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Markets will look to data on durable goods orders, the consumer sentiment index and quarterly earnings for direction.

The rise is a result of higher energy costs and a weaker yen. A pick-up in domestic demand is yet to happen.

Japanese lawmakers will probably submit formal legislation seeking to overturn a ban on casinos soon.

Earnings from major companies and key data points such as trade, jobless claims and manufacturing PMI will hold investors’ interest.

Japan's Hayabusa2 will feature a "space cannon" that will fire a projectile into an asteroid in 2018.

What is Iran willing to do in order to ease sanctions? Is renewable energy really a way the country can offset energy prices?

The bank's policy meeting also showed concern about the short-term future of the euro zone and the impact of the U.S. government shutdown.

China, fearful of its trouble with the WTO, is cleaning up its act in rare earth extraction.

Monsanto spent $1 million more on lobbying in the third quarter of 2013 than it did in the second.

Europe received 20 million more arrivals in the first eight months of 2013 than it did in 2012. Here's where they're coming from.

A new study of the herpes virus has confirmed widely-held beliefs about human migration.

Two years after the Fukushima power plant disaster, nuclear energy is still viewed as a reliable way to reduce greenhouse gases.

A host of official economic indicators from Japan suggest a slight slowdown in growth.

Reviving Japan's battered exports has been a main objective of the country's prime minister.

The current U.S. energy boom makes it easy to forget the great impact the oil shortage had on Americans 40 years ago.

With the U.S. government back open, we will finally get the government payrolls report next Tuesday.

In a statement, President Obama said, “Today, America has lost a legend of the U.S. Congress.”

Ford’s Model T was more fuel efficient than most cars in the early 70s. The oil scarcity shock helped change that.

Google's performance lifted market sentiment as attention shifted to quarterly earnings reports from major Wall Street companies.

Three weeks ago, we asked IBTimes readers to vote for the places they most wanted to see before they died. Now we’re back with the top 20.

Sales should slowly recover worldwide, after several months of uneven growth and declines.