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India's external affairs minister S M Krishna Tuesday sought to assuage the foreign investors' concerns over the country's economic growth.

Crude oil futures hovered above $83 a barrel Wednesday ahead of a weekly report on US oil supplies as well as Thursday's OPEC ministerial meeting in Vienna.

Stock markets in Hong Kong and China advanced Wednesday following an overnight rally in Wall Street overnight.

Iran also said Tuesday that it had begun the overhaul of one of the three Russian-made nuclear-powered submarines in its fleet despite Moscow rejecting Tehran's requests for help with the remodeling, Iran's Fars News Agency reported.

Sales of the Chevrolet Volt Hybrid-Electric Vehicle (HEV) have experienced a resurgence in California following tweaks that now allow the car from General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) to qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane access.

The IOU that is being laid on the doorsteps of U.S. taxpayers in the form of the national debt is far greater than most Americans realize. That's because the federal government does not report the true size of the national debt -- now nearly $80 trillion.

20% of surveyed Chinese companies indicate convenience and reduced FX risk for the preference to be paid in Chinese renminbi

Where to watch live coverage of the World Cup qualifier between the U.S. and Guatemala.

The 2008 presidential candidate's daughter admits to having smoked pot and believes marijuana should be legalized -- not the usual fare from a prominent Republican's offspring.

That massive pile of cash corporate America has been sitting on for years is shrinking, and the reason it's declining bodes well for the nation's economy.

Stanford University is testing out the new program Congestion and Parking Relief Incentives, or Capri, to decrease traffic congestion by paying drivers to commute at off-peak hours.

Rihanna may say that her collaboration with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown earlier this year was strictly professional, but sources close to the singer may think otherwise. According to the New York Post, the two former lovers have been ?seeing a lot of each other in private,? sources said to the newspaper. Over the weekend Brown joined the Barbados-born singer and her family at a Miami Heat game, furthering rumors of a reunion.

Royal, who lost the French presidential election in 2007 to Nicolas Sarkozy, won 32 percent of the vote for the parliamentary seat in La Rochelle during last weekend?s election, to 29 percent for Falorni.

Hackers gathered in Tel Aviv last week to discuss the state of cybersecurity, amid suspicions that Israel is behind attacks on Iranian computers.

The British minister held discussions with both Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and added that he urged a quick reconciliation.

T-Mobile has finally started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung's Galaxy S2.

U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson has taken a leave of absence after being involved in two bizarre, back-to-back traffic accidents in California over the weekend.

In a new poll, 49 percent of respondents said Republican lawmakers are stalling on efforts to improve the economy in order to damage President Obama's re-election chances.

TomTom (Pink:TMOAF), the Dutch navigation software specialist, is already benefiting from its new tie to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, which hired it to provide data for the iPhone.

A drone aircraft crashed around noon Monday on Maryland's Eastern shore near Salisbury, but did not cause any injuries or property damage, Naval officials said.

Washington, which put a $33 million bounty on the heads of six al Shabab commanders last week, said on Sunday that it will continue to provide assistance to the African Union Mission in Somalia, of which Kenya is a part, but did not elaborate.