China's first aircraft carrier -- which attracted worldwide attention among fears that the second-largest economic powerhouse in the world is rapidly bolstering its military powers -- set sail on Wednesday for its sea trial.
Arsenal are close to selling Samir Nasri to Manchester City, but have risked naming both Nasri and Cesc Fabregas in their Champions League squad for the qualifier against Udinese.
HSBC is selling its U.S. credit card arm to Capital One Financial Corp in a $32.7 billion deal as Europe's top bank streamlines its mammoth operations.
Syrian forces killed at least 30 people and moved into a town near the Turkish border on Tuesday, an activist group said, even as Turkey's foreign minister pressed President Bashar al-Assad to halt assaults on protests against his rule.
Despite the S&P downgrade of the United States, Russia announced that it has no plans to make an immediate change to its U.S. dollar-denominated gold or foreign exchange reserves, a senior Russian bank official has confirmed.
The International Space Station will be operational until 2020s as NASA, Roscosmos, and partners in Japan, Europe, and Canada have reached consensus regarding the matter. "The international partners have been discussing extending the mission through 2028. At this point, there's no reason we wouldn't do that, said NASA spokesperson Joshua Buck.
McDonald's Corp reported a better-than-expected 5.1 percent rise in global July sales at established restaurants on Monday, as it takes share from rivals with low-priced food and new drinks.
A judge Monday refused to release former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from police detention, increasing political tension around her trial on a charge of abuse of office.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pressed on with a tank onslaught against a city on Monday, but was plunged deeper into international isolation by Arab neighbours who denounced his violent crackdown and recalled their envoys from Damascus.
The crises at the heart of the international financial and political system go beyond the debt woes currently gripping the Western world and to the heart of the way the global economy has been run for over two decades.
McDonald's same-store sales rose 5.1 percent in July, the company says, beating internal forecasts. The company continues to outperform competitors globally after the recession.
Agnieszka Radwanska won the biggest hard court title of her career when she upset world number three Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-3 6-4 to win the San Diego Open on Sunday.
The Arctic will be practically ice-free during the summer within three decades, according to the top U.S. ice observer. But, he is quick to add, with climate change, some good comes with the bad.
Activists said the death toll in protests across Syria a day earlier, when tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, had risen to 26.
In the event Monday witnesses a massive sell-off of Treasuries, bond yields would surge.
?We have total confidence in the solidity of the American economy,? Baroin told French radio.
Tolstoy thought unhappy families were unique in their unhappiness.
For more than a century, mysterious crop circles have baffled scientists and farmers with its complex patterns and sophisticated shapes.
A series of solar flares that erupted on the Sun over the last three days have crossed the solar system and hit the Earth's magnetic field on Friday afternoon.
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.
Boeing selects United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket for its spacecraft.
Tens of thousands of people marched across Syria on the first Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, stepping up defiance of President Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown on unrest as his tanks again shelled Hama and massed outside another restive city.
