Panama City, Aug. 15: Faced with withering Republican criticism of his defense of the right of Muslims to build a community centre and mosque near the Ground Zero, the American President, Mr Barack Ob

Shanghai, Aug. 13: In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create its own government-controlled search engine.

The

NEW YORK, Aug. 9: A new study finds that girls are more likely today than in the past to start developing breasts by age seven or eight. The research is just the latest in a flood of reports over th

New York, Aug. 8: She had so much. A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Ms Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investmen

Aug. 7: Mr Mark V. Hurd, who turned Hewlett-Packard into the world’s largest technology company on the back of fierce fiscal discipline, has been ousted from his post for the lowliest of corporate off

Aug. 1: Bill and Hillary Clinton have tried to shield their daughter, Chelsea, from the gaze of the public for most of her life. But on her wedding day on Saturday, even as the Clintons sought to shr

Aug. 2: The Anhui Salt Industry Corporation is a state-owned company that has 11,000 employees, access to government salt mines and a Communist Party boss. Now it has swaggered into a new line of busi

July 29: States are putting hundreds of thousands of people directly into jobs through programmes reminiscent of the more ambitious work projects of the Great Depression. The opportunity to simultane

New York/Washington, July 26: Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harboured strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand,

New York/Washington, July 26: US military field reports made public on Sunday contain firsthand accounts of American anger at Pakistan’s unwillingness to confront insurgents who launched attacks near