Strong policies are urgently needed to increase economic growth and reduce the risk of a double-dip recession in the developed world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its revised World Economic Outlook. The IMF also decreased its 2011 global GDP growth forecast to 4 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from the June 2011 forecast.
A group of 30 scientists in the United Kingdom, lead by Sir David Attenborough and prominent scientist Richard Dawkins, have called for the outlawing of teaching creationism in school science lessons, accusing religious fundamentalists for portraying it as scientific theory in publicly funded schools.
Leading British polar scientists charge the Times Atlas of the World was wrong to state that climate change had forced it to redraw its map of Greenland.
The recently released 2011 Times Atlas grossly exaggerates the amount of ice loss in Greenland, according to researchers at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University.
A defunct NASA satellite, ready to fall back to Earth, will make its final plunge on Friday, Sept. 23, though there is absolutely no idea as to where exactly it would fall, according to the U.S. space agency.
A defunct NASA satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 23, according to the U.S. space agency.
Miss Universe Scandal: The Miss Universe Organization is investigating claims that Lopes falsified documents during the Miss Angola UK pageant earlier this year. The English competition helped her reach the Miss Universe pageant held in Brazil this month.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautioned Friday that social unrest in the United States could ensue if action is not taken by policy makers to create jobs and lower the U.S.'s high 9.1 percent unemployment rate.
Kweku Adoboli has been charged with fraud and false accounting by London police in connection with unauthorized trades at UBS that caused the bank a $2 billion loss. Adoboli has also reportedly admitted to the bank he caused the losses. His father, a retired United Nations employee living in Ghana, said his son made a mistake.
Arrested at his UBS trading desk, rogue trader Kweku Adoboli allegedly told the bank about his unauthorized trading that resulted in a nearly $2 billion loss.
Colleagues at UBS called Kweku Adoboli, the trader arrested in connected with a $2 billion loss due to unauthorized trading at the bank, up and coming and someone who worked hard...played quite hard too. Adoboli, 31, was arrested on Thursday by London police on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position and being held in custody at Bishopsgate police station. A graduate of Nottingham University who was born in Ghana, Adoboli studied computer science in college and went to work at UB...
Adobe Flash has finally come to Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, not directly supported but just that the new app tools will be able to export Flash content as an HTML5-supporting format.
Kweku Adoboli, the 31-year-old London man accused as the rogue trader who cost Swiss banking giant UBS an estimated loss of $2 billion, is a "well-dressed quiet man" of African origin who wasn't the "tidiest" but is very "well spoken," according to a former landlord.
The number of breast and cervical cancer fatalities have skyrocketed in developing nations in the last three decades, while they have fallen in wealthier countries, according to an analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
In January 1982, the UK government reported that about 3.07 million Britons were out of work, or about 1 out of 8 adults. Yet while the current unemployment picture looks very grim indeed, it pales in comparison to what Britain faced 30 years ago.
The 68th annual Venice Film Festival closed on Saturday with the presentation of the Golden Lion awards. The event, as well as the awards, celebrated the world of cinema and art. The complete list of winners follows.
Grosvenor Park is back. The company that produced The Hurt Locker and Righteous Kill, has lined up $100 million in financing that it intends to deploy over the next year.
A defunct NASA satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere by early October, sparking concerns that some debris might shower down on populated areas.
By covering community-based weight loss programs for people who are at risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, Medicare could save up to $15 billion in the next decade.
Tropical Storm Maria is on path to hit the Lesser Antilles tonight before heading across the northeastern Caribbean towards the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Here are the reason why iPhone 5 may suffer against Samsung Galaxy S2.
Almost six years after ceasing operations, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a seven-ton research satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in late September or early October 2011.
