The dip to 49.5 in January from the previous month's 50.5 signals a renewed deterioration in business conditions.
A leaked photo may indicate that the Samsung Galaxy S5 has a 16-megapixel camera.
What's more, rebels and extremists in control of key oil and gas fields are now funding the fight to depose Assad.
"Whether financial products in China can default or not is, at the end of the day, a political decision," Societe Generale's Wei said.
What's more, two factors are helping to boost smartphone buys.
Harsh sentences under strict new anti-poaching laws may help stem the illegal ivory trade in Africa.
Besides increasing affluence among the Chinese, there's another big reason they're drinking more of it now than the French do.
The established company leads globally in the toothpaste segment.
The only Q4 GDP report weak spot is likely to be government spending - which was hurt by the government shutdown.
Here are some highlights of the coverage of President Obama’s address by media outlets from around the world.
Here's the full text of President Barack Obama's 2014 State of the Union address.
Like Harry Truman, President Barack Obama made it clear his powerful pen would do much to address a 'Do-Nothing Congress.'
Baidu Migrate shows real-time journeys across China for the Lunar New Year in a mesmerizing web of blue lines.
The full version of Scarlett Johansson's now censored SodaStream commercial that's set to air during Super Bowl XLVIII.
As the South African economy lags, private equity investors are less interested in the country, and looking instead to its high-growth neighbors such as Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria.
The massive holiday travel rush is threatening containment of the H7N9 strain of the bird flu.
Ford's share price is trading lower after it reported its 4Q and 2013 performance. Here's why.
A conservation group found a slaughterhouse that processes 600 whale sharks annually in southern China.
More people visited Hong Kong in 2012 than any other city in the world.
Over the weekend, Google's Chinese url was temporarily made accessible, and it still remains accessible on mobile devices.
Apple gave a weak guidance for the second quarter, but the rest of 2014 should go better for the company.
And is the above a sign of another structural change in the auto sector?