CHINA

A gasoline bomb set off by a former bank cashier in the north-western province of Gansu in China killed dozens of people on Friday.

iPad 2 and iPhone 4 may not be available in time to meet the demand of Apple’s customer in the second quarter of the year, due to a shortage of part and labor.

Global equity markets, commodities and currencies continue to move lower on the heels of concerns about Greece

Cannes 2011: Italian Director, Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the Palme d'Honneur, a lifetime achievement award.

U.S. stocks declined in early trade on Thursday as disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems and lower commodity prices weighed.

Thursday's London Silver Fix set the white metal's price at $32.50 per ounce, nearly $7 lower than a day earlier and 33% below the 31-year high of $48.70 set on April 28. [Silver] is still in an uptrend, despite the sharp sell-off reckons Mary Ann Bartels, head of US technical and market analysis at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who said yesterday silver could hit $50 per ounce by the end of the year.

Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasoul, in his first visit to China since he took office in January, said in Beijing on Wednesday that the elimination of Osama bin Laden was ‘positive’ and will make Afghanistan's transition process easier.

In a shocking report, evidence about child abduction by family planning officials in China for the purpose of oversees adoption has raised questions on the current human-rights situations of the country.

The Chinese economy may be in trouble and the stock market seems to acknowledge the dangers.

Anish Kapoor had dedicated his new monumental art piece 'Leviathan' to Chinese artist Ai Weiwie, who was is custody by Chinese authorities for unspecified crimes.

Gold rallied to one-week highs at $1526 per ounce in Wednesday morning trade - a gain of 4.3% from last Friday's low - before falling back as world stock markets also cut their rally. Silver has now regained a third of its losses since falling over 30% from a 31-year peak of $48.70 at the end of April.

Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform in El Paso, Texas

China and the United States reached agreement to collaborate closely in the Asia-Pacific region after a two-day strategic and economic dialogue in Washington D.C. on Tuesday.

Google decided to ratchet up excitement around the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which runs its tablet specific OS Android 3.0, by giving it for free to 5,000 attendees at the Google I/O conference and incurring about $499 per piece or $2.5 million in total.

GM has announced that it will invest $2 billion in two years from now, creating or retaining 4,000 jobs.

The Got Talent franchise is a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company.

The U.S. got its most wanted criminal when U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden but the troops left behind a key piece of secret technology they tried to destroy in the frantic, tense minutes when they raided the al-Qaeda leader's northern Pakistan compound: a Stealth Helicopter.

Governments, or nowadays central banks, are traditionally the largest holders of gold. And for most of the past two decades, central banks have been net sellers of gold. But since 2010, central banks are net buyers again, because central banks of emerging market economies are aiming to diversify their ever growing currency reserves and reach a similar level in gold reserves as the club of old industrial economies.

Giant Chinese man can’t find fitting shoes, dreams of normal life.

A Pakistani official said on Tuesday the government may let very interested Chinese officials see the remains of a secret U.S. stealth helicopter which was abandoned and mostly destroyed during a U.S. Special Forces raid of Osama bin Laden's compound last week.

When the United States' elite Navy SEAL Team Six unit killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, the world wondered how he hid, seemingly out in the open, for so long.