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China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has arrived in Zimbabwe to start a five-nation tour of Africa, amidst reports the two nations have signed a $10-billion trade deal.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday the Islamic Revolution in 1979 has become a 'global movement' in the Middle East referring to Egypt protests.

U.S. stocks opened lower on Friday as data showed the U.S trade deficit widened in December, and jitters over Egypt continued.

The U.S. trade deficit widened in December to its highest level in four months, the U.S. government said on Friday in a report that also showed the annual trade gap expanded nearly 33 percent in 2010 as imports from China hit record levels.

U.S. stocks fell on Friday as market uncertainty over Egypt grew amid risks of spreading unrest in the Middle East.

Arizona governor Gov. Jan Brewer is suing the U.S. Federal Government, saying it has failed to protect the state's citizens from the hazards of illegal immigration.

U.S. stocks fell at the open on Friday as market uncertainty over Egypt grew amid risks of spreading unrest in the Middle East.

President Barack Obama said late Thursday it was not yet clear how Egypt's government is moving to transfer authority, on the same day when Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would be handing some of his powers to his vice president but would remain in office until September's elections.

The US trade deficit of goods and services rose to $40.6 billion in December compared with a deficit of $38.3 billion in November, the commerce department said on Friday.

Two and a half years after tragedy hit Jennifer Hudson's family, the singer sat down with Oprah Winfrey to speak out about the murders of her mother, brother and nephew.

The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Shengkai Innovations, Orthovita, Falconstor Software, Panera Bread, and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Expedia, MannKind, Blue Nile, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, and Cephalon.

Humans were able to store at least 295 exabytes of information as of 2007, says a new study that estimated the world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute. In decimal terms, an exabyte is equal to a billion gigabytes.

Gold prices eased a touch on Friday, pressured by gains in the dollar and softer investment demand for the metal after a raft of well-received economic data boosted interest in other assets.

For the first time, Google Inc. is celebrating American inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 164th birthday on February 11 with a new still moving doodle logo on its classic homepage featuring some of his best inventions.

The Obama administration on Friday will unveil long-awaited proposals for what could lead to the most sweeping changes to the way Americans buy their homes in decades.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday as uncertainty gripped markets following Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's refusal to step down after more than two weeks of civil protests throughout the country.

U.S. stock index futures fell on Friday as uncertainty gripped markets following Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's refusal to step down after more than two weeks of civil protests throughout the country.

A recession is the decline of a nation's gross domestic product (GDP) over two or more consecutive quarters. It is also referred to as a period of economic decline and reduced economic activity. During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way. GDP, employment, investment spending, capacity utilization, household incomes; business profits and inflation all fall, while bankruptcies and the unemployment rate rise. Here is a list of recessions that occurred since the Great ...

Researchers at NASA have drawn up a plan to make the greatest adventure in the history of the human race possible - sending a human mission to the red planet and, hold your breath, colonize it! And the daring act of selling and carving up the red planet will be made possible with the help of corporate bigwigs who will paint the space ships in their logo colors.

It is official. Nokia will be adopting Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its new smartphone operating system (OS), a move that could be the beginning of a new era for the Finnish mobile giant.

Wall Street is set for a weaker open on Friday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures down 0.4 percent to 0.6 percent at 1117 GMT.