At a time when the U.K. is in a recession, what will the Olympics mean for the country's sagging economy? Will the event worsen the ongoing recession or help initiate economic recovery?
Sony reported far greater losses than the struggling company initially expected in its latest quarterly report. Still mired in the process of restructuring the company, how will Kazuo Hirai still carry through his vision for "One Sony?"
Crack addiction has become a grave public health and security concern in parts of Brazil, particularly the poverty-stricken shanty-towns that ring the large cities.
While earlier reports suggested that the Cupertino tech giant might be switching to a smaller port with 19 pins from the traditional 30-pin dock connector, a latest report Wednesday suggested that Apple could shrink its connector dock even further to just eight pins and that it could also receive a new name altogether.
Asian shares eased Thursday as investors turned increasingly cautious with hopes of stimulus action by central banks fading ahead of a European Central Bank's meeting later in the day and after the U.S. Federal Reserve took no action a day earlier.
Ricky Berens shocked many by announcing his retirement from swimming right after winning the gold medal in the men?s 800 meter freestyle relay.
The U.S. Postal Service went broke on Wednesday, for the first time defaulting on a payment due to the U.S. Treasury to finance postal pensioners' future health care costs.
Investors are abandoning equity stocks amid the global economic slowdown and falling corporate revenues during the second quarter, according to multiple reports.
Zynga is planning a dramatic internal restructuring following last week's poor financial performance that includes stripping the current COO of his product oversight responsibilities, according to sources within the company. But will this actually help the company recoup some of its losses?
On this episode of "Teen Mom" Maci goes house shopping, Farrah gets serious about her relationship, Amber tries to keep her anger in check and Catelynn deals with the fallout from her mom and Butch's relationship.
The financial situation in Iraq, one of the world's largest reservoirs of crude oil, has become grave.
Disclosure of another lavish party thrown by the U.S. government's buildings and procurement agency prompted fresh attacks on Thursday from Republican lawmakers on wasteful Washington spending under President Barack Obama.
Rail transport was paralyzed, hospitals had to rush to use back-up generators, roads became clogged with traffic jams, and water supplies were disrupted, among a multitude of other breakdowns.
Microsoft's Outlook.com, the successor to Hotmail, is just a few hours old, but the new metro style email service has already got more than one million people signing up for it, according to official figures tweeted just over six hours after it was announced Tuesday.
General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) is expected to report profits down 51.7 percent for the second quarter of 2012 as the company continues to slog through an uphill battle to restructure its loss-making European Opel-Vauxhall unit and to sell through high levels of North American inventory.
Normal life was thrown out of gear when a power outage resulted in a blackout in 20 states across north, eastern and north-eastern India affecting more than 600 million people for two consecutive days and severely disrupting essential services including the water supply, industrial power supply, rail and road traffic management and medical care.
PokerStars, the largest online poker card room in the world, has agreed to a $731 million settlement in their money-laundering case with the U.S. Department of Justice. The settlement reportedly includes reimbursement for some customers whose funds were frozen when the company was seized and shut down by the U.S. Attorney's Office in 2011.
Japan's Ministry of Defense warns about the growing influence of the Chinese military on Beijing's regional diplomacy.
Some of the results for specific councils are quite shocking,? said Judy Aldred, managing director of SSentif.
In a lawsuit filed late last week in New York court, New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) accused the ratings giant of manipulating viewership statistics in favor of broadcasters that offered money to ratings officials.
Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand ? an area that stretches across 1,400 miles ? have been affected by the power cut.
Power outage hit Indian capital New Delhi for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, just as the city was recovering from a blackout following the collapse of the northern power grid Monday.
