After Pennsylvania case, Google again stumbles over another privacy issue as it’s Street View cameras captured the image of a Japanese woman’s underwear, said a report in Mainichi Daily.
FIFPro, the International Players' union, has supported calls to play the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar during winter instead of summer.
Investors are entering 2011 in a relatively bullish mood, raising equity holdings to a 10-month high, increasing exposure to high-yield credit and cutting back on government debt, Reuters polls showed on Wednesday.
US diplomats in Washington once dubbed North's Korea's military drills as 'fish-killing' activities. Yet the South, backed by the Obama administration, has been continuously holding live-fire drills in the disputed zone of the Korean Peninsula. With a continual military activity, the coming months could only witness a deteriorating situation in the peninsula, unless both sides are pressured to engage in a dialogue.
After a San Francisco Bay Area resident became the first in the United States to receive the delivery of all electric Leaf, Nissan Motors on Wednesday carried out its first Leaf delivery in the Tennessee region.
Contrary to the prevailing view, the U.S. economy will gain growth momentum in the year ahead, while GDP will grow stronger in Europe and Japan, research firm IHS Global Insight has said in its forecast for 2011.
Toyota Motor Corp on Tuesday said that it expects to sell 7.7 million vehicles worldwide next year, up 3 percent from 2010, by tapping emerging markets Asian markets, such as China and India.
Nissan Motors on Wednesday delivered the first 10 units of its 100 per cent electric and zero-emission Nissan LEAF in Japan.
Japan's economic recovery seems to be pausing, though there are signs of a moderate recovery, the Bank of Japan said in a statement on Wednesday.
Stock index futures were flat on Wednesday after fours days of gains drove the S&P 500 to new highs, leaving the index near levels reached just before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt two years ago.
Stock futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 all fell 0.1 percent, pointing to a slightly weaker start for equities on Wall Street on Wednesday.
Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) shares are surging 15.62 percent in mid-day trading after it signed an agreement with Hitachi Metls Ltd. of Japan that may lead to the production of rare earth magnets in the U.S. sometime next year.
There are now 308.7 million people in the United States, or 308,745,538 persons to be more exact as of April 1, 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released the 2010 Census data today.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) continued to keep interest rates steady between zero and 0.1 percent as the economic recovery seems to be faltering in Japan and the yen grows weaker against the U.S. dollar.
Gold prices will keep rising over the next two years to hit $1,600 per ounce by the end of 2011 and $2,000 by end of 2012, as fresh shocks to the global financial system are expected, an analyst has said.
China has assured the European Union its rare earths shipments to the bloc will not be disrupted, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in Beijing on Tuesday.
Adobe Systems Inc issued an earnings forecast sharply above Wall Street projections, contrasting sharply from a pessimistic outlook three months ago when it was concerned about the weak economy.
Adobe Systems Inc issued an earnings forecast sharply above Wall Street projections, contrasting sharply from a pessimistic outlook three months ago when it was concerned about the weak economy.
The euro pared gains on Tuesday after Moody's put Portugal on review for a possible downgrade, while world stocks rose, driven by bargain-hunting investors betting on stronger global growth next year.
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy on hold on Tuesday but warned of weakening factory output and business sentiment, assuring markets that it was focusing on downside risks to growth that may trigger further easing ahead.
The Bank of Japan kept monetary policy steady as widely expected on Tuesday, holding off on easing as it scrutinizes how escalating debt woes in Europe and a U.S.-driven rise in bond yields affect Japan's fragile economy.
Japan's Nikkei share index <.N225> rises 0.7 percent as investors pick up bargains after recent price falls, but volume is low on absence of foreign buyers.
