Bayer CropScience Ltd. is working on a stronger, better type of wheat, while others are focusing on soybean and corn.
Earnings from retail majors such as Macy's and Home Depot will influence market movement.
Researchers have found the oldest piece of the Earth's crust yet discovered, a zircon crystal that is 4.4 billion years old.
Experts wonder whether a virus exhibiting polio-like symptoms that has been reported elsewhere in the world may have reached California.
Earnings from retail majors and expectations from jobs and GDP data should influence markets this week.
The Group of 20, or G20, accounts for about 85 percent of the global economy.
After their four collaborations, the two rappers demonstrate real chemistry.
The humble fishing line is being used to create some incredibly strong artificial muscles.
Some snakes don't need to board a plane to soar through the air.
Housing data and corporate earnings could determine if stocks maintain gains from the previous session.
The pact involves automatic sharing of bank information and could be signed as soon as the Sat. G-20 meeting.
Economic data from around the world have managed to hurt sentiment among U.S. investors.
Just after a UN report on gross human rights violations, North Korea detinas an Australian citizen.
Demand for the oil -- which is not traditionally used in Chinese cooking -- is taking off, surprisingly.
Stocks are struggling to match last week's performance, but earnings and economic data could help.
Ricky and Robin Wright aren't assuming the worst about their 19-year-old daughter, last heard from eight months ago.
Nguyen is the most common surname in Vietnam -- an estimated 40 percent of people in the country (and the Vietnamese diaspora) carry that name.
Australia reportedly sends asylum seekers arriving by boat for detention and processing in offshore camps.
Australian taxpayers gave a $794 million payment to Rupert Murdoch, thanks to "paper transactions" among News Corp.’s global subsidiaries.
A birthday invitation, which went viral after a mother scorned gay fathers for raising a child together, turned out to be a hoax.
By adopting the international gold measurement standard, the Southeast Asian takes another step away from isolation.
Refugees from Bhutan stuck in Nepal are learning how to fly, from the ground up, as part of the largest resettlement program in the world.