Drew Angerer/Getty Images DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung Samsung blasted past expectations with a record second-quarter operati...
Mark Ralston/AFPA Chinese police chief is alleged to have had at least 192 houses and a fake identity card, state media said, the latest in a number ...
en.wikipedia.orgThe former head of Iran's central bank, Tahmasb Mazaheri, has been found in possession of a cheque worth 54 million euros ($70 millio...
AFP/Tang Prize FoundationOne of Taiwan's richest men on Monday launched what has been widely touted as the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and i...
Wikimedia CommonsUntil recently, the most high-profile conflict in Rio de Janeiro's favelas has been between rival gangs fighting turf wars: now it i...
Kim Jae-Hwan/AFPThe US boss of a joint venture run by North Korea and the Unification Church of South Korea said Tuesday he has been granted rare hon...
Image: Flickr; Bird: Twitter133,000 gigabytes worth of tweets currently takes days to search, but The Library of Congress is nonetheless trying to ar...
The EconomistChina wants more nuclear plants than anyone else. Will it build them safely? EARLIER this month work began at a big construction site in...
AFPAround 600 cats stuffed into wooden crates and destined for dinner plates in southern China were rescued by animal protection volunteers after a t...
AP Google executive Eric Schmidt and former Governor Bill Richardson at a computer lab at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang“AS THE world becomes in...
Flickr/WorldizenA court in Nepal has jailed members of a mob who burned alive a 40-year-old woman after accusing her of casting black magic spells in...
AFPGerard Depardieu has failed to turn up to face drunk driving charges as his row with the government over taxes rumbles on. Depardieu, whose flight...
