CHINA

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is still worried about high prices, according to a statement on the central Chinese government's website on Friday.

Europe and the United States could face 10 years of slow growth and high unemployment if a global solution for the euro zone debt crisis is not implemented soon, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.

At a time when the tech world is eagerly awaiting the launch of Apple's next generation iPhone aka iPhone 5, French iPhone carrier service Orange's CEO Stephane Richard has made a shocking statement, saying that highly anticipated smartphone will be available in France on Oct. 15.

Mao Zedong famously said a single spark could start a revolutionary prairie fire. That fear is now driving his Communist Party successors to grapple with how to tame China's expanding legions of microbloggers.

Three of the six astronauts who were stationed at the International Space Station, began their return to Earth on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule.

South Korea was the world's most advanced Internet and telecommunications economy in 2010, with high levels of access, usage and skills, while high-speed Web access remained unaffordable in many low-income countries, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Two stores in Queens, New York, accused of peddling unauthorized Apple Inc accessories have agreed to hand over all products in their inventories bearing the word Apple or any of the company's ubiquitous trademarks.

Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, introduced new low-power and multi-core chips specifically designed for cloud computing applications. Some could have as many as 50 core processor.

Shares of Silvercorp Metals Inc., battling anonymous charges of accounting fraud, shot higher Thursday despite a downdraft among precious metals miners that battered their share prices after announcing a stock buyback and a cut in the number of shares outstanding.

Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron landed in Libya to a heroes' welcome on Wednesday, promising help for the new rulers that French and British air power helped to install and being told the favour may be repaid in business contracts.

The drought, which started in the fall of 2010 and hit eight provinces, has already touched more than 44 million people and cost the agriculture industry $4.5 billion,

Courts in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced four people to death for violence in two cities over the summer which left 32 people dead, a government website said.

Fashion bloggers will help propel online sales of designer clothes, jewels and luxury cars to more than 11 billion euros ($15 billion) in 2015, a research report said on Thursday.

A China unit of major lead-acid battery maker Johnson Controls has halted production at its Shanghai factory as authorities investigate into an alleged lead pollution case, the official Shanghai Securities News said on Thursday.

Gadhafi told the world that his four-year-old girl died during the Regan-era bombing raids on Libya in 1986. But is she alive, living in Tripoli as a doctor?

Adobe Flash has finally come to Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, not directly supported but just that the new app tools will be able to export Flash content as an HTML5-supporting format.

Embattled miner Silvercorp Metals Inc., caught in a maelstrom of anonymous fraud allegations, said on Thursday it's pushing ahead with a share repurchase plan.

If Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO is off for the year, would its crackerjack board of directors now consider buying Yahoo in a reverse takeover?

As tech enthusiasts and Apple fans are eagerly awaiting the iPhone 5 that is expected to come in October, a Wall Street analyst expects the next iteration of the iPhone to start selling in China as early as December.

Gold prices fell Thursday around the world as investor fears of a Euro zone collapse gave way to hope that coordinated intervention by global monetary authorities could contain and even cure the continent's sovereign debt crisis.

While public schools have focused their energy on training students in math and reading since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the College Board announced SAT scores in combined reading and math this year have dropped to their lowest point since 1995.