A bronze state of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old boy wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in a Jakarta park, Indonesia.
Shares in China Longyuan Power Group Corp Ltd (0916.HK), the world's 5th-largest wind power generator, rose 9 percent on their Hong Kong debut though this was less than expected and came after a U.N. body blocked carbon financing for some China wind projects.
Oracle Corp's (ORCL.O) customers told concerned European Union regulators on Thursday that the U.S. software company's $7 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O) would not curtail competition in the database market.
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark testified on Thursday he decided to trust eBay Inc after a key 2004 meeting in which then-CEO Meg Whitman and other executives said the Internet giant shared the small private company's core values.
European gasoline prices fell on Thursday, pressured by swelling stocks and a lack of export opportunities to the key U.S. market.
President Barack Obama has confronted the paradox between war and peace, while receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
An bright white spiral lit up Norway's sky on Wednesday morning, with one expert suspecting the light show was created by a malfunctioning Russian missile spinning out of control.
BlackRock Inc plans to launch a portfolio that will let wealthy individual investors access hedge funds that have boosted pension funds' and endowments' returns, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
Jamie Grubbs who is Tiger Woods' alleged mistress number 2 confessed on a television show about her affair with Woods and apologized to his embattled wife Elin Nordegren, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
Harvard University said on Thursday that it cannot afford to complete construction of its $1 billion science complex right now and will pause its campus expansion outside its Cambridge, Massachusetts, home.
Endowment funds of major colleges and universities lost 19 percent for the year ended June 2009, outpacing the 28 percent drop in the Standard & Poor's 500, according to a survey released on Thursday.
Honduras' de facto government will only allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to leave the country if he signs a letter dropping his demand to be reinstated, the leftist said on Thursday.
The Australian Dollar opens higher today at 0.9160 and received a boost on Thursday from better than expected local jobs data.
The Obama administration's pay czar plans to announce on Friday his next wave of rulings as bailout recipients struggle to get out from under his thumb.
U.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Thursday to break the deadlock at climate change talks in Copenhagen, even though many nations accused the United States of lacking ambition.
Stocks gained on Thursday as signs of improving trends in the job market and a decline in the U.S. October trade deficit reassured investors the economy was on a steady growth path.
China's top climate envoy called on President Barack Obama to increase a U.S. offer to cut greenhouse gases, and said it would discuss a 2050 emissions goal only if rich nations offered more cash and carbon cuts.
The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $447 billion bill that boosts funding for a large part of the U.S. government and reflects priorities of Democrats who control Congress and the White House.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to pay top managers their 2009 bonuses in stock, rather than cash, as it seeks to deflect outrage over a near-record pay haul months after it repaid billions of dollars in taxpayer aid.
Stocks gained on Thursday as signs of improving trends in the job market and a decline in the U.S. October trade deficit reassured investors the economy was on a steady growth path.
H1N1 pandemic swine flu is far less lethal than feared, British scientists said on Wednesday, but public health officials should not be complacent in fighting it and vaccination campaigns should continue.
Bone marrow transplants, already used to treat some children with sickle cell disease, also may cure some adults with this deadly genetic defect that causes red blood cells to contort, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday.
