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Lucas Brody was just 10 years-old when he watched the Twin Towers fall to the ground one block from his New York home on September 11, 2001; Caitlin Langone was 12 when her police officer dad died that day trying to rescue people from the scene.

China is currently waging war on its unruly rare earths sector, with state inspection teams in the middle of a four-month campaign to crack down on illegal producers, processors and traders.

Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most famous conductor, will not take part in a music festival in China later this week, organizers said, with media reporting that he was in hospital in Tokyo for tests.

Here's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade.

A malfunctioning gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket's third stage engine has been identified by members of the emergency commission as the reason a supply ship didn't make it to the International Space Station, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov told the Itar-Tass on Monday.

Nuclear energy could find a second life on the moon and Mars.

More information on the new cast of the hit ABC show.

Air Transport Rating Agency releases top 10 list of world's safest airline carriers.

As the world gears up for 60 million tablets shipments, how will the contract manufacturers make money? Robots.

A star is [to be] born! After years of anticipation and months of speculation, Beyoncé confirmed her pregnancy at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards Sunday night. She and husband Jay-Z are expecting their first child in the spring.At the moment that Beyoncé rubbed her belly onstage, Twitter exploded with a record-breaking 8,868 Tweets Per Second (TPS). Previously, the white-knuckled last seconds of the U.S. Women's Soccer match against Japan held the record with 7,196 TPS. Beyoncé' baby b...

The English language Chinese daily Global Times newspaper described Noda as a “hawk.”

Japan finance minister Yoshihiko Noda on Tuesday was elected as the country’s sixth new prime minister in five years, even as the nation suffers from many economic problems and high debt levels.

Here's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade.

Euro zone economic sentiment fell more than expected in August, underlining prospects for slower economic growth and expectations that the European Central Bank may cut inflation forecasts and cease raising interest rates.

The features mentioned below are at the moment found in different high-end Android handsets that include, Google Nexus line smartphones, Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC EVO 3D, and HTC Sensation.

The United Nations on Monday urged greater preparedness and surveillance against a possible resurgence of bird flu, warning that the new mutant virus H5N1 - 2.3.2.1 might affect Asia the most.

Asian stocks rose on Tuesday and European shares looked set to extend gains as strong U.S. consumer spending data soothed some fears that the economy was slipping back into a recession.

Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, on Monday has halted production at one of its plants in Haryana after it dismissed some workers and asked all others to sign a good conduct bond, a company spokesman said.

The rupee should strengthen for a second day on Tuesday tracking regional sharemarkets that rose on the back of a slew of positive news across the euro zone and the United States.

Following the failure of an unmanned Russian Soyuz rocket last week, the International Space Station might have to be left without a crew if NASA's Russian partners can't find the cause of the malfunction and fix it soon.

The United States was a net exporter of solar energy products last year, thanks to strong demand from China, Germany and Japan for U.S.-made polysilicon and capital equipment used to make solar panels.