A survey of four locations in Fukushima city, outside the nuclear evacuation zone, has showed soil radiation above levels that has prompted evacuation of pregnant women and children from the city.
China will reform its export of rare earths based in part on World Trade Organization rules, state media reported on Wednesday, a day after the global trade governing body ruled against its curbs on exports.
Emerging market debt issuance has soared in the first six months of 2011, driven by heavy corporate bond volumes and flying in the face of debt problems in the developed world, but risk aversion may erode demand in the second half.
Emerging market debt issuance has soared in the first six months of 2011, driven by heavy corporate bond volumes and flying in the face of debt problems in the developed world, but risk aversion may erode demand in the second half.
Plans by Ukrainian officials to open a museum on the site of a bunker once used by Adolf Hitler has prompted fears such a place could become a shrine for neo-Nazis.
Clothing retailer Gap Inc will enter Africa this year, as part of an ongoing international push, with plans to open stores in Egypt and Morocco.
Residents near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant in Japan are passing urine contaminated with radiation, raising concern over permanent dwellings in the region.
The trail against Yulia Tymoshenko was chaotic and inflammatory on Friday.
KIEV, June 23 - Ukraine's state security service on Thursday said it had broken up an international hacking ring that infiltrated foreign banks' computer networks and stole $72 million.
A Polish journalist was arrested for slandering the Belorussian president.
Several million fewer girls were born worldwide due to leakage of radioactive elements from nuclear tests and power plant accidents in the last 50 years, a new study has revealed.
Ukraine's government has damaged its credibility among investors by setting unrealistic growth targets and needs to resume talks with the IMF, the central bank said in a memo that exposed deep divisions between policymakers.
Lockheed Martin just confirmed that it was hacked on May 21, 2011. Its swift response stopped the breach before any critical data was stolen. Still, it’s insane that hackers would target Lockheed Martin.
U.S. director Terrence Malick won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes film festival Sunday for The Tree of Life, a meditative, metaphysical epic starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
John Demjanjuk has been convicted of helping Nazi in massacring 28,000 Jews at Sobibor camp during Holocaust, to five years in prison by a German court on Thursday.
BNP Paribas, France's biggest listed bank, beat forecasts for first-quarter revenue and earnings, driven by strong retail growth and resilient investment banking.
An Iranian military commander has accused German engineering company Siemens of helping the United States and Israel launch a cyber attack on its nuclear facilities, Kayhan daily reported on Sunday.
Japan's fragile post-disaster political truce unraveled on Thursday as the head of the main opposition party called on unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan to quit over his handling of the country's natural calamities and a nuclear crisis.
Investors retreated from stocks, oil and other risky assets as a worsening nuclear situation in Japan and a lackluster start to the U.S.'s corporate earnings season cast doubt over the global economic recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 117.53 points, or 0.95%, to 12263.58, while the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 10.30 points, or 0.78%, at 1314.16, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 26.72 points, or 0.96%, to 2744.79.
Lionel Messi's 48th goal of the season saw Barcelona beat Shakhtar Donetsk by an aggregate of 6-1 in Ukraine.
Barcelona and Manchester United advanced to the semi finals of the UEFA Champions League after victories against Shakhtar Donetsk and Chelsea respectively.
Lionel Messi's 48th goal of the season saw Barcelona beat Shakhtar Donetsk by an aggregate of 6-1 in Ukraine.
