirator

West Bengal's government and opposition were inching towards a solution to a conflict over farmers' land that is threatening to scupper the state's flagship industrial project, the Tata Nano