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Today, June 21, is the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and obviously, it also marks the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.

Jon Huntsman officially announced his presidential bid today, charging that the country's current course will hobble future generations.

Korean Air announced Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, to buy Bombardier's C series aircraft, the value of the order is valued at US$616-million based on list price, but could swell upto US$1-billion if all the orders comes to a definitive.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Tower Bancorp, SunPower, Rex Energy, Logitech International, Zalicus, Baidu, and Apple. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Susquehanna Bancshares, Prospect Capital, Express Scripts, and Sify Technologies.

Here is an interesting fact about the Summer Solstice. The longest day of the year is not normally the warmest.

The rash of accounting scandals that has hit U.S.-listed Chinese stocks has not curbed the appetite of private equity and venture capital firms looking for the next set of Chinese Internet stars in the mainland's So-Lo-Mo and luxury e-commerce sectors.

Shares of major Chinese lenders China Construction Bank <0939.HK> and Agricultural Bank of China <1288.HK> fell to multi-month lows on Tuesday, hit by potentially souring loans, an economic slowdown and tighter capital requirements.

China's National Meteorological Center on Tuesday forecast more rainfall in flood-hit areas of central and southern China after millions of people were forced to evacuate their homes.

Today, June 21, is the longest day of the year in the northern Hemisphere and it also marks the official beginning of the summer season.

TOP500 released the latest list of top ten most powerful, high-performance computers in the world at the 26th International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Monday.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Vitacost.com, Gulf Resources, Vical, Clearwire, Copano Energy, and Apple. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Prospect Capital, Leap Wireless International, Iridium Communications, Impax Laboratories, and Adobe Systems.

Foster's Group on Tuesday rejected a A$9.5 billion ($10.1 billion) cash takeover offer from SABMiller as too low after the global brewing giant offered only a slim premium for Australia's largest brewer.

A spate of high-profile online break-ins has given defense firms at the Paris Air Show a new sales pitch: cyber security.

Huwai just introduced the first Android 3.2 tablet—the 7-inch MediaPad, in Singapore with CommunicAsia being the launchpad for the device.

Investors are increasingly worried that troubles in the euro zone and China will hurt global economic growth this year, curbing gains in equity and commodity markets, a Barclays Capital survey showed on Monday.

Rainfall expected to boost China's agricultural production have instead caused widespread flooding, increased food prices and caused death in the East and South of the People's Republic.

Brazilian planemaker Embraer sees good chances of firm orders from U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines, which will likely make a decision to renew its fleet by October, a top company executive told Reuters on Monday.

A 7-inch Android-based tablet PC, the MediaPad was unveiled by China Huawei technologies in Singapore on Monday.

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!