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The Japanese yen hit the lowest level against the U.S. dollar in the last 30 months Monday amid reports that policymakers in Japan were under pressure to further loosen the monetary policy to revive the economy.

IBM may have won the most patents in 2012, but U.S. companies are losing the innovation war to Asia.

Asian stock markets mostly ended lower last week as sentiment was weighed down by the report that China’s inflation rate accelerated to a seven-month high in December, denting hopes of further stimulus measures to boost the ongoing recovery in the world’s second largest economy.

Action film superstar Jackie Chan may have made millions of dollars at the U.S. box office, but this doesn’t mean he has to like the country that helped make him an international name. In an interview on a Hong Kong television show, Chan expressed some pretty baffling anti-Americanism, calling the U.S. “the most corrupt [country] in the world.”

As massive train-building schemes take shape across the globe, a different mode of transportation is booming in the United States: intercity buses.

Asian markets fell as investor confidence was weighed down by the report that inflationary pressures continued to increase in China

Market participants this week will begin to close the books on 2012 and get their first glimpse of global economic activity in 2013.

A rumored anti-satellite missile test in China this month could threaten several US satellites in orbit.

The FCC's plans to unleash Wi-Fi spectrum, plus the $5 billion tussle for Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), show spectrum is valuable.

Asian stock markets mostly declined Friday after data showed that Chinese inflation jumped to a seven-month high in December while Japanese Nikkei surged on weaker yen.

Asian shares rose Friday amid an improving outlook for global economies and reduced anxiety over the euro zone, while the yen slid on renewed expectations for aggressive monetary easing in Japan.

An era of untreatable gonorrhea may be approaching, public health officials warn.

No surprise: International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) received 6,478 patents in 2012, continuing its 20-year domination of the field.

Asian shares rose Thursday as Chinese trade data, much stronger than expected, magnified momentum overnight from global markets and kept alive hopes for a recovery in the world's second-largest economy.

A surprise bid for Clearwire (NASDAQ:CLWR) by Dish Networks (NASDAQ:DISH) could upset plans by Sprint-Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) to buy it.

Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda have seen sales plummet in China over geopolitics but hope the worst is over.

Scientists were able to manipulate cyanobacteria to make a chemical that can be converted into fuels and plastics.

The brutal gang-rape of a young medical student in India has attracted global attention to the epidemic of sexual assaults.

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of northern Japan on Tuesday.

Japan’s newly elected government headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador, for the time since its inauguration, to protest against the presence of Chinese vessels in waters near a disputed set of islands in the East China Sea.

For the first time in human history a giant squid has been seen alive in its natural habitat, recorded on camera by a group of Japanese scientists working with a film crew from the Discovery Channel.