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Stock index futures fell on Monday as a delay in emergency loans to Greece and a possible downgrade of Italy's credit rating rekindled fears about the euro zone debt crisis, pushing investors out of riskier assets.

China's Huawei Technologies unveiled a new tablet computer called the MediaPad on Monday that it hopes could take on market leaders Apple and Samsung Electronics.

After being world famous for making clones of gadgets and garments, the Chinese are doing it again, in a new style this time. They are making a copy of a whole village situated in Alphine!

Virgin Australia Ltd. said that it will suspend flights in and out of the southern city of Adelaide on Tuesday as dust from a Chilean volcano returns to Australian airspace.

A supercomputer made by Japan tops the latest ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, pushing China to the second place.

Famed market bear Nouriel Roubini may be talking down China, but resource firms are betting billions that rapid urbanization and economic growth will soak up the country's massive infrastructure investment and prevent a hard landing.

The euro dipped on Monday and Asian stocks flipped back into the red after euro zone finance ministers delayed a final decision on extending emergency loans to debt-stricken Greece, dashing hopes for a quick solution to the political impasse.

Softbank expects to reach an agreement soon with Alibaba Group over ownership of China's leading e-payment provider Alipay, the Japanese mobile carrier's CEO said on Monday.

Japan's exports fell in May at a faster pace than expected versus year-ago levels, raising concerns that weakness in overseas demand will constrain factory production and delay economic recovery from a massive natural disaster.

A technical failure in a NATO missile may have caused a number of civilian casualties in Tripoli, a spokesman said on Sunday.

The marines who mistakenly thought an Airbus passenger plane was a North Korean fighter jet and opened fired will not be punished, officials said on Sunday.

Torrential rain across south eastern China has displaced or otherwise affected over 5 million people, killing scores and threatening global commodity prices.

Social networking site Facebook lost a significant number of its users in the US in May, raising fears over the site’s user base reaching saturation levels in the country.

European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet on Sunday raised concern about widening global imbalances after the financial crisis, calling them one of the main challenges for the global economy.

Warren Buffett-backed Chinese carmaker BYD Co Ltd <1211.HK> will raise a less-than-expected 1.42 billion yuan ($219 million) in its initial public offering in Shenzhen, weighed down by weak investor sentiment and worries over its poor performance.

US Department of Energy will offer a conditional guarantee as part of a $150 million loan to 1366 Technologies Inc for the development of a multicrystalline wafer manufacturing project.

New satellite pictures show skyscrapers townships completely empty in China that have been completely abandoned after construction.

More than two million people were affected or displaced due to heavy floods in the eastern province of Zhejiang in China.

The ongoing sovereign crisis in the eurozone countries has renewed concerns over the fate of the euro, the second largest reserve currency as well as the second most traded currency in the world.

A Chinese software company is alleged to have placed security holes in its products sold to chemical defense and energy companies in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Beijing-based Sunway ForceControl makes SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) software which is used in computer systems that control and monitor manufacturing plants and equipment used by different industries.

Boeing Co says it feels no pressure to rush a decision on whether to re-engine or redesign its best-selling 737 narrow-body, despite impressive orders for an upgraded version of the competing plane -- the Airbus A320neo.