Newsweek discusses how the global middle class is not as stable and liberal as western capitalist enthusiasts hoped they would be.

Stepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online.

The US House of Representatives Thursday approved a $15 billion bill aimed at [...]

Some 100 million Europeans using Microsoft software will be asked to choose among rival Web browsers by mid-May under a deal the company struck to settle antitrust action, the European Union said Tuesday.

Prosecutors seeking to indict five Americans on terrorist charges submitted their case to a Pakistani judge Tuesday, accusing the men of waging war [...]

Surveys indicate that the old age Americans are smoking more marijuana. The rise was most dramatic among 55- to 59-year-olds, whose reported marijuana use more than tripled from 1.6 percent in 2002 to 5.1 percent.

In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks, Macmillan, one of the five largest publishers of trade books and textbooks, is introducing [...]

US President Barack Obama global warming should be called ‘global weirding’.

California is caned three women after they were convicted for adultery under Islamic law, the first time that punishment has been handed out inside the country.

Visual Economics show youVerizon Wireless will allow its subscribers to make Skype calls on nine of its smartphones is [...]

The number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. has dropped by nearly one million, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security. It is the sharpest decline in three decades.

Boredom kills: People who are bored often are more likely to die at an early age, according an article in the International Journal of [...]

Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for hours.

With Haiti in ruins and the needy closer to home bearing the brunt of a sour economy, the transformation of [...]

There are mounting security concerns in Haiti’s earthquake-hit capital as distribution problems continue to hamper getting aid to survivors. Authorities in the Caribbean country said as many as 200,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and and three-quarters of the capital, Port-au-Prince, will need to be rebuilt. Zoom in Haiti’s earthquake in [...]