A presidential election in Niger aimed at returning the West African uranium exporter to civilian rule will go ahead as planned on January 31 after logistical problems were solved, the ruling junta said late on Monday.
Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said he expected to spend another 10 years at the company, after his surprise handover last week to co-founder Larry Page.
Roger Federer made a quick dash into an eighth straight Australian Open semi-final on Tuesday but Novak Djokovic's resounding win over Thomas Berdych was a warning the Swiss cannot yet count on a sixth final.
Nine Chinese cities in the southern part of the nation around the Pearl River Delta are proposed to be merged to create world’s largest mega city at a cost of $300 billion with a population of 42 million.
Billionaire Stanley Ho, the 89-year old godfather of a casino business empire based in Macau in southern China, is battling members of his own family over the control of companies that comprise his immense wealth.
Outgoing Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday he expected to spend another 10 years at Google, after announcing his surprise handover last week to co-founder Larry Page.
Gold fell to its lowest in ten weeks on Tuesday, putting the price on course for its worst monthly performance in 13 months as safe-haven demand evaporated and investors booked further profits on the 2010 rally.
China asked importers of caprolactam from the US and the European Union (EU) to pay a security deposit, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Monday.
Leather goods maker Coach Inc reported a larger quarterly profit as U.S. luxury spending rebounded and sales in China soared over the holiday season.
China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has sued Motorola to delay the sale of the latter's wireless infrastructure business to Nokia Siemens Networks. The lawsuit alleges that such a sale would possibly result in illegal transfer of Huawei's intellectual property.
Europe needs to strengthen its financial rescue fund to reduce the risk of renewed global instability as U.S. tax cuts and buoyant emerging economies help propel the recovery elsewhere, the IMF said on Tuesday.
The number of tigers in Asia could be nearly tripled if all the countries that support the population would be treated as large scale landscapes, a study by some of the world's leading conservation scientists said.
Europe should strengthen its financial rescue fund to reduce the risk of renewed global instability as U.S. tax cuts and emerging economies help propel recovery elsewhere, the IMF said on Tuesday.
China refuted allegations that its J-20 stealth fighter jet had been constructed by gleaning technology from a downed US fighter.
A US Engineer, 66-year-old Noshir Gowadia has been given 32-year imprisonment over selling sensitive military technology to China.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it was easing restrictions of exports of high-technology goods to India in recognition of the two countries' stronger economic and national security ties.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Tuesday Morning, Radvision, Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Skyworks Solutions, and China Valves Technology. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Sify Technologies, Rediff.com India, Woodward Governor, Acacia Research, and Marshall Edwards.
India's new sports minister on Monday sacked the chief organiser of last year's scandal-ridden Delhi Commonwealth Games, Suresh Kalmadi, as the coalition government caught in a web of corruption cases seeks to repair its public image.
A package of U.S. tax cuts should give a lift to a global economic recovery that had already begun to gain speed late last year, the IMF said on Tuesday as it revised its world growth forecast higher.
Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and one of its best known philanthropists, said on Monday he hopes his passion for giving will soon start to take hold among the super-rich of China and India.
Despite a series of high-profile recalls and safety issues, Japanese auto major Toyota Motors still managed to beat General Motors in total unit sales and remain the largest car manufacturer in the planet.
China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has filed a lawsuit to block Motorola from selling one of its business units to Nokia Siemens Networks, demanding that the $1.2 billion deal be altered to avoid infringing on intellectual property rights.
