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Two monthly surveys point to increased industrial activity in the world's second-largest economy, though one failed to meet its forecast.

India’s manufacturing sector expanded at a slower rate to a three month low in January, as volume of new export orders eased from the previous month.

Online Resources Corporation, JDS Uniphase Corp, Ericsson, and Nokia Corporation are among Thursday's pre-market movers.

Japan's manufacturing activity slowed in January, but it did so at the slowest pace in four months as a weaker yen helped exports.

An unidentified man was holding a young boy hostage in Alabama Wednesday morning, 13 hours after abducting him from a school bus.

Japan’s retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.4 percent in December in comparison to the same period last year, but lower than the 1.3 percent growth cloaked in November.

South Korea’s industrial production rose 1.0 percent in December from 2.6 percent in the previous month.

Borneo wildlife officials have found 10 dead endangered elephants with their tusks intact and no gunshot wounds.

A domestic passenger plane crashed in bad weather near Kazakhstan's commercial capital of Almaty Tuesday, killing 22 people.

Asia's third-largest economy cut key interest rates as it tries to strike a balance between inflation and lending.

Sony Corporation, ASML Holding, Staples Inc, Transocean, Century Aluminum, LRR Energy, Cellcom Israel Ltd and NICE Systems are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Monday

Board says one of the six accused sex predators and killers in the infamous Delhi gang-rape case is a minor.

It only took four days for Twitter’s new video sharing application, Vine, to become a porn-sharing application.

North Korea ramped up its warlike bluster over U.N. sanctions Sunday, threatening strong retaliation, state media reported.

Dozens of hikers trapped by high water from heavy rains in an Arizona canyon were rescued Saturday, authorities said.

A fire allegedly triggered by a pyrotechnics show in a nightclub in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria has killed at least 200 people, Sunday, local media reported.

Socketeq has come with a solution that can fully port Android on a Windows kernel natively, enabling the user to enjoy Android without having to go through the dual-booting or virtualization.

Thousands of people participated in a rally, holding signs and banners against gun violence and supporting President Obama’s gun control plan Saturday.

Tempur-Pedic International Inc, ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc, STMicroelectronics N.V., Silicon Graphics International, Select Comfort Corp, BG Medicine Inc, Molycorp Inc, Nokia Corporation are among the companies whose shares are moving in the pre-market trading Friday.

North Korea issued another warning Friday, this time to South Korea against participating in the U.N. sanctions. This follows warnings to the U.S. that it will go ahead with high level nuclear and missile tests after the U.N. expanded the sanctions over a rocket launch last month.

U.S. stock index futures point to a higher open Friday ahead of the Census Bureau's new home sales data. Asian Markets traded in the red, while European shares traded higher.

Spain’s unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2012 jumped to a record high of 26 percent, data released by the National Statistics Institute showed Thursday.

A 93-year old Kansas City man allegedly stabbed his 95-year-old wife to death before attempting suicide Wednesday, police said.

Robert Pimentel has been charged with eight counts of continuous sexual abuse and seven counts of lewd acts.

The Justice JS Verma committee, set up to propose amendments to existing Indian laws relating to crime against women.

The British prime minister said he would hold a referendum on leaving the EU if his party wins in 2015.

A Pennsylvania ex-pastor convicted for murdering his second wife in 2008 now faces trial on whether he killed his first wife too.

A Chinese military officer warned Australia not to side with the U.S. and Japan if the East China Sea conflict leads to war.

Israelis began voting Tuesday in the parliamentary elections that is widely expected to give a third term to the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.