US President Barack Obama has criticised insurance firms for denying coverage to some and raising rates for their remaining customers.
Israel ‘risking peace talks’ with West Bank building by authorizing the building of 112 new apartments in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Hundreds of people, including many women and children, were killed [...]
Wall Street paid out $20.3 billion in bonuses in 2009, up 17 percent from a year earlier, New York State’s comptroller said, as the financial industry recovered fitfully from a near meltdown.
Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, and a group of 24 venture-capital companies will invest $3.5 billion in U.S. technology companies over the next [...]
US President Barack Obama threatened to fight Wall Street banks with a new proposal to limit financial risk taking, sending stocks and the dollar tumbling. “We should no longer allow banks to stray too far from their central mission of serving their customers,” he said.
Long backlogs of patients injured in the Haiti earthquake [...]
Cyber attacks disclosed by Google and Adobe that may lead Google to quit China highlight a sophisticated type of bespoke cyberspying that could be more widespread than previously thought. A Los Angeles law firm recently reported a cyber attack from China as well, and is representing a company suing China for allegedly stealing its [...]
Today is the first day of a new decade.
WIRED.com takes a look at the greatest gadgets from the past decade. Highlights include Playstation 2 and the Apple Ipod.
Iranian security forces intensified their crackdown on anti-government supporters Tuesday, arresting relatives of the country’s Nobel laureate and the main opposition leader, and limiting the movement of another [...]
Al Qaeda suspects have been arrested in a drug trafficking plot in Africa.
A deep-sea robot has recorded the deepest ever erupting undersea volcano in the Pacific.
Research In Motion, makers of the Blackberry handset, recorded profit growth of 59% in the third quarter, amidst signs that its smartphone device is now popular amongst other segments of [...]
The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit.
A New York Times editorial slammed Goldman Sachs for its role in the financial crisis and said that instead of paying big bonuses to its employees it should make a multibillion-dollar gift to help reduce the US national [...]
