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For the first time, foreign visitors to North Korea are being allowed to bring their own mobile phones into the country.

Crude oil prices declined during the Asian trading hours Monday after surging to a four-month high last week.

Japanese officials have said warning shots would be fired at foreign aircrafts violating its airspace, after an incident last week saw Beijing and Tokyo scramble fighter planes over airspace incursions near a set of hotly contested islands in the East China Sea.

High demand for ivory in Asia has spurred an increase in elephant poaching in Africa, endangering vulnerable communities.

Rio Tinto Group, the mining giant that just admitted that it’s worth $14 billion less than previously stated, is at a crossroads.

Most of the Asian markets rose as investor confidence was lifted amid the encouraging economic indicators from the U.S. and China.

Economists continue to be at odds over the reliability of official Chinese data, but Baring Asset’s Khiem Do says they are "OK."

Seattle coffee giant Starbucks is expected to report a 14 percent gain in earnings per share on an 11 percent sales increase.

Sports journalism is under scrutiny this week, following the Manti Te'o hoax and Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey.

High pollution levels lead to 3,200 premature deaths annually in the bustling, affluent metropolis.

Strong demand for oil and gas equipment lifted GE's fourth-quarter sales and profit above analyst expectations.

The U.S. stock index signaled a higher open Friday as investor sentiment turned positive amid the encouraging data from China.

Asian stock markets advanced Friday as sentiment was buoyed following the release of improved economic data in both the U.S. and China.

China’s economy rose at a better than expected rate in the fourth quarter of last year, indicating that economic growth is reviving.

Outsourcing jobs to Asia is common for companies. A U.S. software developer just got caught doing it for himself. The problem? It isn't legal.

Notre Dame says its star was the victim of "catfishing" -- a term that has its roots in a fishy story told in a movie.

China’s GAC Group showed up at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show, but it’s not quite ready for prime time yet.

U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower open Thursday ahead of the Labor Department's weekly jobless claims data and the Census Bureau’s data on housing starts and building permits.

Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday as investors opted for caution ahead of China’s fourth quarter growth economic data release Friday.

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple’s fifth-generation iPad to be “significantly lighter and slimmer” than last year’s models.

Should Dell go private? Here's a checklist for the CEO, who may not want to cede control of the company he's nurtured for 29 years.