A Chinese company is undertaking the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan.

British hostage Peter Moore has been freed after being held captive in Iraq since May 2007, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced Wednesday.

Russia is considering a project to launch a spaceship to try to divert a large asteroid from hitting Earth after [...]

The Wall Street Journal graphically shows the Galleon insider trading case involving Raj Rajantaram.

Forbes columnist takes on ‘luxury retailing’ in the post consumer crisis world.

Internet-messaging service Twitter Inc. was hit by a cyber attack Thursday night that temporarily steered visitors to a Web site with an anti-American message from a group calling itself the “Iranian [...]

Universities that have added “green” majors to their undergraduate programs are seeing the courses fill up at a fast rate. Rob Melnick of Arizona State University: “There’s a great perception that there’s a sweet spot with energy to do good and do well, and it appears to be the place of job growth.”

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake [...]

Amazon recently announced that its Kindle Device is the best selling gift on the store. Also, for the first time in history at Amazon, e-book sales for the Kindle overtook regular book sales.

Russia warns that it will reduce fuel supplies to Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary due to demands by Ukraine for higher transit [...]

Many believe that the wealthy have a lock on US politics, and that is blocking the ability to do anything about urgent problems like health care, climate change, financial reform, and of course the low-wage, everything-to-the-top structure of jobs. Their top priority for 2010 is getting corporate money out of politics.

Congressman Dennis [...]

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow caught Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on seemingly arguing that his state’s 31 percent African-American population puts him at a disadvantage, and that it’s a good reason not to support healthcare reform.

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme and demonstrated its potential ability [...]

Today is Christmas Day.

The sale of virtual items in online games and social networks is booming.

In an unequivocal rebuke to those pursuing political reforms, a Chinese court on Friday sentenced one of the country’s best-known dissidents to 11 years in prison for subversion. The dissident, Liu Xiaobo, a former literature professor and a dogged critic [...]