Palash Ghosh

The U.K. maintains a pristine AAA credit rating (which allows it to borrow money on international money markets pretty cheaply),

Perhaps the downgrade was not too much of a surprise.

The 4.78 percent plunge suffered by the S&P 500 index was its worst one-day drop since February 2009 and one of the worst losses (on a percentage basis) of the past 80 years.

Reportedly, Mubashir?s wife, Musarrat, who witnessed the murders, had called the police.

The attacks ? the only time nuclear weapons have ever been used in world history to date ? killed tens of thousands of people and shocked the planet with the scale of their destruction.

Traders appear to be focusing on the European debt crisis, which is reaching emergency levels.

Parts of China?s eastern coast have been placed on alert as severe typhoon Muifa approaches the Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, close to Shanghai.

16.6 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 are unemployed

The company?s shares fell by as much as 14 percent in London trading at one point

Overseas stocks are plunging following the devastating sell-off in the U.S. Thursday, ahead of a crucial July jobs report out of Washington.

?The damage this week is more than last week ? translation, more damage from economic fears than debt fears.?

U.S. stocks plummeted Thursday, following a similarly huge sell-off in Europe, on growing fears that the global economy is sinking into a recession, ahead of worries about tomorrow?s July jobs report.

The latest findings suggest signs of water in lower latitudes of Mars. Previously, it was known that water (in the form of ice) existed at the poles of the planet.

At one Martian crater, McEwen said, about a thousand ?water flows? were identified.

The U.S. sell-off follows even greater declines in Europe.

After a spectacular MVP season in 1968, Morall performed poorly in the Super Bowl ? among other things, he threw three interceptions.

Thousands of civilians were fleeing the city, a bastion of protest surrounded by a ring of steel of troops with tanks and heavy weapons

Minister Dipu Moni accused The Economist of waging a ?smear campaign? against the Dhaka government.

It is not known where she has gone for surgery

According to reports, more than 600,000 homeless Haitians ? driven out of their residences by last year?s devastating earthquake -- are in makeshift camps ahead of Emily?s arrival.

The development comes only one month after she took over as IMF boss, succeeding Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was forced to resign in wake of his sexual assault trial in New York City.

Fans and teammates flocked to the hospital in Matsumoto, a town about 110 miles northwest of Tokyo, to pay tribute to the fallen star.

Experts are baffled by the declines in violent crimes in the U.S.

Violent crime in the United States has been falling across the board for at least the past five or six years.

The move is a part of the bank?s comprehensive plan to refocus its operations in profitable areas and away from stagnating business lines in the developed world.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, aged 31, is the king of Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas. He was born February 21, 1980 (when Obama was already in college).

Norris, who as recently as last week was leading popularity polls, came under enormous pressure to extinguish his bid for the presidency.

Corporations unveiled 66,414 planned job cuts last month, up a sharp 60.3 percent from 41,432 in June.

The financial problems in Rome in the early part of the third century AD stemmed from a military that was getting too large and expensive (one of the pitfalls of carving a huge empire that became too unwieldy.