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Today, June 21, is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and obviously, it also marks the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Jon Huntsman officially announced his presidential bid today, charging that the country's current course will hobble future generations.

Korean Air announced Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, to buy Bombardier's C series aircraft, the value of the order is valued at US$616-million based on list price, but could swell upto US$1-billion if all the orders comes to a definitive.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Tower Bancorp, SunPower, Rex Energy, Logitech International, Zalicus, Baidu, and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Susquehanna Bancshares, Prospect Capital, Express Scripts, and Sify Technologies.

Here is an interesting fact about the Summer Solstice. The longest day of the year is not normally the warmest.

China's National Meteorological Center on Tuesday forecast more rainfall in flood-hit areas of central and southern China after millions of people were forced to evacuate their homes.

Today, June 21, is the longest day of the year in the northern Hemisphere and it also marks the official beginning of the summer season.

TOP500 released the latest list of top ten most powerful, high-performance computers in the world at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Vitacost.com, Gulf Resources, Vical, Clearwire, Copano Energy, and Apple. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Prospect Capital, Leap Wireless International, Iridium Communications, Impax Laboratories, and Adobe Systems.

Huwai just introduced the first Android 3.2 tablet—the 7-inch MediaPad, in Singapore with CommunicAsia being the launchpad for the device.

Rainfall expected to boost China's agricultural production have instead caused widespread flooding, increased food prices and caused death in the East and South of the People's Republic.

A 7-inch Android-based tablet PC, the MediaPad was unveiled by China Huawei technologies in Singapore on Monday.

After being world famous for making clones of gadgets and garments, the Chinese are doing it again, in a new style this time. They are making a copy of a whole village situated in Alphine!

Virgin Australia Ltd. said that it will suspend flights in and out of the southern city of Adelaide on Tuesday as dust from a Chilean volcano returns to Australian airspace.

A supercomputer made by Japan tops the latest ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, pushing China to the second place.

A technical failure in a NATO missile may have caused a number of civilian casualties in Tripoli, a spokesman said on Sunday.

The marines who mistakenly thought an Airbus passenger plane was a North Korean fighter jet and opened fired will not be punished, officials said on Sunday.

Torrential rain across south eastern China has displaced or otherwise affected over 5 million people, killing scores and threatening global commodity prices.

Social networking site Facebook lost a significant number of its users in the US in May, raising fears over the site’s user base reaching saturation levels in the country.

US Department of Energy will offer a conditional guarantee as part of a $150 million loan to 1366 Technologies Inc for the development of a multicrystalline wafer manufacturing project.

New satellite pictures show skyscrapers townships completely empty in China that have been completely abandoned after construction.