Sreeja VN

Two monthly surveys point to increased industrial activity in the world's second-largest economy, though one failed to meet its forecast.

Feb 01, 2013

India’s manufacturing sector expanded at a slower rate to a three month low in January, as volume of new export orders eased from the previous month.

Feb 01, 2013

Online Resources Corporation, JDS Uniphase Corp, Ericsson, and Nokia Corporation are among Thursday's pre-market movers.

Jan 31, 2013

Japan's manufacturing activity slowed in January, but it did so at the slowest pace in four months as a weaker yen helped exports.

Jan 31, 2013

An unidentified man was holding a young boy hostage in Alabama Wednesday morning, 13 hours after abducting him from a school bus.

Jan 30, 2013

Japan’s retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.4 percent in December in comparison to the same period last year, but lower than the 1.3 percent growth cloaked in November.

Jan 30, 2013

South Korea’s industrial production rose 1.0 percent in December from 2.6 percent in the previous month.

Jan 30, 2013

Borneo wildlife officials have found 10 dead endangered elephants with their tusks intact and no gunshot wounds.

Jan 29, 2013

A domestic passenger plane crashed in bad weather near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty Tuesday, killing 22 people.

Jan 29, 2013

Asia's third-largest economy cut key interest rates as it tries to strike a balance between inflation and lending.

Jan 29, 2013

Sony Corporation, ASML Holding, Staples Inc, Transocean, Century Aluminum, LRR Energy, Cellcom Israel Ltd and NICE Systems are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Monday

Jan 28, 2013

Board says one of the six accused sex predators and killers in the infamous Delhi gang-rape case is a minor.

Jan 28, 2013

It only took four days for Twitter’s new video sharing application, Vine, to become a porn-sharing application.

Jan 28, 2013

North Korea ramped up its warlike bluster over U.N. sanctions Sunday, threatening strong retaliation, state media reported.

Jan 27, 2013

Dozens of hikers trapped by high water from heavy rains in an Arizona canyon were rescued Saturday, authorities said.

Jan 27, 2013

A fire allegedly triggered by a pyrotechnics show in a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria has killed at least 200 people, Sunday, local media reported.

Jan 27, 2013

Socketeq has come with a solution that can fully port Android on a Windows kernel natively, enabling the user to enjoy Android without having to go through the dual-booting or virtualization.

Jan 27, 2013

Thousands of people participated in a rally, holding signs and banners against gun violence and supporting President Obama’s gun control plan Saturday.

Jan 27, 2013

Tempur-Pedic International Inc, ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc, STMicroelectronics N.V., Silicon Graphics International, Select Comfort Corp, BG Medicine Inc, Molycorp Inc, Nokia Corporation are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Friday.

Jan 25, 2013

North Korea issued another warning Friday, this time to South Korea against participating in the U.N. sanctions. This follows warnings to the U.S. that it will go ahead with high level nuclear and missile tests after the U.N. expanded the sanctions over a rocket launch last month.

Jan 25, 2013

U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Friday ahead of the Census Bureau's new home sales data. Asian Markets traded in the red, while European shares traded higher.

Jan 25, 2013

Spain’s unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2012 jumped to a record high of 26 percent, data released by the National Statistics Institute showed Thursday.

Jan 24, 2013

A 93-year old Kansas City man allegedly stabbed his 95-year-old wife to death before attempting suicide Wednesday, police said.

Jan 24, 2013

Robert Pimentel has been charged with eight counts of continuous sexual abuse and seven counts of lewd acts.

Jan 24, 2013

The Justice JS Verma committee, set up to propose amendments to existing Indian laws relating to crime against women.

Jan 23, 2013

The British prime minister said he would hold a referendum on leaving the EU if his party wins in 2015.

Jan 23, 2013

A Pennsylvania ex-pastor convicted for murdering his second wife in 2008 now faces trial on whether he killed his first wife too.

Jan 23, 2013

A Chinese military officer warned Australia not to side with the U.S. and Japan if the East China Sea conflict leads to war.

Jan 22, 2013

Israelis began voting Tuesday in the parliamentary elections that is widely expected to give a third term to the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Jan 22, 2013