One of the first challenges of budgeting is figuring out what expenses are necessary.

One of the world's biggest-selling drugs for diabetes should never have been licensed and should now be withdrawn, says the British Medical Journal. It says its investigation into concerns about the drug, Avandia, made by British multinational GlaxoSmithKline, which has been linked with increased heart attacks, are too great to allow its continued use.

MANAMA - PROSECUTORS have pressed terrorism charges against Shi'ite opposition activists in Bahrain, raising tension in the run-up to an October 23 election in the Gulf state where a Sunni royal family rules a mainly Shi'ite population. The charge sheet released on Saturday accused the 23 activists - 10 of them prominent opposition figures - of 'undermining national security.' It alleged that ...

In her new book, Donna Thomson, whose son has cerebral palsy, gives a moral, philosophical and economic examination of how we assess the value of a life

Here’s a challenge. How fast could you pay your mortgage off? The sad realisation hit me earlier in the year that I’m not likely to get rich anytime soon. I know – why did I even think that would happen?