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U.S. intelligence failed to predict the North Korean rocket launch, CBS News reports. And the satellite’s orbit seemed to be unstable.

A look ahead to the women’s soccer friendly between the United States and China.

The one-billionth tourist is predicted to cross an international border on Thursday, marking a milestone in human interaction.

North Korea's successful rocket launch has stirred-up a host of reactions, and escalated tensions in the East Asia area.

PolitiFact has named Mitt Romney's claim and subsequent ad about Barack Obama shifting Jeep production away from the U.S. and into China the "lie of the year."

Is it a hit? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) boosted production of its $499 Surface tablet, rival to the iPad from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).

Even in China's red-hot economy, recent graduates aren't securing jobs. But it's not always because they can't find them.

If Congress can strike a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, the U.S. economy could show some meaningful improvements in 2013.

Students from the East Asian and certain European countries outdo those from the other parts of the world in mathematics, science and reading comprehension, according to a set of global studies.

North Korea launched its second long-range rocket of 2012. Unlike the first, it succeeded and apparently put a satellite into space.

Protests over a new high-speed railway project in Beijing were not stopped by local officials. Has China's government softened up on dissenters?

Also this week, China's policymakers are expected to meet on Dec. 12-14 for the annual Central Economic Work Conference (CEWC) to set the policy framework for 2013.

A failed proposal backed by Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others at WCIT in Dubai this week might have curtailed Internet freedoms.

China's 2013 economic policy will be determined at the upcoming Central Economic Work Conference. Most observers say it's going to go for one thing above all: stabillity.

Intelligence experts say the U.S. will lose its clout by 2030, but that won't be just bad news for Americans.

The Japanese Army abducted at least 200,000 women of all ages across East Asia to serve as “comfort women.”

China's President-in-waiting Xi Jinping's first official visit was not greeted with the typical pomp that surrounds the arrival of an official. That led Chinese netizens to comment on what could be the new governments' first sign of reform.

China's rebound continues, but it appears to be losing some strength.

Opponents of foreign big-box retail in India claim Wal-Mart's engagement with Capitol Hill amounts to corruption.

Samsung Electronics (KRX:005930) was the clear winner shipping “connected” devices in the third quarter, with a 22 percent share, IDC said.

Russia, the UAE and several other nations have proposed at a U.N. conference in Dubai to restructure the governance of the Internet and place it under state control with authorization for extensive surveillance and censorship.