The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Thursday were: Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Spreadtrum Communications, Sierra Wireless, PowerSecure International and Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. The top after-market NASDAQ losers were: Body Central Corp., Anika Therapeutics, QLogic Corporation, Caribou Coffee Company and Pacific Biosciences of California.
Depressed theater sales in the U.S. and bullish predictions about China's growing film market are driving big Hollywood directors and major studios to look across the Pacific for growth opportunities.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday said Rick Santorum and Sen. Marco Rubio are Republicans' top picks to be Mitt Romney's vice president.
A senior U.N. official expressed concern over the declining health of two Palestinian prisoners in Israel, who have been on a hunger strike for over two months and are in critical condition.
After The National Enquirer broke the story of presidential candidate John Edward's affair with Rielle Hunter, Edwards and his aides worried when Hunter appeared reluctant to deny the affair in court. Apparently, she offered to testify that she was abducted by aliens instead.
Mitt Romney assailed the Obama administration for its handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's attempted defection, building on his stance that Obama has not pressed China enough on human rights abuses.
Ernst & Young projects that by 2015, money flowing to Africa will reach $150 billion, which will create 350,000 new jobs annually.
The governor, rejecting the idea that carrying firearms in that environment poses any real danger, insisted that guns are most precious in instances of civil unrest or protests.
Ron Paul 2012's delegate strategy keeps gaining steam, with the latest boost being a report that a prominent Iowa supporter of Mitt Romney is predicting that the underdog candidate will get 20 delegates in the Hawkeye State.
The part-nationalized bank is expected to make the announcement on Friday during its first-quarter update, where it will also announce pre-tax losses of under £50 million, down from losses of £106 million this time last year.
A girl named Julia has found herself in the middle of so-called War on Women between Democrats in Republicans.
A torrent of third-party spending has produced a drastic spike in the amount of negative advertising during the 2012 election cycle, a new study finds.
The IAEA has already demanded access to Iran?s atomic sites as long ago as November when it released a report detailing its suspicions that the Iranians were planning to develop nuclear bombs.
Temasek Holdings, the Singapore state-owned investment group sold $2.48 billion of shares in Bank of China Ltd. and China Construction Bank Corporation as profit growth in banks is decreasing with tighter controls on lending in the country.
Security forces and pro-regime gunmen were called in to break up anti-government demonstrations in the city's main university complex after approximately 1,500 students began protesting in the main campus late on Wednesday.
A recent investigation concluded more than 1,500 boxes of top secret or confidential-level documents have been misplaced as of March 2011.
Newly released correspondence between Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants illuminate the inner workings of Al Qaeda, touching on topics that include media messaging, the need to unify an increasingly fractured organization and fears that jihadists are alienating other Muslims.
A survey of three swing states -- Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- show more voters want the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the health care law.
Amid mutual political and economic pressures, the U.S. and China are pushing each other to change economic and trade policies seen by each side as being disadvantageous to trade and economic growth.
In the two-month aftermath of a chaotic 2007 election, at least 1,200 people were killed and anywhere from 300,000 to 600,000 were displaced from their homes.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, one of Mitt Romney's most vehement critics, is expected to endorse the presumed Republican nominee, four months after dropping out of the race.
The strike in Abyan province is the latest in a series of attacks on al-Qaeda targets in the troubled Arabian state, which is battling Islamists Ansar al-Sharia (Partisans of Islamic Law) who have won a string of humiliating victories over government troops.
The Brazilian military has launched a massive operation to crack down on drug trafficking, illegal logging and mining and other criminal activity in a vast, remote swath of the Amazon.
A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday shows President Barack Obama deadlocked with Mitt Romney in Florida and Ohio, while the president leads his GOP rival in Pennsylvania.
U.S. non-farm productivity fell in the first quarter by 0.5 percent as the country's employment base increased, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The French economy and immigration, as expected, dominated the clash.
A successor the Titanic may be coming from China, funded by Australian money. But not everybody is convinced the project will succeed.
The Republicans have a new message: the president of Hope and Change is now the president of Hype and Blame.
Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said Thursday he would launch a pre-emptive strike against missile shield facilities, which are planned in Poland, Turkey and Romania.
The lack of bureaucratic support as well as aggressive regulation and tax policies are scaring away foreign investors from India, the chairman of Honeywell International has said, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.
