What China's Xi Jinping wants from Europe When the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy welcomes Xi Jinping to Brussels on Monday, it will be the first time a Chinese president has visited European Union headquarters.
But the trip isn't about making history -- it's about closing business deals with European firm...
2014-03-31
Little time left to turn down the world's heat, U.N. says Your forecast for the next century: Hotter, drier and hungrier, and the chance to turn down the thermostat is slipping away.
That's the latest conclusion from the United Nations, which urged governments to address the "increasingly clear" threats posed by a warming climate befor...
2014-03-27
Zuckerberg goes shopping: Facebook's top 10 purchases Facebook announced Tuesday that it plans to buy virtual reality firm Oculus VR for $2 billion.
It's the latest high-profile acquisition during the for the social network giant during its 10-year existence. Some of those near-50 tech startups have been bought for their technology...
2014-03-27
Lost at sea: The 'unspeakable challenge' for Flight 370 families When TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island in 1996, it took more than a year to recover the bodies of all 230 passengers and crew.
After suicide hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center in 2001, it took a decade or more for investigators to identify the fragmentary remains o...
2014-03-26
Egypt: Trial of 683 Muslim Brotherhood supporters adjourned The case against the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohammed Badie and 682 other supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsy was adjourned Tuesday at a Egyptian court until next month, defense lawyer Gamal Abdel Meguid said.
It comes a day after the same court sentenced ...
2014-03-26
Terror after landslide: 'Can you tell me what happened?' There was little in the way of a warning before the rain-saturated ground in Washington's Cascade Mountains gave way, sending a wall of mud through a portion of the towns of Oso and Darrington.
With as many as 24 dead and up to 176 people unaccounted for in the massive landslide...
2014-03-20
Western banks lend billions to Russia Russian oligarchs, banks and corporations have been borrowing heavily from the West, underscoring the risks for both sides in escalating the Ukraine crisis.
According to Russia's central bank, total foreign debt stood at $732 billion at the end of 2013, up by nearly $200 billion...
2014-03-20
Objects spotted in Indian Ocean may be debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Two objects spotted in the southern Indian Ocean may be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian authorities said Thursday, fueling hopes of a breakthrough in an international search of unprecedented scale.
The objects are indistinct but of "reasonable si...
2014-03-11
More trouble for Boeing's Dreamliner Boeing's Dreamliner has been a big success for the manufacturer, racking more than $200 billion in sales. But the fuel-efficient, lightweight jet continues to be hit by problems.
On Friday Boeing announced that a manufacturing problem had cause hairline cracks in the wings of so...
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