JOE BIDEN

As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden built trust with China in Beijing's corridors of power, goodwill between the two nations unravelled Thursday night on a nearby basketball court, where players traded kicks and punches and even a chair was thrown.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in China on a five-day charm mission, has worked hard with his hosts to inject a little amity into the sometimes fractious relationship, pulling punches but not his punch lines.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday said China had nothing to worry about concerning the safety of its vast holdings of Treasury debt, while China's Premier Wen Jiabao gave a ringing endorsement of the resilience of the debt-ridden U.S. economy.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Friday China had nothing to worry about concerning the safety of its vast holdings of Treasury debt, while China's Premier Wen Jiabao gave a ringing endorsement of the resilience of the debt-ridden U.S. economy.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Friday gave a ringing endorsement of the resilience of the debt-ridden American economy during a second day of talks with his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a sharply weaker open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, a day after the Nasdaq <.IXIC> ended more than 5 percent lower and the S&P 500 <.SPX> slipped 4.5 percent on rising recession fears.

Stock index futures pointed to a sharply weaker open for equities on Wall Street on Friday, a day after the Nasdaq ended more than 5 percent lower and the S&P 500 slipped 4.5 percent on rising recession fears.

China and the United States have a responsibility to strengthen macro-economic policy coordination and together boost market confidence, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday, according to Chinese state media.

The Georgetown basketball team got in a brawl with a professional Chinese basketball team.

Former Delaware Senate candidate and Tea Party member Christine O'Donnell stormed off the set of the "Piers Morgan Tonight Show" Wednesday, upset over questions about gay marriage. She called Morgan "rude."

A former Chinese official's manifesto for a new burst of reform mixing Mao, markets and guarded political relaxation has opened a rare window into ideas shaping the country's next generation of princeling leaders.

Global economic health rests on the United States and China finding common ground, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told China's leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, in talks aimed at shoring up faith in the dollar.

Global economic stability rests on the United States and China working together, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told top Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing Thursday.

Joe Biden has much on his agenda when during his visit to China this week.

Vice President Joe Biden began his six-day state visit to China, where he is expected to talk to leaders about a number of U.S.-Sino issues, including debt and Taiwan.

As Biden arrives in Beijing, China warns the United States must shoulder its responsibilities and take steps to soothe China's concerns over the security of its U.S. government debt holdings.

China should rest easy that its investments in the dollar remain safe, the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Beijing, Gary Locke, said on Sunday, adding that the world's two biggest economies could find common ground despite economic and political strains.

Having said no to taxes for months, Republicans now are saying maybe, in the face of public disgust over a deadlock in the Congress, a near government default and a worsening global economic crisis.

Obama desperately needs to re-energize his flagging re-election hopes.

What can Obama do to reinvigorate his 2012 campaign?

Israel's interior minister has given final approval for a plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a project whose announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden caused a diplomatic rift with Washington.