Nearly 300,000 toys sold across the UK are being recalled because of fears that children could swallow small magnets attached to them. The Canadian firm Mega Brands said around 2.4 million of the Chinese-made action figures had been withdrawn from sale

A previously unknown portrait of Mozart has been found, and could be the most important portrait of the renowned composer ever to come to light, a British academic said Friday. The discovery -- which could be worth several million dollars -- was owned by

Furniture retailer Ikea is recalling almost 1,000 baby highchairs in Britain because of safety fears. The Swedish giant, the world's largest furniture retailer, said 930 "Gulliver" highchairs sold in its 17 stores across the country in January and Feb

A man celebrated his 60th birthday in unexpected style at the weekend when a 50 pence bet on the horses turned him into an instant millionaire. Fred Craggs, from Yorkshire, was not even aware of his win when he walked into a branch of the William Hill bet

An employee closing Trig's Minocqua Shell for the night mistakenly entered the price of a gallon of gasoline as 32.9 cents instead of $3.299 on Monday night. Word of the bargain spread fast in the rural northern Wisconsin community.

Sainsbury's says it is to phase out battery eggs by 2012. The chain plans to ensure that 100% of the 600m eggs it sells each year do not come from caged hens. Instead they will come from either free range birds which roam outside or "barn eggs" hatched

Virgin Media could be hit with a £400million fine after failing to provide accurate details of 1.5million of its customers' addresses for the emergency services. The firm, Britain's second biggest phone company, was in urgent talks with industry watchdog

His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002 when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency to an office of AT&T in San Francisco...much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic.

U.S. mortgage finance company that stunned Wall Street with a $2 billion quarterly loss earlier this week, plans to sell $5 billion of preferred stock in a deal to be launched as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday.

The Rainforest Alliance applauds the publication of the first Bible to be printed on paper from forestlands certified to the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the global standard-setter for responsible forest management.