A U.S. judge rejected Facebook Inc's proposed legal settlement to resolve allegations that the social networking company violated its members' rights through the its 'Sponsored Stories' advertising fe

The Supreme Court will hear final arguments in a landmark case over drug patents that could change the rules for the country's healthcare sector and potentially curb its global role as a supplier of c

Japan's struggling TV maker Sharp Corp will deliver an asset appraisal report to its banks in September that they will use to judge which business the unprofitable company should sell in return for fi

Nine of the world's top 10 players, including French Open champion Maria Sharapova, will compete in next month's Pan Pacific Open.

World number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus leads the field for th

A Chinese court on Monday sentenced Gu Kailai, wife of ousted politician Bo Xilai, to death with a two-year reprieve for murdering a British businessman, witnesses to the closed-door hearing said, in

Nasa on Friday unveiled plans for its Mars rover Curiosity’s first road trip, part of a two-year quest to determine if the planet most like earth could ever have hosted microbial life, scientists said.

A combination of power blackouts, uncertain tax rules and contracts that are not honoured make India a difficult place to do business, a senior Dell Inc executive said on Friday in unusually blunt com

Oracle Corp agreed to pay a $2 million fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that an India subsidiary secretly set aside money used to make unauthorised payments to phony vend

As India faces the prospect of being the first BRICS country to lose its investment-grade credit rating, investors have already delivered their verdict: to them, the country already trades at 'junk' w

Gold demand in India, the world's top consumer, is likely to fall by a fifth in the second half of 2012 from a year ago on higher prices and as weak monsoon rains hurt incomes of rural households, a s