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Japan has gone into a state of maximum alert after plutonium was found in the soil around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant and radioactive water leaked from a reactor in the plant.

U.S. stocks gave up modest gains and ended slightly lower as declines from consumer and technology companies’ shares weighed in the final hour of trading session.

Was it revulsion towards the high-end Victorian style or was it an influence of the elegant trade products from countries like China and Japan during the 19th century?

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Technology Research, GSI Group, China Electric Motor, ServiceSource International, and Powerwave Technologies. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Anadigics, A123 Systems, Euroseas, Fuqi International, and Hoku.

China's share of global authorship went up from 4.4% to 10.2% between the periods studied, taking the country from sixth to second position globally. Whether it can match quantity with quality, however, remains to be seen.

Chinese inflation will probably rise more than 5 percent in the year to March, pushing the central bank to raise interest rates, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.

U.S. stocks gave up modest gains to turn lower in the final minutes of Monday's trading session, as financials and materials sectors joined consumer and tech stocks in the red.

Chances for a deal this year in long-running world trade talks are fading and likely will remain remote unless world leaders become personally involved, an influential U.S. business group said on Monday.

A new study from McAfee says more cybercriminals are focused on corporate data, rather than individual people.

The Indian government on Monday released new tiger population numbers at 1,706, an increase of 295 in the last four years. India has half of the world’s remaining wild tigers population and the decline in their numbers has been alarmingly high in the last five decades.

Consumer goods giants Procter & Gamble and Unilever will both raise detergent and soap prices in China by up to 15 percent next month, local media reported, underscoring the battle the government faces with inflation.

RBC Capital Markets initiated its rating on shares of Zuoan Fashion Ltd (NYSE: ZA) at outperform, speculative risk and a price target of $9.

Ruling out laymen speculation on a connection between the earthquakes that have stuck nations across the world including the powerful Christchurch and Japan ones, a new study has found that large quakes do not cause temblors in far away lands.

Chinese police have arrested prominent writer Ran Yunfei for challenging the ruling Communist Party, people close to the blogger said on Monday, the latest in a string of arrests in a deepening crackdown on dissent.

U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Monday as foreign headwinds remained in view following three days of U.S. equities gains, suggesting the recent period of volatility wasn't over.

U.S. stocks gained for the third consecutive day on Friday as investors shook off global fears and focused instead on upbeat earnings.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will re-open 12 of its Seiyu stores in Japan which were affected by the earthquake, and is hoping to open the remaining 12 impacted stores as soon as possible, a spokesman for the U.S.-based retailer said.

The symbolic action of turning lights out for an hour in an expression of concern for the environment is in the process of being officially observed in thousands of communities across 134 countries and territories on Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe.

The International Monetary Fund warned Latin America on Saturday that economies across the region are overheating, and Canada urged policymakers not to underestimate the risks from rising inflation.

Canada says the current commodities boom could last decades and warned developing countries against being too timid with interest rate hikes, while the International Monetary Fund said that much of the Latin American economy is overheating.

China said on Friday it complied with most measures at issue in an international trade ruling made against its restrictions on copyright-intensive goods such as films, books and music.