CHINA

The high-profile execution of Kim Jong Un's uncle has baffled North Korea watchers. Here's what might have happened.

The iPhone 5s is off to an incredibly impressive start in the U.S. and especially China, where Apple was hoping to make greater inroads in 2013.

The world's fastest-growing air travel market struggles to find enough qualified people to fill pilot seats.

The just-completed, annual, high-level meeting is closed-door, but a few themes were communicated.

With an A-list celebrity helping, electric cars may finally begin to get cool status among the Chinese.

A look at the options for those exploring the digital currency Bitcoin.

Nicaragua is determined to see its dream of a transoceanic canal rivaling the Panama Canal come to life. Opponents say it will never happen.

GDP growth will slow just a little more in China, but that pace is in-line with the nation's plan for reform.

Despite previous failed attempts, one of the nations with the heaviest rate of smoking is considering banning it in public places.

On the day GM announces sale of Peugeot Stake, automaker says it made $500 million selling what was once GMAC.

Despite Seoul's official defiance against China's new air zone, Korea's international airlines have announced they will comply.

Its iPhone 5s was the best-selling smartphone in October.

Monitor lizards have a unidirectional way of taking in oxygen, a new study suggests.

New York-based China Labor Watch is again calling for answers from Taiwan-based Pegatron, a key Apple supplier, due to the death of an underage worker.

Researchers have found the H7N9 virus remains powerful even after it develops a resistance to antiviral medications.

Driven by the availability of 4G network and an adapting rural population, China's smartphone market will continue to grow.

Chinese consumer demand for gold may reach the highest ever for any country in 2013.

France, in particular -- long the center of all things European – has found itself in the unenviable position of looking backwards to its fading glories.

As China focuses more attention on its scientific programs, one fantastic project has caught the eye of government funding.

The Bank of America sees the S&P 500 hitting 2,000 by year-end 2014, and gold dropping to $1,250 per oz. in Q1, before rebounding.

The 75-year old Mexican oil monopoly is opening up to its first foreign partners -- now the question is, who would they be?