INDIA

The world's cheapest computer -- the $35 tablet -- has finally been launched in India, designed to bring the nation's poor into the computer and Internet age. The computer, a tablet known commercially as the Ubislate, is being hailed by government officials in India as a valuable educational tool and a major accomplishment for the country's fast-growing tech industry.

He will likely best be remembered for his heroics as a batsman in the 1981 Ashes

Representatives of the Dalai Lama, who is based in northern India, began the visa application process in June.

India launched what it dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 and later in shops for about $60.

Turkey’s military coincidentally plans to conduct a routine exercise near the Syrian border through next week.

Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have become increasingly frayed.

Private sector business activity shrank in the euro zone for the first time in two years last month as new orders dried up, stoking fears that the economy could be heading back into recession, surveys showed on Wednesday.

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn't stop military crackdown against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

India unwraps what has been dubbed the world's cheapest tablet computer on Wednesday, to be sold to students at the subsidized price of $35 to expand digital access in the Asian giant that lags peers such as China and Brazil in connectivity.

Asian smartphone makers have a chance to exploit a rare letdown from pacesetter Apple Inc. after the new iPhone 4S failed to wow fans and investors, leaving Android rivals better placed to grab market share.

A local ordinance that requires warnings about cell phone safety risks should be blocked from taking effect, an industry group argued in a U.S. court filing on Tuesday.

State Bank Of India does not expect overseas borrowing costs to rise significantly but sees medium-term note borrowing costs rising 1-2 basis points, its chairman said on Wednesday, a day after Moody's cut its rating and sent its shares skidding.

The Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has now become something of a Mecca for marine scientists, particularly those who study sharks. On Tuesday, the island nation passed a bill creating the world's largest sanctuary for sharks.

A local ordinance that requires warnings about cell phone safety risks should be blocked from taking effect, an industry group argued in a U.S. court filing on Tuesday.

KFC parent Yum Brands Inc posted a quarterly profit that failed to assuage investor worries about slowing growth in China, its biggest market.

KFC parent Yum Brands Inc posted a quarterly profit that failed to assuage investors worries about slowing growth in China, its most important market.

Three monks have tried to burn themselves to death in the past week – a total of five have done so over the past six months.

The Dalai Lama was blocked from visiting South Africa two years ago as well.

Global subsidies for fossil fuel consumption are set to reach $660 billion in 2020 unless reforms are passed to effectively eliminate this form of state aid, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

Here is yet another good news for tech geeks who are upbeat about Apple Inc's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy Tab.

Cornell University scientists in New York have just completed a social behavior study focusing on Twitter. Published in the journal Science, the research was based on a two-year period of observations recording 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users. Scientists gathered participants from 84 different countries to determine whether there were any trends or correlations to people's moods across regions.