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Pentagon spends $100M on cyber attacks

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The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the past six months to repair damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.
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North Korea's Rocket rattled the world, the U.S. warned sanctions

North Korea launched a Taepodong-2 rocket over the Sea of Japan on Sunday. The launch rattled the North's neighbors and countries around the world. The U.S. and its rallies asked for quick punishment at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting held hours after launch.
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Emerging private equity slogs on despite crisis

Private equity investors intend to continue making new investment in emerging markets despite the global economic crisis, a survey showed on Monday, seeing them as offering the only growth in a faltering world.
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Asian shares rally to 6-month highs

Asian shares climbed to a six-month high on Monday, as hopes that the global economic downturn is nearing its bottom spur demand for riskier assets while hitting the yen and safe-haven government bonds.
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U.N. divided over North Korea rocket launch

North Korea fired a long-range rocket on Sunday, provoking international outrage, but a divided U.N. Security Council failed at an emergency meeting to agree on a reaction to Pyongyang's defiant move.
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High-tech cheaters jailed in China

Eight Chinese who used high-tech communications equipment, including mobile phones and wireless earpieces, to help their children cheat at university entrance exams have been jailed on state secret charges, local media said.
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G20 kickstarts trade, but Doha deal languishes

G20 leaders have kickstarted stalling world trade with a substantial infusion of funds to finance export credits, but promises to agree a new Doha trade deal and battle protectionism remain vague.
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United G20 inspires Asia stocks

G20 leaders convinced investors they were united enough to keep a risk-taking rally alive on Friday, lifting Asian stocks a fourth day, but the U.S. dollar fought back from early losses ahead of the latest U.S. payrolls number due later in the day.
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G20 supports Asia stocks ahead of U.S. jobs data

Efforts by G20 leaders convinced investors that policy makers were united enough to keep a risk taking rally alive on Friday, pushing up Asian equities for a fourth day and knocking the yen to a six-month low against the Australian dollar.
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G20 seals $1.1 trillion deal, markets rally

World leaders clinched a $1.1 trillion deal on Thursday to combat the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and said financial rules would be tightened to stop it happening again.
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China honors revolutionary martyrs online

China is encouraging people to pay respects to the martyrs of the Communist revolution on a new website set up ahead of a traditional holiday to remember the dead, state media said on Thursday.
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China to honor revolutionary martyrs online

China is encouraging people to pay respects to the martyrs of the Communist revolution on a new website set up ahead of a traditional holiday to remember the dead, state media said on Thursday.
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North Korea starts fuelling rocket

North Korea has begun fuelling a long-range rocket and could launch it by the weekend, CNN said, with the United States and others promising punishment for a move they say violates U.N. resolutions.

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