Director general of the Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel has stepped down on Tuesday after serving the network for eight years, the channel announced.
Quanta Computer Inc, the world's largest PC contract maker, said on Wednesday that employees at its Taiwan production line number less than 2,000, down from about 3,000 in the first half, following a decline in client orders.
Just a few weeks before Apple is said to be releasing its most anticipated iPhone 5, which could halt Samsung’s aggravating success with the Galaxy Line, the South Korean firm is considering legal action to ban the sales of the upcoming iPhone.
The Canadian government looked set to legislate Air Canada's flight attendants back to work if last-ditch contract talks break down, because of concern that a strike would damage a still-fragile economy.
Viewership for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards fell 8 percent from last year to just over 12 million Americans who watched Jane Lynch host the heavily promoted TV show that drew mixed critical reviews.
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Monday as renewed fears of a Greek debt default prompted investors to book some of last week's gains and turn to toward the safety of U.S. government debt.
U.S. stock index futures fell sharply on Monday as renewed fears of a Greek debt default prompted investors to book some of last week's gains and turn to safer assets such as gold.
The Indian rupee fell on Monday tracking the euro's losses and weak domestic equities as heightened worries over European debt crisis pushing investors to cut holdings in riskier assets.
UBS Chief Executive Oswald Gruebel is not considering stepping down in the wake of the crisis provoked by a London trader suspected of causing a $2 billion loss for the bank, he told Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag on Sunday.
Fewer newborn babies in China are dying today when compared to 1996, researchers found. A study shows that newborn deaths fell 62 percent, as it went from 24.7 per 1,000 live births in 1996 to 9.3 in 2008.
Southern California unions and supermarket operators will negotiate through the weekend in a last-ditch bid to end an escalating Southern California supermarket labor dispute that could usher in the r1vegion's first grocery strike since 2003.
Stocks fell on Wednesday as optimism faded over comments about possible new euro zone bonds to help ease the region's debt crisis, and lackluster data on U.S. retail sales gave investors pause.
JPMorgan Chase & Co's trading revenue is running 30 percent lower this quarter than the previous period, while investment banking fees are likely to fall by about 50 percent, a senior executive said on Tuesday.
Animal Planking is picturing animals that are lying down or resting and is similar to planking or the lying down game. It refers to mimicking a wooden plank.
The future of the $450-billion jobs stimulus looked bleak after President Barack Obama unveiled a plan to raise taxes, reduce exemptions and repeal various oil subsidies in order to pay for the package.
Top girls basketball prospect Tayshana Murphy was gunned down in her Harlem apartment on Sunday in an incident family members say is a case of mistaken identity. There has been no arrest as of Sunday.
Stock futures pointed to sharp falls for equities on Monday after tumbling in the previous session following the resignation of a top official at the European Central Bank, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 down 1.6 to 1.9 percent.
Three days after she was given the pink slip by Yahoo, Carol Bartz has resigned from the company's board as well on Friday.
Now, the Internet craze of lying and perching in unusual places and then taking a photo of yourself just took a more dangerous twist in the form of Batmanning - hanging upside down from raised surfaces by your feet.
Ashton Kutcher apparently went naked in a segment taped for the season premiere of DeGeneres' talk show on Monday.
With quarterback Peyton Manning sidelined for the foreseeable future after undergoing neck surgery this week, his Indianapolis Colts team mates have adopted their traditional rallying cry of 'next man up'.
Stock index futures fell on Friday as investors remained skeptical about how much of President Barack Obama's $447 billion proposal to generate U.S. jobs would make it through Congress.
