The Federal Reserve could take the historic step this week of announcing an explicit target for inflation, a move that would fulfill a multi-year quest of the central bank's chairman, Ben Bernanke.
Chinese New Year 2012 begins Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, and will usher in the Year of the Dragon. Here is a look at the meaning behind the Dragon and some predictions for 2012.
Swiss police will charge more than 100 demonstrators with breaching the peace after they rallied in Bern Saturday to protest against the World Economic Forum (WEF), which holds its annual meeting in Davos this week.
Iraq risks sliding back toward authoritarian rule with Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's security forces cracking down on protests, harassing opponents, and torturing detainees, a U.S.-based human-rights monitor said on Sunday.
After global protests on Wednesday which saw darkened Websites like Wikipedia and BoingBoing and a “virtual” strike by Google, on Friday SOPA, a creature of the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the Senate, were essentially smothered.
The United States has not decided whether to satisfy a request from the Taliban to release five prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday.
After Megaupload, one of the world's leading file-sharing Web sites, was shut down by the U.S. government, its founder Kim Dotcom and three associates were also arrested and charged with several felonies, including racketeering, money laundering, copyright infringement and more. If convicted , they could face up to 50 years in prison.
After a bruising clash in South Carolina, Republican presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich will take their battle to a bigger stage when the campaign moves to Florida on Sunday. The Palmetto State's primary-election results indicate their fight may last quite a few more rounds.
Appearance Vs. Reality: The recent death of a senior al-Qaida leader as the result of a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan's tribal badlands -- the first such strike in almost two months -- signaled that the U.S.-Pakistan intelligence partnership is still in operation despite political tensions.
As natural-gas prices plunge to their lowest level in a decade, Venezuela plans to tap one of Latin America's biggest gas fields as it seeks to boost power generation and even help revive stagnant oil production.
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The offer of a 30 percent discount on future cruises, made by the owners of the recently shipwrecked Costa Concordia (Costa Cruises), has been faced with a number of angry responses from passengers of the ill-fated luxury liner.
While millions of Apple users are occupied with the recently released Absinthe untethered jailbreak for A5-powered devices, intense discussions on the features and success of Apple's next generation iPhone 5 have gained momentum.
Two guns, which reportedly belonged to deadly outlaws Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow, fetched a staggering $210000 at a Kansas auction Saturday.
Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Investor, spent his 38th birthday on Saturday in a New Zealand jail after 70 police personnel raided his country estate at the request of the U.S. FBI, which alleges Dotcom masterminded a criminal -- and highly profitable -- copyright-infringement operation.
Gingrich may have won the South Carolina primary but his liabilities in politics are so great that he will never be President, even in the unlikely event he wins the Republican nomination.
SOPA and PIPA, two bills that caused bedlam in the online world last week, are dead. But for how long?
Newt Gingrich won a stunning victory in the South Carolina primary.
Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina GOP Presidential primary, beating rival Mitt Romney, according to reports.
France Telecom will not match the low-cost mobile offers recently launched by new operator Iliad because such aggressive pricing would be bad for network quality and innovation in the long-run, said its chief executive.
When Walt Disney Co. shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative of his trust will be on the ballot, even though the trust is the media company's largest shareholder.
When Disney shareholders vote to re-elect directors at its annual meeting in March, neither Steve Jobs' wife nor a representative from his trust will be present on the ballot, even though it is the media company's largest shareholder.
