None of India's 20 nuclear power plants were disturbed by the earthquake, officials said Monday. The nuclear facility closest to the quake's epicenter is the Narora Power Station, some 800 miles to the west. The quake hit Sunday night, and the death toll has reached 74 people.
While speculation in recent months has run in every direction about when Apple's iPhone 5 will be released and what new features and design the product will have a new report suggests the company will do what many did not expect -- releasing two new iPhone handsets.
China will be the dominant economic power in 2030, even if the U.S. economy stages a turnaround as it did in the 1990s, argues Arvind Subramanian, author of upcoming book Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance.
Zambia's police chief deployed thousands of officers across the southern African country on Monday, the eve of a closely contested election between incumbent Rupiah Banda and nationalist opposition leader Michael Sata.
President Hugo Chavez's government formalized the nationalization of Venezuela's gold industry on Monday with a decree that prohibits exports of the metal and gives the state 55 percent of joint ventures.
The BRICS emerging market powerhouses have already bought debt through the European Financial Stability Facility and could buy more, a potential help to struggling euro zone economies, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.
Largely unnoticed by markets riveted by the drama of the day, more and more countries are successfully implementing complex, politically treacherous reforms needed to raise their long-term economic growth rates.
There have been a number of high-profile earthquakes in the last month, including ones in India, Japan, Cuba, Indonesia and the United States. Here are the ten worst quakes over the past 100 years.
The BRICS emerging market powerhouses have already bought debt through the European Financial Stability Facility and could buy more, a potential help to struggling euro zone economies, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.
A group of short-sellers, who earlier this month accused miner Silvercorp Metals of fraud, outlined new allegations against the company on Monday.
Despite rising oil prices, global petroleum use is expected to be stronger over the next two decades than previously estimated, the U.S. government said on Monday.
China urged regional powers on Monday to restart moribund nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, with its foreign minister Yang Jiechi defending Beijing as an honest broker seeking to defuse confrontation with Pyongyang.
As the U.S. economy slouches toward another recession and confidence in policymakers erodes, investors are coming to grips with the notion that the country may already be several years into a Japan-style lost decade.
The death toll has risen to 53 people in Sikkim, India, where a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Sunday night. About ten of the deaths occurred in Nepal, primarily in the capital of Katmandu, where a series of building collapses trapped people under debris.
Rui Feng, the chief executive of embattled miner Silvercorp , has boosted his stake in the company further, according to regulatory filings that indicate his vote of confidence in his own firm.
Global airlines will buy $3.5 trillion of aircraft over the next 20 years to meet relentless demand for travel to and from Asia's burgeoning megacities and renew aging fleets in the West, Airbus said on Monday.
Apple seems to have woken up to the need to tighten its security after it lost an iPhone prototype for the second time — this time it's about the upcoming iPhone 5.
Chinese media also reported that villagers blamed the factory’s pollution for causing at least 31 cases of cancer in the nearby village of Hongxiao.
India and China drove the second-quarter's robust demand for gold, the World Gold Council said in its analysis of industry trends during the three-month period.
Hackers gained access to the computers of the biggest defense contractor in Japan, the manufacturer of Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles, targeting the submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories.
Japan's biggest defense contractor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, said on Monday hackers had gained access to its computers, with one newspaper saying its submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories had been the target.
President Barack Obama will unveil a plan to cut the U.S. deficit by about $3 trillion over the next decade with nearly half of the savings coming from tax increases.
