President Obama's administration wants to gradually phase out sanctions on Iran, but convincing Congress will be the hard part.
JPMorgan Chase’s decision to sell the lower Manhattan property is emblematic of changing real estate trends.
The latest official statistics show China's economy is well and truly back to its old growing habits.
The former NSA contractor claims he left the documents with a group of journalists from another country before he fled in June.
The vulnerabilities hadn't been seen before, mainly since the protocols controlling the plants aren't connected to the rest of the Internet.
As flight JL6 from Tokyo approaches New York, our world news editor is on schedule: around the world in under six days.
One Chinese university asked students who applied for tuition grants to present their case in front of their class.
The Indian Space Research Organization will launch a Mars Orbiter Mission probe named Mangalyaan in the next few weeks.
More than 50,000 of those being treated as property are in the United States.
The Global Slavery Index 2013 ranked India, China (2.9 million) and Pakistan (2.1 million) as having the largest number of people living in modern slavery.
The United States has saved itself just in the nick of time, but China doesn't care, as it downgraded the U.S.'s financial rating.
Local laws, which require publication of key financial information, were the reason for the relative transparency at Indian companies.
The market's enthusiasm for a short-term solution to the policy crisis seems to be waning quickly.
Residents of Singapore are vastly wealthier than their neighbors in Indonesia.
China's wealthy class now has a new sub-demographic: the crass who have cash.
The industrial conglomerate’s pace may be slowing, compared to more-specialized competitors.
India topped the list as home to half of the world's slave population while Mauritania ranked first in percentage terms.
The city-state has some of the strictest regulations to cool down the housing bubble, unlike other governments.
A Lao Airlines aircraft crashed into the Mekong River on Wednesday, reportedly killing everyone on board.
After a five-day visit to North Korea to see her imprisoned son Kenneth, Myunghee Bae is making an appeal to the U.S. government to get him released.
The fossilized remains of a 520-million-year-old extinct arthropod contained the earliest known complete nervous system.
While the government recently lifted the ban on game consoles, uncertainties remain for the future of gaming.