A 40-minute, mile-wide tornado that swooped down the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon has killed 51 people. Almost half of the fatalities were children. Officials expect the death toll to rise.
Desperate to gain a foothold in India, one of the world's fastest growing population and urbanizing economies, Apple Inc has been adjusting its marketing strategy in that country, even tweaking its notoriously high prices to gain market share.
Australia's state government of Queensland has laid down a new set of changes to securing and renewing driver licenses for old-timer and new entrant drivers.
Bill Gates is richest man in the world again since 2007 with a personal net wealth of $72.2 billion according to Bloomberg. He snatched the title from former No. 1 Mexican mobile phone mogul Carlos Slim.
Despite the global gold demand trade decelerated in the first quarter of 2013 compared from the year ago, the actual exchange of gold among small-time investors in the Middle East, India, and China was very much alive through jewellery in the same period.
For the past ten years, in what could be America's most sensitive health topic to date, a report has disclosed that the number of mental health cases in the world's freest economy is rising.
Experts and researchers working with marine mammals are now being advised to wear protective suits and gear as the dreaded influenza A H1N1 subtype virus has mutated and had been detected present and active in elephant seals off the coast of central California.
Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, is renewing her criticism of the federal government's policies, hitting it for incurring debt levels that are unsustainable and for treating the mining industry like an ATM.
A low-cost diarrhoea vaccine for children has been developed by India, enabling parents all over the world to avail of a cheaper alternative medicine that could cure and save their children from the deadly Rotavirus.
China now has at least two subtypes of the Influenza A viruses lurking and circulating around its perimeters. And as more members of the poultry and fowls industry get culled, not only food sales get affected but also sales of badminton's shuttlecocks and apparel's down jackets.
If you can't remember the definition of stupidity, events this week will refresh your memory. One popular definition of stupidity is repeating the same behaviour but expecting a different result, like pushing on a door that opens by pulling. A more current and topical one would be cutting interest rates 511 times in six years in order to raise growth and/or lower the unemployment rate.
While China continues to wrestle H7N9 which had so far claimed 35 lives, it has succumbed to yet another subtype of the Influenza A viruses, this time the H5N1. The country had reported an outbreak in its southern part Tibet, where a child has died and 64 other children remain infected.
Lakshimi Mittal, owner of the world's largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal, has urged Europe to erect trade barriers to protect its manufacturers, claiming the future of the European Union manufacturing depended on politicians helping the industry face what he said was unfair competition from China, reported the Financial Times on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia added six new cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus in its Eastern Province, where two of those infected were hospital healthcare workers, immediately creating anxieties that hospitals are no longer even safe places to go to in times of medical distress.
France, a nation where people mostly spend their free time visiting museums and attending art events, wants to tax smartphones and tablets manufacturers, specifically Apple, to fund its cultural passion.
Three weeks after and more than 1,000 lives lost, Bangladesh's more than three million garments workers scored a victory when major international clothing retailers such as Zara and H&M, among others, agreed to fund safety upgrades in the country's factories where they source their products.
Apple has recorded a modest 6.7 growth for the first quarter of 2013 making it the lowest ever level since the iPhone's introduction in 2007. Of the total 216 million global shipments made during the period, 76.6 percent was accounted to Android devices of which Samsung is reportedly the market's top manufacturer.
The death toll due to the new SARS-like coronavirus has reached 15 lives in Saudi Arabia. France, on the other hand, has reported its second infection which was believed to have contracted through human-to-human transmission.
It took factories to collapse and more than 1,000 lives dead before Bangladesh even considered hiking the minimum wage pay of its more than three million garment workers. Too late a hero, skeptics said.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the communities and residents of Iran's Bashagard City following the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck off Saturday, killing one child and injuring at least 20 others.
Countries located in the Northern Hemisphere may well heave a sigh of relief as weather forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday the weather phenomenon twins El Niño and La Niña are less likely to develop through the late summer and towards the winter.
It's taken a while, but the RBA has joined the international currency war by cutting official interest rates to an all-time low. We're not sure whether it will have the desired effect or not. Chances are we'll need further interest rate cuts to really see the dollar fall to a point where it starts to relieve pressure on various dollar sensitive industries.
Even though China saw inflation speed up vaguely in April, it remained subdued, thereby making it possible for the government to introduce measures aimed at fostering the economy. Concerns have been recently raised over the strength of the economic recovery and the state of the world's second economy.
Public life bumbles along under a combination of false pretences and self-imposed delusions.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, is once again under the IMF scanner, as officials of the Washington-based financial institution will arrive to review UK economic growth. With additional warnings to recall austerity drive and reinstate the 'lost decade of growth,' the Trades Union Congress (TUC) finds competent support to drive home their arguments.
Australians planning to go to a holiday rendezvous ought to take extra precautions in their online booking activities as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Thursday disclosed at least some $250,000 worth in Internet scams have been lost in 2013 alone.
On Wednesday, French health authorities confirmed a 65-year-old local has contracted the deadly new SARS-like novel coronavirus, the country's first infected case.
Communities and residents in Western Australia have been advised to brace themselves and take cover for a severe weather disturbance over the next 24 hours.
Anxiety over the possible spillover to humans of the bird flu strain H7N9 grew larger after a study noted that pigs that caught the flu were likewise growing in numbers.
Despite a growing number of deaths, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said there was no need yet to impose a travel ban to Saudi Arabia in light of the new SARS-like novel coronavirus now gripping the country.
