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Fast food chain McDonald's has signed up to sponsor the Olympics for a further eight years, meaning athletes and fans will be offered its burgers and fries in the official restaurants at Games venues until 2020.

The union said it will next target Adidas and Puma.

North Korea leadership is trying to rally the country around its new, inexperienced leader Kim Jong-un. In true North Korean fashion, that means turning the propaganda machine to full steam.

Here is an overview of Mitt Romney's economic plan, including his proposals for job creation, tax reform, entitlement reform and health care reform.

South Korean President Lee Myung Bak will ask China's leaders this week to use their influence to lean on North Korea to show restraint amid a delicate transition to a new leadership.

The Asian political canvas looks challenging in 2012, with government changes in key countries likely to surprise investors and businesses. The highlights are a once-in-a-decade leadership change in China, chances of an early general election in India, worsening uncertainty in Pakistani politics and general elections in South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia.

The next generation iPads and iPhones are expected to feature powerful quad-core processors, according to a recent report that claimed finding references in the latest iOS 5.1 beta.

Tourism in North Korea is restricted and controlled by the government. Tourists often visit the country in guided tours with strict supervision from Korean authorities.

Text-messaging has long been a big-time profit generator for U.S. mobile operators, but they now risk losing these profits as consumers find cheaper ways to communicate.

South Korea is well known to have a nearly completely plugged-in society, but are they the most connected country in the world? As a percentage of the population, they are actually 15th. Every year, a Web site called Internet World Stats compiles the numbers of users across the globe and breaks them out into region, country and other demographics.

South Korea said on Wednesday it had approved a plan by Samsung Electronics Co to build a flash memory chip plant in China seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers fuels the chip industry's growth.

Greece, deeply mired in its own financial crisis, has been highly dependent on Iranian oil because Teheran has offered debt-ridden nations attractive credit terms.

For the 20th consecutive year, Intel was the world’s biggest chipmaker, with a commanding lead over No. 2 rival, Samsung Electronics, market research firm Gartner estimated.

Saying the Korean peninsula was at a turning point, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Monday urged North Korea to embrace a new era by using its new change of government head to transform Korean ties.

Hyundai and affiliate Kia aim to boost global vehicle sales by 6 percent this year to a combined 7 million vehicles, which would mark a slowdown for a duo that has enjoyed double-digit sales rises in recent years.

South Korea has taken a major step to ending an eight-year-old ban on imports of Canadian beef, Canada's agriculture and trade ministers said on Friday.

North Korea called on its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong Un and protect him as human shields while working to solve the burning issue of food shortages by adhering to the policies of his late father, Kim Jong Il.

With the proliferation of cheap and fast video streaming, passionate fans, and eager corporate sponsors, electronic sports may be poised to become a standard ingredient in the global entertainment mix -- although the budding industry still faces a few challenges.

Reflecting the isolated nation's extreme paranoia about the outside world, North Korea is virtually an armed camp.

India’s relationship with North Korea seems rather strange -- however, from a purely geo-political strategic basis, perhaps it makes sense.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said Friday that former France captain Thierry Henry will sign for the team in a two-month loan deal once an insurance agreement is reached with the New York Red Bulls, the Major League Soccer club Henry currently plays for, according to reports.