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What is Iran willing to do in order to ease sanctions? Is renewable energy really a way the country can offset energy prices?

The five biggest Chinese lenders were obliged to triple bad loan writeoffs in the first half of the year.

Profits for the quarter fell 44 percent from the year before.

The two nuclear-armed neighbors signed nine agreements during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Beijing.

The company plans to use the proceeds from the public offer for technology upgrades and marketing.

Better supplies from Brazil have left coffee prices at serious lows, but that could spell opportunity for investors bullish on coffee.

Could North Korean tourism help disarm the secretive state?

A new study suggests Yangtze finless porpoises have a hard time using sound to navigate their way through the bustling waters.

Russia relies on oil for 50 percent of its revenue, so what is it going to do when -- or if -- Iranian oil hits the market again?

China, fearful of its trouble with the WTO, is cleaning up its act in rare earth extraction.

Chinese trade data showed a 30-month high in platinum imports for September.

A possible investment by China’s second-largest automaker in PSA Peugeot Citroen has France’s industrial minister on the defensive.

It could cost 200,000 yuan just to meet your dream woman in China.

Many Chinese are struggling to turn their phones off in bed. Now there's an app that forces them to.

The pipeline is now sending a lot of natural gas to China, but critics of the project say Myanmar is not getting much out of the deal.

China is cutting down on foreign programming, deeming it too entertainment-driven and not educational enough.

Europe received 20 million more arrivals in the first eight months of 2013 than it did in 2012. Here's where they're coming from.

The Libra oil field, off Brazil's southeast coast, is said to contain up to 12 billion barrels of oil.

The uptick in new housing prices across major cities continues despite the government’s efforts to cool the real estate market.

A new study of the herpes virus has confirmed widely-held beliefs about human migration.

A smog emergency shut down Heilongjiang province, home to 11 million people, in the country’s first major air pollution crisis of the season.