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The U.S. stock index futures signal a higher open amid the optimism that the earnings season will reveal encouraging results.

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday repeated a new rumor that Apple is working on a cheap iPhone model. But the nearly constant flow of rumors about Apple devices often leads tech-lovers to premature exuberance.

You'd think if Apple wanted to make a low-cost iPhone, it would be small.

From the world’s tallest Ferris wheel to a 2,749-foot skyscraper built in 90 days, here’s a look at the most anticipated openings of 2013.

China took its history with counterfeits and fakes to a new level when replica buildings and entire towns started showing up.

One town in Shanxi, China, started off 2013 with a dogfighting event. It's not illegal in the nation -- unless money changes hands.

Japan’s newly elected government headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador, for the time since its inauguration, to protest against the presence of Chinese vessels in waters near a disputed set of islands in the East China Sea.

The world's second-largest economy has stopped slowing, but the first year under the new leadership will not be easy.

Iran's oil minister admitted that the country's revenues are taking a beating, but remained defiant in the face of a weakened economy.

The mass exodus over Chinese New Year, with about 3.4 billion trips, swamps train stations.

Global sales of consumer electronics may rise about 4 percent in 2013 to $1.11 trillion, the Consumer Electronics Association estimated.

Journalists at a major Chinese newspaper have gone on strike to protest against censorship by the authorities.

The stock index futures pointed to a flat open as investors worried that the sluggish economic growth would affect earnings.

Crude oil prices slightly declined and hovered below $93 a barrel in Asian trading Monday.

The Syrian president's initiative has drawn scorn from both domestic opponents and foreign powers.

Critics say President Obama's "Cash for Clunkers" program, designed to stimulate the economy in 2009, was an environmental disaster.

Asian markets rose as investor sentiment was lifted after the Congress passed a bill intended to avert the fiscal cliff.

China has implemented rules to circumvent online anonymity, which human-rights activists have criticized as a crackdown on political dissent.

Most of the demand for silver fabrication next year will come from industrial customers.

The U.S. trade deficit likely narrowed in November, and the euro-zone recession probably worsened at the end of last year.

Government officials angered journalists at a Guangdong paper when it replaced an article with a propaganda-laced Communist Party piece.