Shares of Silvercorp Metals Inc., battling anonymous charges of accounting fraud, shot higher Thursday despite a downdraft among precious metals miners that battered their share prices after announcing a stock buyback and a cut in the number of shares outstanding.
Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron landed in Libya to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday, promising help for the new rulers that French and British air power helped to install and being told the favour may be repaid in business contracts.
The drought, which started in the fall of 2010 and hit eight provinces, has already touched more than 44 million people and cost the agriculture industry $4.5 billion,
Courts in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities over the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.
Fashion bloggers will help propel online sales of designer clothes, jewels and luxury cars to more than 11 billion euros ($15 billion) in 2015, a research report said on Thursday.
A China unit of major lead-acid battery maker Johnson Controls has halted production at its Shanghai factory as authorities investigate into an alleged lead pollution case, the official Shanghai Securities News said on Thursday.
Gadhafi told the world that his four-year-old girl died during the Regan-era bombing raids on Libya in 1986. But is she alive, living in Tripoli as a doctor?
Adobe Flash has finally come to Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, not directly supported but just that the new app tools will be able to export Flash content as an HTML5-supporting format.
Embattled miner Silvercorp Metals Inc., caught in a maelstrom of anonymous fraud allegations, said on Thursday it's pushing ahead with a share repurchase plan.
If Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO is off for the year, would its crackerjack board of directors now consider buying Yahoo in a reverse takeover?
As tech enthusiasts and Apple fans are eagerly awaiting the iPhone 5 that is expected to come in October, a Wall Street analyst expects the next iteration of the iPhone to start selling in China as early as December.
Gold prices fell Thursday around the world as investor fears of a Euro zone collapse gave way to hope that coordinated intervention by global monetary authorities could contain and even cure the continent's sovereign debt crisis.
While public schools have focused their energy on training students in math and reading since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the College Board announced SAT scores in combined reading and math this year have dropped to their lowest point since 1995.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.
Tang Jianhui is a patient bank customer, though he won't stick it out if he has to wait more than an hour, as he sometimes does.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday the world had entered a new economic danger zone and Europe, Japan and the United States all needed to make hard decisions to avoid dragging down the global economy.
The Italian parliament gave final approval on Wednesday to a much-altered austerity plan aimed at stemming a debt crisis engulfing the euro zone's third largest economy.
A global finance industry group on Wednesday urged regulators to withdraw plans for a capital surcharge on the world's largest banks, saying it would put economic recovery at risk.
Three senior Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management advisers left the bank earlier this month to form an independent San Francisco boutique, Seven Post Investment Office LP.
The European Union wants more clarity from Beijing on increased export quotas for rare earth minerals from dominant producer China in meetings next month and December, Europe's trade chief said.