Following are highlight quotes from Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers meeting in Marseille.
Amazingly comprehensive fossils from 2 million years ago were newly discovered in South Africa, and according to new analysis, it makes the best candidate of ancestor of archaic and modern humans.
Europe knows it must do more to persuade financial markets it is coming to grips with its debt problems but there is no question it has the financial firepower to do so, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
European Central Bank board member Juergen Stark resigned Friday, three years before his term was scheduled to end.
More people chose to stick to the Weight Watchers diet, and lost more weight and fat mass, than those assigned to standard primary care, new research found.
Apple strikes another win against its rival Samsung after a German court banned the company from selling its new Galaxy Tab because it looked too much like Apple's iPad.
The global car industry descends on Frankfurt next week to show off the latest models it hopes will fend off an economic slowdown in some of its biggest markets, as government spending cuts chip away at consumer confidence in Europe.
Apple has gotten a German court to bar Samsung Electronics from sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 over design-infringement claims.
Motorola's highly anticipated offering, the Droid Bionic, after playing hide-and-seek for nine months has finally arrived.
Investors in Greek government debt worldwide will tell regulators on Friday whether and how they will participate in a bond swap aimed at giving Athens more time to emerge from a debt crisis, with officials expecting a take-up of about 70 percent.
A German court on Friday upheld an injunction requested by Apple barring the sales of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Germany.
From Seoul to Washington, policymakers are increasingly worried about the outlook for the global economy.
In the first randomized controlled study of Weight Watchers participants, family doctors compared the commercial weight-loss program with standard care, and found that Weight Watchers was more than twice as effective.
The European Central Bank signaled on Thursday that it had halted a cycle of interest rate rises begun just five months ago, saying euro zone inflation risks were no longer skewed to the upside and economic growth would be slow at best.
Growing numbers of China's rich want to avoid publicizing their wealth, Forbes said, reflecting fears of official scrutiny amid a vast and growing rich-poor divide after several billionaires have ended up in jail.
Recently discovered fossil bones track human ancestry back to a creature with human-like hands and ape-like feet that roamed Africa two million years ago, according to scientists who made the discovery.
Following are comments by European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet at a news conference held after the bank's Governing Council left its benchmark interest rate at 1.5 percent on Thursday.
Doctors are paid more in the United States than in any other country, a new study has revealed.
Droid Bionic may not be able to enjoy its hallowed title of the most powerful phone on Verizon LTE network for long as rumors of some strong 4G LTE contenders have been doing rounds lately.
The heated patent war between Apple and Samsung has found a new battlefield: Japan.
Google, moving into the smartphone battles, has allied with Taiwan’s HTC in battling Apple over alleged patent infringement.
Candles flickered beside mounds of red carnations at the stadium of one of Russia's top ice hockey teams on Thursday after almost the entire team was wiped out in a plane crash that killed 43 people.
