Avaneesh Pandey

Factories and retailers in the world’s second-largest economy performed worse than expected in the first two months of the year, official data show.

The lander was originally scheduled for launch this month, but it was postponed after NASA failed to repair a leak in a vacuum enclosure.

Indian liquor baron and the erstwhile aviation magnate Vijay Mallya has left the country without repaying an estimated $1.3 billion in debts to over a dozen banks.

A group of over 150 scientists, including famed British cosmologist Stephen Hawking, have come out in support of the campaign for the U.K. to stay in the EU.

Nearly two dozen kids, aged 8 to 19, have accused the U.S. government and President Barack Obama of failing to do enough to prevent the harmful impact of climate change.

The country’s largest agricultural water district misled investors to promote investment in a $77 million bond issue in 2012.

Reinvigorated by the plunging costs of photovoltaic panels, the solar power industry is expected to add 16 gigawatts of new projects this year.

The company has been hit hard by a global drop in commodity prices and the German government’s shift toward renewable energy.

The company, founded in 2000, aims to send its first paying passengers to space as soon as 2018, Bezos said Tuesday.

A Greenpeace investigation revealed that residents living in areas contaminated by the nuclear disaster are eating food exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama will likely agree Thursday on a reduction of methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

The lawsuit seeks $34 billion in damages from U.S. businessmen and companies for supporting the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The simulation uses a code named “gevolution,” which takes into account the rotation of space-time and amplitude of gravitational waves.

The six-year high data point suggests that strong demand within the eurozone may be offsetting cooling demand in emerging markets.

The $500 million deposited into the United Nations-backed fund is the first tranche of the $3 billion the U.S. pledged in 2014.

The new data, released Tuesday, showed exports fell to their lowest in nearly seven years, while imports plunged about 14 percent.

President Joko Widodo made the comments at a summit in Jakarta that is being attended by representatives of 57 nations.

The device, which utilizes five qubits — the quantum computing equivalent of bits — could herald the end of traditional encryption schemes.

The findings of a new study suggest that the Chinese government may have “under-promised and over-delivered” on emissions reduction.

200,000 party members were given “light punishment,” while 82,000 received “heavy punishment,” a graft watchdog said.

Tomlinson invented direct email messages between users on different machines on the internet's predecessor ARPANET.

The complaint, filed Thursday, challenges measures that increase fees on certain categories of temporary work visas for the United States.

After a year in space, the American astronaut returned two inches taller and slightly younger than he would have been if he had remained earthbound.

The law, passed in the Punjab province, was termed “un-Islamic” by a religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam.

In February, the U.S. economy is expected to have added 190,000 jobs — up from a preliminary reading of 151,000 in January.

The National People’s Congress, China’s rubber-stamp legislature, will begin its 10-day annual session in the capital Saturday.

For the first time ever, scientists have detected a recurring Fast Radio Burst, calling into question all existing theories about how these enigmatic signals are produced.

During Wednesday’s 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which struck 500 miles from Padang in West Sumatra province, none of the country's 22 tsunami warning buoys were working.

In new guidelines released Thursday, British prosecutors have sought to make it a criminal offense to set up fake social media profiles to post damaging or indecent material online.