Lowe's Cos Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly results on rising lumber prices and demand for appliances, and the No. 2 U.S. home improvement chain forecast a sales rise in 2010.
North Korea has proposed holding military talks with the South next week after it raised tension on the troubled peninsula last week by warning it would hold live-fire drills near the border with its rival.
It was indeed Miller Time -- as the beer slogan goes -- for the U.S. Olympic team Sunday after skier Bode Miller snatched his first Olympic gold medal and ice hockey goalkeeper Ryan Miller stopped Canada in a heartbreaking loss for the hockey-crazed host nation.
President Barack Obama will pitch his bid to revamp the U.S. healthcare system as a way to control big insurance company rate increases when he releases his healthcare plan on Monday, the White House said.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Monday after Schlumberger agreed to buy Smith International for $11.34 billion in stock and Lowe's Co. posted better-than-expected earnings, indicating increased confidence among corporate managers and consumers.
U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware programme used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
A senior Chinese military officer has called for a new national body to enforce Internet controls, while China faced fresh claims on Monday about the source of hacking attacks that hit search giant Google.
U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday after Schlumberger agreed to buy Smith International for $11.34 billion in stock and Lowe's Co. posted better-than-expected earnings, indicating increased confidence among corporate managers and consumers.
DENVER - It's been more than six years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates admitted that Apple caught the company flat-footed in the digital music market and directed his team to make up for lost ground, according to recently surfaced internal e-mails.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the vaccine to help protect people aged between 11 and 55 years against potentially deadly meningitis.
Gearing up for a bipartisan meeting it hopes will help seize back control of the healthcare debate, the White House will unveil its own plan on Monday for how to overhaul the $2.5 trillion medical care system.
Abbott Laboratories' shares are inexpensive, particularly given the strong outlook the company has on earnings this year, Barron's business newspaper said on Sunday.
U.S. stock index futures rose on Monday after Schlumberger Ltd agreed to buy Smith International for $11.34 billion in stock and Lowe's Co. posted better-than-expected earnings.
Mazda Motor Corp said it would not launch a special marketing campaign to draw customers away from Toyota Motor, shunning a strategy used by other car makers keen to capitalize on Toyota's recall woes.
A last-ditch attempt at passing a climate change bill begins in the Senate this week with senators mindful that time is running short and that approaches to the legislation still vary widely, according to sources.
Taiwan's fighter jets would fall short in combat against military rival China, the U.S. government said in a report on Monday that could lead to new weapons sales sure to anger Beijing.
State governors want Congress and President Barack Obama to pay more attention to their concerns as they renew efforts to reform healthcare.
The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region and urged President Isaias Afwerki to bring a halt to what it called a threat to international peace.
A year after President Barack Obama proposed a plan to clean up the Great Lakes, the government Sunday laid out its plan to improve the ecology of the major bodies of water that support much of U.S. agriculture and industry.
Many teachers and educators across the United States are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the country's education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, who angered environmentalists, fishing groups and other Democratic lawmakers by proposing to divert more water to California's farmers, said on Friday she was working to avoid controversial legislation.
A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan has killed 33 people after an aircraft fired on civilians mistakenly thought to be insurgents, the Afghan government said on Monday.
