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Chinese telecom networks solutions provider Huawei Technologies obtained a federal court order prohibiting Motorola Solutions (MSI) from passing on confidential information to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).

Peru has suspended diplomatic ties with Libya, condemning Gaddafi regime's use of force against anti-government civilian demonstrators.

Russia's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be in focus as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets European Union leaders on Thursday, but business leaders and trade officials from the U.S., EU and the WTO think Russia's entry is going to be difficult, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

A senior Libyan official who left the Gaddafi camp has said the embattled leader will either commit suicide or will get killed and that the people's revolution is days, if not hours, away from victory.

Gaddafi's numerous utterances on Tuesday betrayed borderline mania all serious dictatorships are imbued with.

Demand for gold and silver will remain high in 2011 owing to growth in physical demand and continued investor appetite, according to a Daily Markets analysis. It says the outlook for the precious metals remains bullish.

Britain showed a bigger than expected seasonal surplus on its January public sector net borrowing measure, after unusually strong annual growth in income tax receipts, official data showed on Tuesday.

At a time when the Middle East political tensions increasingly weigh on global oil markets, Russia has made significant advances at the expense of the traditional Gulf-Arab oil exporters.

Officials from China and Taiwan gathered in the Taiwanese city of Chungli on Tuesday to sort out contentious issues in the comprehensive Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which was signed in June last year.

U.S. stocks recorded solid performance in the second half of the last year though the early part of the year was jittery. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11 percent, the Nasdaq Composite gained 17 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 13 percent. Where do U.S. stocks go from here? There are analysts who think stocks are poised to show further gains this year.

As his four-decade rule of Libya hung by a thread, Moammar Gaddafi appeared on state television on Tuesday, local time, to kill rumors that he has left the country.

Thailand's economy emerged from a brief recessionary spell in the fourth quarter, recording 1.2 percent growth in gross domestic product.

Activity in the euro zone's private sector grew faster than expected this month, particularly in the bloc's factories, but the upturn is driving prices higher, business surveys showed on Monday.

China threw its weight around at G-20 negotiations to exclude from the final communiqué references to 'foreign exchange reserves' and 'fiscal deficit' as possible causes of global economic imbalances.

Even as speculation swirled over the critical illness, and possibly death, of the deposed ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the interim government of Tunisia has asked Saudi Arabia to extradite him.

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who has been leading the campaign to quell the popular uprising that has reportedly led to the fleeing of his father, has been wounded in gunfire, Muslim Brotherhood has said citing unofficial reports. The report also says Gaddafi, his wife and daughter have fled the country.

Thousands of protesters chanting anti-government slogans marched through Bahraini city of Sitra on Friday as they buried comrades killed in the government's crackdown on demonstrations which erupted this week.

Retail sales in the United Kingdom grew 1.9 percent in January compared with December and 5.3 per cent on an annual basis, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Friday.

E-commerce retail sales in the fourth quarter of 2010 rose a seasonally adjusted 16.1 percent, compared to the same period a year before, IHS Global Insight said in a report.

Malaysia and India, two of emerging Asia's robust economies, signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) on Friday, aiming to boost bilateral trade to the tune of $15 billion by 2015.

If Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) plans succeed, there will soon be a humanoid robot in the International Space Station. The Twitter-using humanoid will be talking companions to the astronauts and will manage the outpost when the human inhabitants of the station are asleep.

Even as precious metal investors seem to be taken in by the superior performance of silver over gold, some analysts have raised the voice of caution, saying gold will soon outperform silver.

The overall consumer price inflation in the U.S. rose 0.4 percent in January on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on Thursday. The rise in inflation was mainly driven by increases in energy, commodities and food prices, the report said.

Emerging market equities, which have surprisingly underperformed so far this year, will bounce back and the total return from emerging equities will eclipse those from developed market equities in 2011, according to an analyst.

The 'Provisions on News Information Services', which was issued in 2005, states that the purpose of news websites is not to inform the public of the facts, but instead to “serve socialism” and to “safeguard the nation’s interests and the public interest.”

The Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8 percent in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said on Wednesday.

Legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong, who won the coveted Tour de France a record seven consecutive years, has said he's retiring from the sport.

About 200 anti-government protesters demanding the release of a human rights activist clashed with police on Wednesday in Libya's coastal city of Benghazi, according to reports.

The projection for four-quarter growth is weaker than in November for much of 2011, following the weak data around the turn of the year.