The United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday.
Iran has successfully produced and tested fuel rods for use in its nuclear power plants, state television reported on Sunday, in a snub to international demands that it halt sensitive nuclear work.
Dysfunctional politics threatens to deliver a protracted period of slow global growth, possibly lasting well beyond 2012, which will only deepen the political and economic problems for the West.
The United States will remain the top choice of most global commercial real estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday.
The United States will continue to be the top choice of most global commercial real-estate investors in 2012, but the country has lost ground to Brazil, which ranked No. 2 this year, according to a survey released Sunday.
Sachin Tendulkar's incredible record at Sydney Cricket Ground makes Mike Hussey nervous but the Australian batsman and his team mates will do everything to prolong the Indian great's agonising wait for his 100th international century.
Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief who holds more then 400 patents, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, 85, an iPod user.
Occupy this: the trash bin. At least, so say students at Michigan's Lake Superior State University who released an annual list of words they deem so misused, overused and cliched they should be banished in the year ahead.
Siri, the voice-controlled, intelligent, personal assistant that has become the most popular feature of iPhone 4S, is useful and will try to answer all your questions. But don't push it too far or else, it might hurl curses at you, as a 10-year-old British kid found out, to the dismay of his parents.
The year 2011 was Britain's second-warmest ever, the Met Office said on Friday, although temperatures in December have in fact been close to average.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, India-born U.S. citizen whose work in molecular biology won him the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will be knighted in UK, media reports said.
British comedian and actor Russell Brand called it quits on his 14-month marriage to Teenage Dream singer Katy Perry on Friday, filing for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
Shares of Verizon Communications, majority owner of Verizon Wireless, rose after the company squelched a day-old plan to charge customers a $2 “convenience fee” to pay their bills.
British actor Russell Brand filed for divorce on Friday from his singer wife Katy Perry after just over a year of marriage.
To culminate a spectacular year, Pippa Middleton will celebrate the end of 2011 by throwing what will surely be one of the most fabulous New Year's Eve parties around.
Europe's markets closed slightly higher Friday, but ended 2011 with large losses. In 2011 London's FTSE 100 declined 5.6 percent, Germany's DAX fell 14.7 percent, and France's CAC 40 finished the year with a 17 percent decline.
Rioting erupted in the poor and largely black neighborhood of Toxteth in Liverpool as an expression of frustration over poverty, economic disadvantages, racism and police brutality.
When 12-year-old boy named Charlie Le Quesne got the shock of his life when the Siri app on a demo iPhone 4S told him to shut the f--k up and called him an ugly t--t when he asked it a question at an Apple store in Conventry, UK. Apple staffers have launched a full investigation, but it's likely pranksters simply reprogrammed the iPhone using Siri's naming system.
Long before the latest global breast implant scare, American health officials were toying with the idea of building a registry that would track patients with implants.
European shares were poised to register their biggest annual drop since 2008 on Friday after a year marred by the Eurozone debt crisis that has threatened to drag down the global economy.
Just one test into the four-match series against Australia and India are confronting the grim reality that they remain international cricket's slowest starters, especially on tour. Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that India start slow.
Meryl Streep looks set for an unprecedented 17th Oscar nomination after earning glowing reviews for her performance as Britain's Margaret Thatcher in the movie The Iron Lady.
