As millions of viewers tuned in to watch the Tiangong 1 space lab launch on China's state-run CCTV, they were treated to a bizarre musical selection: America the Beautiful.
The closest one may ever come to being touched by a deity may be at southern California's Bowers Museum when Warriors, Tombs and Temples: China's Enduring Legacy opens this week showing off an ornate case that holds a bone from the Buddha's finger.
With Kobe Bryant leaving to play ball in Italy during the lockout, other superstars might follow.
Chad's first oil refinery, a joint venture with China National Petroleum Company, has suspended production, arguing that the price agreed with Chadian authorities to supply them was driving it into heavy losses.
China and Tanzania have signed a $1 billion loan agreement to build a major natural gas pipeline in east Africa's second-biggest economy, a Tanzanian newspaper quoted the country's energy minister as saying on Friday.
South African stock prices edged lower on Friday, concluding the worst quarterly performance for over a year, as concerns about the euro zone debt crisis weighed on resource companies and others sensitive to global demand.
Stocks were on course for their worst quarter in three years on Friday as economic data from China and Europe fueled fears of a global economic slowdown while Morgan Stanley plummeted on concerns about its exposure to European banks.
Typhoon Nesat charged across Asia this week from the Philippines to China's Hainan Island and Vietnam.
Stocks fell on Friday as economic data from China and Europe fueled fears of a global economic slowdown while Morgan Stanley plummeted due fears about its exposure to European banks.
Stocks fell on Friday, putting equities on track for their worst quarter since 2008, as economic data from China and Europe fueled fears of a global economic slowdown.
Stocks fell on Friday, putting equities on track for their worst quarter since 2008, as economic data from China and Europe fueled fears of a global economic slowdown.
China will keep monetary conditions tight in its effort to rein in stubborn inflation, the country's central bank said on Friday, adding that containing domestic price pressures remains its priority.
Stocks opened lower on Friday, putting equities on track for their fifth straight monthly decline as China's manufacturing shrank and kept fears of a global economic slowdown in the forefront.
Stocks opened lower on Friday, putting equities on track for their fifth straight monthly decline, as China's manufacturing shrank and kept fears of a global economic slowdown in the forefront.
Kobe Bryant has reached a verbal agreement with Italian basketball club Virtus Bologna to play for them during the NBA lockout.
Global miner Rio Tinto is fighting a legacy of bad publicity as it tries to persuade the Mongolian public a $10 billion copper deposit it took over from Ivanhoe Mines last year is in safe hands.
Stock index futures fell on Friday after data showing a continued contraction in China stirred fears the global economy was slowing.
Stock indexes fell more than 1 percent at the open on Friday, putting equities on track for their fifth straight monthly decline, as China's manufacturing shrank and stirred fears the global economy was slowing.
The larger screen rumor simply will not die, but now there is more evidence 4G could be supported. Only on AT&T and Verizon of course.
Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Friday, putting equities on track for their fifth straight monthly decline, as China's manufacturing shrank and stirred fears the global economy was slowing.
China isn't the only country eyeing a Heavenly Palace. Several developing nations are also creating space agencies and building rockets in hopes that one day they, too, may have citizens in space.
China's manufacturing sector contracted for a third consecutive month in September, suggesting that the world's second-largest economy is not immune to global headwinds, while factory inflation quickened.
