Riot police fought running clashes with Occupy Oakland protesters on Saturday, arresting more than 200 people and firing tear gas in scuffles that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator in the California city.
The Art Institute of Chicago has received a grant of $500,000 from the Government of India as part of a new professional exchange program between the museum and the country.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India is set to swell in coming years as investors stomach a lack of transparency, poor infrastructure, and policy paralysis in their search for growth, professional-services firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) said in a report.
European companies owed oil by Iran could lose out should Tehran impose a ban on crude exports to the European Union next week, the head of Iran's state oil company said Saturday. Iran's parliament is due to debate a bill Sunday that would cut off oil supplies to the EU in a matter of days.
The United Steelworkers union warned on Saturday that a strike by U.S. refinery workers as early as 12 a.m. Wednesday was becoming more likely due to the lack of a more substantive response from the industry.
A new team of U.S. trade enforcers will make countries think twice about building unfair barriers to American exports, said President Barack Obama's top trade official, who noted the team will include intelligence officials as well as representatives of multiple agencies.
The United Steelworkers union warned on Saturday that a strike by U.S. refinery workers as early as 12 a.m. Wednesday was becoming more likely due to the lack of a more substantive response from the industry.
Canada's Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp. said it would not go ahead with its planned $83 million purchase of a minority stake in U.S.-based wind-farm operator First Wind Holdings, citing regulatory delays in Maine.
White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich in Florida to 11 percentage points on Saturday from 8 points a day earlier, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results, as he cemented his front-runner status in the Republican nomination race.
California approved aggressive new rules on Friday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring automakers to put many more electric and hybrid vehicles on the Golden State's roads by 2025.
Mitt Romney's most recent attack ad slams New Gingrich were it hurts a history professor most--right in his history. It's titled simply History Lesson, and features a long, single clip of famed NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw, as he reported on the then-speaker's ethics violations in 1997. The clips served up a straight news report in which Brokaw says, Newt Gingrich--who came to power, after all, preaching a higher standard in American politics, a man who brought down another speaker...
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Six weeks after Ayla Reynolds went missing, blood has been found in the Waterville, Maine home where the toddler was last seen.
Exxon Mobil plans to sell a large part of its 50 percent stake in TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK <5012.T> back to its Japanese refining partner in a deal that could be worth about 300 billion yen ($3.9 billion), and will make an announcement as early as Monday, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Russia plans to delay the next mission carrying U.S. and Russian astronauts to the International Space Station by several weeks due to problems with the spaceship's descent vehicle, Interfax news agency quoted an industry source as saying Friday.
When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help.
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde led a global push on Saturday for the euro zone to boost its financial firewall, saying if it is big enough it will not get used.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 smartphone is the Korean manufacturer's new flagship device, and the Nokia Lumia 900 is Nokia's real first attempt at a smartphone in the U.S. That's no knock against the Nokia Lumia 710 on T-Mobile, but it doesn't compete against the iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S2 and now S3.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has again raised speculation that senior Pakistani government officials were well aware that al-Qaida chieftain Osama bin Laden was residing in the country for years.
Budding bankers expecting the bumper bonuses of years gone by will have to think again, with only the top performers likely to be paid top dollar.
PACs and super PACs can now join forces under an umbrella organization, allowing them to donate directly to political candidates while also spending unlimited sums to promote or oppose candidates of their choice.
