Perhaps the downgrade was not too much of a surprise.
For more than a century, mysterious crop circles have baffled scientists and farmers with its complex patterns and sophisticated shapes.
Gold jumped more than 1 percent and metals market plunged on Friday as investors sought safe havens and fled riskier assets on worries over slowing global economic growth.
Independent filmmaker Rick Mereki has created three minute-long films about the essence of travel, titled "MOVE," "EAT," "LEARN," that have gone viral on the Web.
A look at the upcoming Grand Slam tennis tournament.
An Australian research firm will be on a one-year project to analyze the smell of urine of dingoes, a threatened wild dog species, to manage the pest animal's activities in farms and villages.
The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: AMERCO, Shutterfly, priceline.com, Carrizo Oil & Gas, and Spreadtrum Communications. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: MIPS Technologies, Cogo Group, Rubicon Technology, Penson Worldwide, and TTM Technologies.
They are a rag-tag bunch, often working from home or tiny offices scattered round the world, from rural Texas to Beverly Hills and a suburb near Australia's Bondi Beach.
After serving as host of the telethon since 1966, comedian Jerry Lewis has been pulled from the Muscular Dystrophy Association?s annual Labor Day fundraiser.
Australia declared itself well positioned on Friday to take additional measures to bolster the economy should turmoil in world markets turn into a re-run of the 2009 global financial crisis.
Fluor Corp (FLR.N), the largest publicly traded U.S. engineering company, posted unexpected second-quarter profit growth and said its backlog of work surged to a new record, lifting its stock by 7 percent.
Former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen is looking for a spark to reignite his game at this week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational after escaping injury in a traffic accident while preparing for the tournament.
The British band played Winehouse?s hit song at their L.A. show.
It appears that wallabies stoned on opium are making crop circles in Australia.
A stuttering economy and anemic profit growth means company bosses' pay is unlikely to rise as fast this year as in 2010, but complaints from politicians and disgruntled shareholders over executive rewards are not going away.
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd <0013.HK>, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's flagship ports-to-telecommunications company, posted a 632 percent rise in first-half net profit, helped by hefty one-off gain from the spin-off of its port assets, but lagging market forecasts.
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson is known for his many exploits in the travel and tourism industry. From space tourism to new ventures in the railway sector, the British entrepreneur has a deep-set passion for high-end adventurous vehicles.
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, Europe's second-biggest insurer, said on Thursday that first-half net income quadrupled, beating forecasts, helped by 1.44 billion euros ($2.05 billion) in one-off gains related to asset sales.The Sydney teenage girl named Madeleine Pulver has been reported to be safe and freed from the bomb device attached to her for 10 hours. A bomb collar device was attached onto her by an unidentified man who broke into her family's mansion. He forcibly locked the collar around her neck then fled the scene, allow the teenager to call police.
An 18 year old girl was forced to wear an elaborate and sophisticated bomb device around her neck after an assailant broke into the teenager's home. Police spent the next 10 hours working to free the Australian teen from the live device preventing detonation and perhaps saving hundreds of lives in the wealthy Sydney town.
A teenage girl at the center of a major bomb scare in Sydney, Australia is holding up well and is being reassured by trained officers, police say.
Jay-Z and Kanye West have been celebrating the launch of their 'Watch the Throne' album in New York City. The pair - who joined forces to create the album, which is set to be released on August 8 - were partying all night to their own tracks.
