Stock index futures pointed to a sharply lower open on Wall Street on Monday, as renewed fears of a Greek debt default prompt investors to book some of last week's gains and turn to safer assets such as gold.
Researchers have unearthed a pair of fossilized teeth on the BLM land in northeast Oregon, which suggest that the American Beaver has changed very little in the last 7 million years.
Beaver Teeth More Than 7 Million Years Old
The Indian rupee fell on Monday tracking the euro's losses and weak domestic equities as heightened worries over European debt crisis pushing investors to cut holdings in riskier assets.
Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's conservatives in a regional vote in Berlin on Sunday, handing the chancellor her sixth election defeat this year ahead of a key euro zone vote in parliament in two weeks.
Samsung Electronics Co. has accused Apple of patent infringement in Australia, widening a growing dispute between the two companies over smartphone technologies. Samsung is also appealing a German court's ruling to ban the sale of its Galaxy Tab in Germany.
Greece on Sunday pledged to take the tough decisions needed to avoid default but announced no new austerity measures to secure international bailout funds next month.
Oktoberfest 2011 runs from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3, the most important days being each of the three weekends. The festival opens when Munich Mayor Christian Ude taps the first keg at the Spaten tent,
The German and Swiss governments aim to sign a deal this week on taxing money stashed by German citizens in secret accounts in the Alpine state, according to a German government source.
Apple’s Dilemma of Introducing iPhone 5: Is it Samsung Galaxy S2 and Android OS?
Samsung on Friday filed a countersuit against Apple in Australia, where the sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet may be banned later this month.
ECB Governing Council member Jens Weidmann, an opponent of the bank's bond-buying program, told Germany's Spiegel magazine the ECB had burdened itself with considerable risk and it was wrong to abandon established principles of monetary policy.
The casual release of iPhone has taken a different turn as Apple failed to launch the much-awaited smartphone in June.
Simply suggesting that a treatment will ease chest pain may not only dampen the pain, but directly alter heart arteries, a small study concludes.
Oktoberfest festival is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. And this year the mayor of Munich Christian Ude has tapped the first keg to kick off the 178th traditional German folk festival.
EU officials sought to dispel fears about a bank lending freeze on Saturday, despite a stark warning from senior aides that a systemic crisis in sovereign debt now threatened a new credit crunch.
According to the journal Science, a total of 11 specimens of colored feathers of dinosaur dating back to late Cretaceous were found in ambers in Canada and the colors divide gradually from black to brown.
Major sports events like the Olympics and soccer World Cup should retain tight security to counter terrorist threats, but policing should be less visible and more flexible, a top international security expert said on Friday.
Heidi Jones is hardly the first TV weatherman (or weatherwoman) to run afoul of the law.
At a meeting with E.U. finance ministers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the case for a leveraged E.U. buyout fund ala the U.S.'s successful 2008 TALF, to help address Europe’s banking crisis, but the structure and size of any beefed-up intervention mechanism remained undetermined as of Friday night in Europe.
The cost to install solar power in the United States fell by 17 percent in 2010 and is on pace to drop even faster this year, according to a new report issued by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Speculation is growing in markets that Greece will be unable to avoid a full-blown default, despite two international bailouts and pledges of support from the eurozone's biggest economies.
