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Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe.

The U.S. Senate is as mad as you-know-what and it's apparently not going to take it anymore: the Senate Tuesday voted overwhelmingly, 79-19, to approve a procedural measure that speeds the way for a bill designed to put pressure on China to allow its currency to appreciate.

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, cancelled a trip to South Africa planned for this week that had put Pretoria in a bind between its biggest trading partner China and one of its modern heroes, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.

Anticipation of Apple's Tuesday unveiling of the iPhone 5 has reached fever pitch, with speculation on everything from form to features running rampant. Chinese state-run carrier China Unicom added to the frenzy this week at the Macworld Asia expo in Beijing by presenting a slideshow that included a segment documenting the evolution of the iPhone.

Although Apple has sent out Let's talk iPhone invitations to the press and it is highly likely that it will announce the release information of iPhone 5 at the Oct. 4 event, people can hardly wait to catch a glimpse of the next generation iPhone.

The Dalai Lama was blocked from visiting South Africa two years ago as well.

A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.

Ten years after lawyers helped forge an agreement to bring China into the World Trade Organization , a step that created opportunities for scores of non-Chinese businesses, foreign attorneys in the country wish they had struck a better deal for themselves.

Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.

Global subsidies for fossil fuel consumption are set to reach $660 billion in 2020 unless reforms are passed to effectively eliminate this form of state aid, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is gearing up towards the release of a new iPhone, presumably called as iPhone 5, a Wall Street analyst said Apple stock could reach $666 next year.

A battered pickup truck pulling up to Huaying Trading's back street office in Goma is about all that remains of Congo's once-bustling resources business as an impending U.S. crackdown on so-called conflict minerals scares most buyers away.

Apple Inc. fans has been waiting and expecting the company to showcase the most anticipated smartphone iPhone 5 on Tuesday. The Apple's Let's Talk iPhone event is just hours away.

Apple is set to unveil a new iPhone, presumably called the iPhone 5, within hours at its Cupertino headquarters in California.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.4 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.5 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.5 percent at 0841 GMT.

Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.4 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.5 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.5 percent at 0841 GMT.

Anyone hoping that recent falls in commodity prices would provide a boost to powerhouse Asian economies and help lift the developed world out of recessionary danger will be disappointed. The region's focus remains firmly on inflation.

Should the United States tolerate slightly higher inflation, in order to have the economy grow at a faster rate and create more jobs?

Devotees stab knives, umbrellas, and other objects through their cheek in honor of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival now underway in Thailand.

Since July 1, 2002, IBM shares have tripled in value, while Microsoft stock has barely budged.

Gold rose 1.6 percent on Monday, its biggest one-day gain in a month, as bullion resumed its role as a haven from turmoil following its worst monthly loss since the financial crisis in 2008.