Mitt Romney has scored a landslide victory in Nevada's Republican nominating contest, cementing his frontrunner status.

Wales recorded their third successive rugby victory over Ireland on Sunday with a last minute penalty by Leigh Halfpenny providing a 23-21 victory in their Six Nations opener.

Russian Mikhail Youzhny beat Slovakian Lukas Lacko 6-2 6-3 to win the Zagreb Indoors for his second career ATP final

There is no change at the top of the Italian football league after draws for both Juventus and AC Milan.

Egypt is upgrading a prison hospital in Cairo where former president Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to.

MORE than $300 million of asset sales and increased gaming profits helped James Packer's private company to robust profits.

CHINA is set to launch a $2.2 billion bid for Australian-listed Extract Resources.

TUCKED in a corner of the Google bar at Davos, Ivan Glasenberg was in cracking form.

BANKS will be the first to front the market as the reporting season kicks off this week.

THE value of merger and acquisition activity in the global mining sector surged by about 50 per cent last year to top $US100 billion.

MORE than half the corporates in the ASX 50 have failed to adequately report non-financial risks, according to research.

IT all began with a phone call: Kmart told McPherson's it was dropping some of its houseware products in favour of its private label.

GLOBAL airline shares have started the year 30 per cent down on last year, as profits slumped 55 per cent in last year's final quarter.

CHEMICALS and explosives maker Orica is ready to restart of its Koorangang Island ammonia plant.

THE head of NAB has warned that the threat of a new credit squeeze is "increasingly real" and would impact on future interest rate cuts.

BELEAGUERED fund manager Equititrust will seek court orders on Monday to wind up two of its funds and have a temporary group of managers appointed to oversee the process.

THE Federal Government's move to lift a ban on uranium sales to India has ignited uranium stocks but share prices remain below levels before the Fukushima crisis.

FOUR hundred adult apprentices will be given a second chance to complete a formal qualification and be employed in the construction of three Queensland LNG plants.

BUDGET airline Tiger Airways has blamed the grounding of its fleet over safety concerns and high fuel prices for its nearly $50 million loss.

AS Optus notches up its 20th birthday in Australia, Jeff Whalley talks to Vicki Brady, one of its longest-serving executives.

OUR financial experts from across the generations answer your questions.

US stocks jumped overnight with news that its unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in three years.

SHE's Australia's richest person with an estimated wealth of $20billion but, until now, little has been known about Gina Rinehart.

A THIRD consecutive interest rate cut on Tuesday will be a lineball call, according to economists.

CONSUMERS have swatted Mortein and its mascot Louie the Fly after its parent company announced it would shut its Sydney factory.

PERSONAL emails of one of Australia's richest families reveals infighting over money and security.

A FEDERAL court injunction stopping tyre king Bob Jane from using his name in new business ventures has been overturned.

COLES is ringing up sales growth at threefold the rate of its foremost rival as the supermarket wars continue apace.

MARK Zuckerberg will have final say over directors, mergers, consolidation and asset sales even after Facebook goes public.